Heavenly Feast (Swargeeya Virunnu)

By E.S.John, Australia

Heavenly Feast is a radical Christian group or musical band that
took its birth in Kottayam and finds exhilaration in biblical
exhortations, with the aid of many musical instruments that fuels the
fire of high voltage emotional exuberance and nostalgic
extravagances.
Music, music everywhere music of the terrestrial dilemma of the
modernity that resembles the period conversely of the Lucifer music
which resonated the entire celestial universe which stretching the
antiquity of timelessness is something that our forefathers couldn't
afford to dream of. While the Lucifer melody and harmony once
saturated the glorification of God of the limitless ocean of the
entire celestial universe before the disgrace of the later predator,
the sub-cultural rock music of the high-flying, high-tech music
industries that horde billions and billions focus on the
unfathomable, glaring darkness of the fallen legions. The creation
of man from the essence of all the universes is a highly tuned music
that synchronize the microcosm and macrocosm, which declare the glory
and omnipotence of the Holy One of the Infinite heights, Ps.19.
Everything that belong to the entire universe moves silently on a
rhythmic order, magnitude and scale. Music really is the language of
the devas, angels and not of asuras, who sing perpetually thundering
the superlative and sublime greatnesses of the Almighty. Both a
musical instrument and the player that go together in synchronizing
order only can play a melodious music of great sublimity. If the
instrument is not in the right notation, vibration and tune, the
resultant music of the instrument will be of a sourly taste.
Man is a musical instrument of the Creator who created him in a
certain varying rhythm, harmony, melody and pattern that is a
resemblance of the Creator, so that he is expected to sing the glory
of God perpetually in Eternity. Singing, therefore, is an inevitable
food ingredient for man to survive and grow and mature here and
hereafter. When man goes out of the tune of that rhythmic life,
thalam thettiya jeevitham, in the adoration of the Almighty who
created him in His image and likeness, he is forced to sing in tune
to the lifestyle of God's enemy, the Devil. Good music that is
harnessed in the exhortation of God within a musical instrument
apparently is the sensor or receiver side of a remote-controlled
music of the angels who glorify God in Eternity, whereas the music
that venerates the Devil is a chorus that emanates from a `thalam
thettiya jeevitham'. Man who is created within the strings of musical
melody, however, has to sing out either the glory of God or the
rebelliousness of the fallen angels who fell to the abyss for their
disobedience.
Pop Music
A time has dawned now for the evaluation of the pop culture and its
music, the bible of a second tier lifestyle that has conquered the
modern world. Samuel Butler once said that man has been trying to
defeat the devil because there was no book written by the dark forces
as our saviour, and the bible of the Christians is a formidable
fortress against the evil angels, despite the inferno has been waging
a `cold war' for them since the Eden tragedy, basing the flesh as his
foothold and stronghold. The messiahs of the modern music of the sub-
cultural planes are the main seeming proponents that are being adored
under the influence of hard drugs and erotic perpetrations. This wild
music of the sub-terrestrial orchestra that has electrified the
global inhabitants as a single unit, making billions and billions of
dollars for the global wandering bands that instigate most of the
teenagers and young adults to be the participants of this brutal saga
of metallic delirium. Their albums, CDs, autographs and their hand-
touched artefacts are sold in record prices, just like the large
scale distributions of bibles in the bygone days, of course not for
making money and earthly status.
While the classical songs have the slow-appealing effect on the inner
being, the drug-addicted hysterical songs and show and stage-pulling
performances trigger the emotional passions that are deep rooted in
the flesh. The irreligious young blood that precipitate in the lust
of the flesh get a thrill to sing and perform the jungle theatrical
shows with deep passions and commitments. The classical, passionless
music, kirthangals, that touch the heart fibres restore the
vibrations of the Spirit of God in our nerve cells, whereas the wild,
ferocious and metallic music that breaks the nerves tends to be a
worship of the prince of perdition, ultimately bartering our soul and
body for the devil. So far the religion that used to dictate the
virtuous lifestyle to its followers had a strong influence, but the
secularism, technology and atheism of the materialistic impact on
people has imperiled the human animals of today to cultivate a wild
taste of arts and music and every other thing in a different plane of
emotionalism, the bubble of our flesh. The burning passion of the
flesh that precipitates the sex impulse is the root of every modern
art and music of the post-religious period of nerve imperialism. It
is a proven fact that the product of celestial experience is
fragrance smell around, and the outcome of the presence of Satan is
the erotic feeling of sexual impulses. Read `Soul after Death' for
proof. While the scriptural products and writings are of the
influence of the finger of the Holy Spirit, the modern or even the
pornographic art contributions are the outcome of Buccaneer lifestyle
that plunder into the arena of god Eros.
