I HAVE discussed the correlation between Vedanta, Neoplatonism and Absolute Idealism on many occasions in the past and was recently exploring the ideas of an Indian thinker by the name of Mahatapasvi Shri Kumarswamiji (1909-1995), who was once invited to Rome to explain the tenets of Shiva-yoga and the activation of the Third Eye to Pope Paul VI (1897-1978). I can’t say the latter is one of my favourite individuals, given his role in Vatican 2 and the wider modernist trajectory, but I would nonetheless like to discuss something Shri Kumarswamiji had to say about the relationship between the human and the divine:
“The soul’s union with God is a will-union, a mutual inhabitation and not self-merge which leaves no place for personality; for personality survives even in union with God. This mysterious union-in-separateness of God and soul is a necessary doctrine of all sane mysticism.”
Although this is a powerful statement in itself, I believe that we can transpose this spiritual principle to the political realm. If one considers that National-Anarchists form themselves into groups on the basis of free choice and non-coercion, we can see that it accords with Shri Kumarswamiji’s point about the amalgamation between God and the soul being a “will-union”. More importantly, by choosing a form of Anarchism which accords with one’s own principles we ensure that “God” – in this case the Movement itself – allows for a “mutual inhabitation” but without forcing its affiliates to undergo the kind of “self-merge” that “leaves no place for personality”. Shri Kumarswamiji’s use of the term “union-in-separateness” therefore conveys the postulate of “unity-in-diversity” that we Anarchists swear by.
Once again, an example from the spiritual domain serves as a useful analogy for National-Anarchism and what Shri Kumarswamiji describes as “sane mysticism” appears in the form of sane political action. What has been described elsewhere as “the-great-in-the-small” is thus a reflection of the manifold individuals and communities that gather beneath a single banner with a view to autonomy and self-determination.
