Enlightenment EMIs

Enlightenment comes at a cost and a good man happily pays it. Enlightenment is a political entity, because without politics there would be no need for enlightenment. Imagine a snow covered forest and deep in the forest you have a well lighted wooden cabin with all the amenities, or a snowy wonderland with warm cottage in which you read about the secrets of the universe, drink coffee and sit in front of the fireplace and read books for leisure. I remember that in childhood when I used to read comics I had seen Phantom have a comfortable tree house deep in the jungle. Enlightenment tells you that all of this can be real but it isn't actually. There is no off the grid. There might be Kundalini energy, Chi or Prana or whatever you might call it and you realise that when you gather enough of it, it's time to sell it, that's enlightenment. Enlightenment is knowing that you'd be first raped, then exploited and then your body would be thrown in the ruins of the winter wonderland that you imagined. Or you might see lackeys of politicians taking a shit on the wooden floor of your comfy treehouse, that's enlightenment. You aren't interested in worldly things. You're interested in space, the universe and the secrets of life. These are the things that really deserve giving a thought about, can everyone do that? Rarely. Assholes who stand on corpses of murdered talent mixed with heaps of stolen and extorted knowledge do that. What are colleges and universities? These are just the places where you get the degrees from professors who are busy in politics either saving their asses or sabotaging others. It's enlightenment when you realise that it's Cold War Russia just at a level at which there is no escape and with the pathos of slavery of more than thousand years. There is no Shiva waiting on Mount Kailash. Mount Kailash is in China. All that remains is hopes of going to Vaikunth once one dies or of some other kind of heaven offered in other iterations of the same thing, one heaven being notorious for offering a lot of unpopped cherries.