Corporate Faith
It is the responsibility of each individual to help other fellow
beings in cultivating their own salvation by association and
socialization. Just like the marriage of two individuals is the
contract between two families, salvation of an individual also comes
under the periphery of mutual co-operation with the brethren and
helping them. This is the reason for starting the Nicene Creed like
this: `we believe in one true God, not `I believe in one God, as the
practice of few churches. The use of `I' is personal and `we'
impersonal. Each individual is only a link connecting the chain of
eternal life. All the departed individuals are also waiting for us to
be joined together for the journey to New Jerusalem, Heb.11: 9-10,
40. It was the practice of the OT father to bless his son at their
deathbed, so also it was considered as a blessing to be buried in his
father's grave. Now the teenagers are plucked from the dear ones for
adding numbers to their cults that try to endanger the true
worshippers of apostolic Christianity. The bait of hooking the
immature and vulnerable children and womenfolk into the net of the
cult worshippers by grabbing them from the armpit of their fathers is
a great sin that may require accountability at the judgement seat.
Instead of rupturing the family web these cultic worshippers should
have concentrated preaching the Kingdom of God to the non-Christians.
This style of salvation offering to the genuine Christians by
spiritual charlatans by acrimonious way of splitting the family unit,
making enmity within the same household members with derelict faith,
is like the family feuding on any reasons that destroy and divide for
further depredation. Shame and woe to such religious fanatics who
rupture the family serenity by injecting with heresies that are
replete with infernal poison.
Just as there have been legions of Heavenly host who sing the glory
of God continually, Lucifer who was in charge of melodious worship of
God became a rebel, prompting for an epic war, the aftermath of which
is the genesis of all our sufferings. Wherever there is true worship
of God, there will be one or more troubleshooters. Rebellion that we
inherited from Lucifer is a common denominator for all, particularly
in the religious field that is closer to God, which boils down to
internal feuding and division in the religious worshipping places.
Judas' betrayal is a salient example. Egoism that is the nucleus of
all divisions is the wealth of the fallen angels and has been rampant
in all the religious venues. The inherent pride of the clergy,
whether young or old, has a touch of Lucifer's magna carta of the
over- ruling mentality and supremacy. Even the mantle of the same
falls on the altar assistants and the Church Managing Committee
members.
No wonder the preying of this rebellious trait upon the heretical
religious ministers who by hook or by crook are wandering around to
multiply their sect members by trapping the believers from Christian
brethren; if they haul their net in the non-Christian waters, they
fear that they lose their heads. Destroying the basic family unit, by
creating disharmony among the family members on the basis of
misinterpreting the Bible and faith, is the work of Satan that
accomplish their mission through the self-conceited ministers who
grab money and wealth for their adulterated evangelism. I challenge
their veracity if they have the courage to gospelise among the non-
Christian strongholds. As they don't do such mission, it can be
easily concluded that the `swargeeya Virunnu' carnival is the
standing monument of naked hypocrisy and self-deceit of wolf
ministers.
Swargeyya Virunnu
Swargeeya Virunnu or Sadya is a term used for the `vachana shusrusha
charismatic group', is nothing but the luxuriant feat with the word
of God, the bible. The formation of this sadya by evangelical
Sadducees, as reported by a reliable source is in Kottayam, the nerve
centre of the clergy of the Kerala Christians. While the holy Liturgy
is the queen of all the sacraments for the Catholic and the Orthodox
Christians, the undue importance given to the bible by the Protestant
Christians is a sign of a `cold war' between these two warlords of
the modern `Christendom'. As these derelict groups have deserted the
main stream Christianity, their main thrust to eliminate the Bride is
by focusing by giving over importance to the biblical verses that
have multifarious layers of mystical meanings in particular contexts
and situations. The Orthodox churches regard the church, the body of
Christ that formed first, as the main focal center which hold the
head, the Christ, whereas the right wing Protestants attribute
heavyweight to the word of God, so that their aim of caricaturing the
church is achieved. While the mainstream churches find their solace
in the participation in the Eucharist, the fundamental Christian
groups consolidate their supremacy by giving importance to the
perverted biblical interpretations that give license to an easy-going
superficial life of emotions and exuberance of outbursts. While they
scoff off at the sacraments of the mainstream churches, they live in
a mechanical life of emotional explosions; one is esoteric and the
other is exoteric. Swargeeya virunne that is embedded in `vachana
shushrusha' is a tool of the charismatic branches that win the hearts
and minds of the pseudo Christians of the high-tech age.
The one third of the world's Christian population is under the brand
of this charismatic group now. If the present trend continues at this
rate, we have been warned that the entire Christian community will be
gulped into this current by the year 2030, if at all leaving behind a
copycat small main stream church followers at the mercy of the
Herculean `swargeeya virunnu' group. Smelling this tempestuous trend,
the mainstream churches that borrow the techniques of the firebrand
churches to block the exodus of believers into other Machiavellian
faith adventurism is apparently the overt techniques of today's faith
adulterants. The borrowed `swargeeya Sadya' of the traditional
churches is seemingly the gala, ` mela', of the carnivorous
exhibition of emotional hysteria. Despite the Roman church has
neither banned nor given approval for the `Potta convention center,
what happens there is a copycat culture of pop music emotionalism,
the lifeblood of the charismatic upheavals. The `swargeeya sadya'
likely organized under a metropolitan in the Orthodox Church also is
under this fervour of stopping the sheep to shift sides that diminish
the membership of the mainstream churches. My observations with
regards to these ultra modern trends may be depicted by as mere
skepticism.
1. The term `Swargeya Sadyakal or virunnu' is a misnomer that
doesn't go in par with dining with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in
Paradise, so also it is an insult to the Orthodox sacraments,
particularly the queen of the sacraments, the Holy Qurbana, because
they are meant to be the chanting glorifications of the Creator,
whereas the musical concerts or musical carnivals with the aid of pop
music instruments end up in the glorification of God's enemy,
Lucifer, whose musical worship was the paragon of melodious music
before his fall. I can also misquote so many biblical verses that
are given figuratively and symbolically for twisting the age-old
truth and faith. There is no other sadya like the Holy Liturgy while
we are on earth. The Devine liturgy is a mystical mantra, not like
black magic or necromancy, but is the chanting of God's mysterious
and exalting ways of redeeming the lost race of mankind. The hand and
mouth that is used for glorifying God in the sacraments is not meant
for any other purpose of belligerent outbursts, also not for abusing
others by hurting the feelings and inflicting the bodily tortures.
The clergy that plays the God's ambassadorial role hasn't played any
such roles so far for the last 2000 years, but the pop culture that
touched all our modern lives implicitly or explicitly has sent heat
waves which overturned our spiritual arenas as pagan worshipping
places by borrowing irreligious elements from outside. Mantras are
chanted in a silently audible ways, not like musical concerts and
carnivals that is stringed with high-tech musical instruments which
add fuel for further pandemonium for pop musical carnivals.
2. What happens in the revival centers is run in the same tune.
There are good sermons, counseling and education and the ingenious
ways of robbing the sheep from the true fold, but when it comes to
the worship it is a pop culture pattern of soul-crippling emotional
nervous thunders that knowingly or unknowingly please Lucifer and his
legions. When one goes to the King of kings, he whispers by sobbing
and kneeling at His feet. If we are borrowing a copycat culture that
has ruined the churches in many parts of the world, it is nothing but
another ingredient for our self-annihilation. I was taken aghast at
the sight of the Orthodox Church's orchestra that is protagonized and
propagandized by the clergy, making an impression that they are the
rock and roll stars of the religious arena.
3. Instead of using the word church our forefathers used the
word `Natakashala', it might have been apparently done deliberately
for appeasing the majority Hindus. Had we used the proper
word `church', the religious fanaticism that boils down to martyrdom
would have multiplied the numbers of our flock for wider
evangelization of the sub-continent. We didn't have any hesitation in
copying the convention geethangals that are from abroad; most of them
are personal pleas for earthly gains and also for cultivating the
heretical faiths. We all love those convention songs that are sung in
cinema and TV tunes that again dynamited our ways of worship. These
are sung for the farewell songs after the Holy sacrament in `adipoly
tunes'. We shouldn't follow this pattern of mad and drug-addicted
music of the pop music that breaks our nerves and souls.
The classical music, kirthanangal, is the food of love, where as the
lunatic music that thunders our inner being by the bang of banal
musical instruments and the stamping on the stage is the product of
hatred towards anything that is holy and sanguine. The pop culture
and its wild music replaced altogether the white-cladding style of
Nazrani dress and appearance, the symbol of white angels, just like
the Holy liturgy is a sort of the vibrating history of the Holy
Trinity. The evangelization of the dark dress, the opaque colour of
the dark infernal forces, of this bizarre culture of the pop
mobocracy that highlighting jeans and lose, trendy shabby dress, long
hair and long beard are the codes that is synchronized with the pop
music which uphold the role of Satan who demolish anything that is
kept as sacred. Has the church any obligation in embracing a culture
that works against the Bride and the Groom? The validation of the
church choir, to a certain extent of matchmaking place for the
teenagers and young adults, has augmented the turmoil of
authenticating both sexes in the decision-making venues in the
religious places. While complementarities reign in the predating
world of food chains after the epic fall, the equality of sexes is
also an invention of pop culture that is to shatter if there is
anything left Heavenly. The cult of feminism that is a hermaphrodite
edition of a virago breed of the modern Eves is an outcome of the sub-
culture that has to predate the species of the vanishing race.
Electricity that is the mother of all the modern inventions is
responsible for the doom of our natural life and culture and
spirituality by the sound pollutions of modern musical instruments
and carnivals. One has to experience that music as the language of
the devas, unfortunately not anymore because it is being harnessed by
the dark forces of the nether world forces.
4. To move with the filthy current of the secular or social
world is not the aim of the church in winning the souls for the Lord;
go against the current where the hands of God surely help the
battler. The ecumenism that knocked off the barriers between the
churches has encroached into the stage of paganism that surely will
devastate the church, which will go under ground at the end of the
day. I never cherish the view of the present Roman pope that the
Protestant churches are not Christians; there are very many gem like
spiritual warriors there, only difficulty is that they threw away
some of the imperatives that are needed here and in afterlife also.
There is nothing wrong in copying anything from anywhere that doesn't
pollute Orthodox mysticism. Keralites may think that all these
bohemian sounds of emotional music and electric decorations are the
storming signs of a spiritual revival, but those who have seen the
suicidal churches abroad understand them as the death knell of chaste
spirituality. Just as the fan doesn't need fanning, God the source of
all music, tunes, tones and sounds don't need the unity of music;
what He wants is the unity of minds of the worshippers. When that
unity that is lost from the devotees, we over impose the unity of
empty sounds that we feel will please the God of love. Love is the
only tonic among the believers that can hammer the warring forces to
come into Christian cohesion.
Orthodox Mysticism
Some people feel that the word mysticism that seemingly is aligned
with Gnosticism, which is linked with parapsychology, is to be
treated as heresy, thinking that mysticism is an obsolete phenomenon
of the NT period because to them Christ has already revealed all the
hidden paths. Really Christ revealed Himself, yet He remains to be
obscure to our naked eyes and everyday life; this is why we have to
practice mysticism that opens our inner eyes, which only can
participate with the celestial hosts. Only a yogi who cultivates the
yogic therapy of adoring the Lord and meditating for inner
cleanliness experience the metaphysical ecstasy of exhilarating the
bliss of the unknown planes. The modern theological pedantry that
cannot unfold the true theological exigencies is only rainless clouds
that bring spiritual droughts to the sycophants. Today's theologies
that generate numberless cults and denominations are nothing but
personal idiosyncrasies of religious nomads who are self-seekers of
stereotyped materialism. Some of them also may nod that the Lord's
resurrection or consubstantiation or transubstantiation is a mystery,
but can they penetrate into the mystery of the Lord's second coming?
They even reckon that the word mystical connotes to heresy because it
finger point to the Gnostic initiation rituals and ceremonies.
Jews crucified Jesus because of the absence of religious mysticism
in their daily life, paving the way for not understanding the core
teachings of the religion, resulting in forming the Jewish sects
of `Phariseeism and sadducceism'. "For you have taken away the key of
knowledge; you did not enter yourselves and you hindered those who
were entering, Lk.11: 52. The life that originates from microcosm and
spiral through the wind of microcosm is a gigantic mystery. Brood
over silently the mysteries that surround our existence here and in
afterlife. There is the touch of mysticism in everything that we see
and touch because everything is shrouded in the fog of mysteries. We
see but we don't see; we hear but we don't hear is the state of
affairs of the superfluous religions that mislead the blind and
vulnerable. There is nothing outside of mysticism in this world; man,
the unknown to himself is a passing shadow of this ephemeral
world. "For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesy is imperfect;
but when the perfect comes, imperfect will pass away…..now we see in
a mirror dimly, but then face to face", 1.Cor.13; Rom.8: 23-25.
Unless an inner eye that spin the garment of incorruption is
accomplished, we can't mingle with the celestial beings that reveal
the unfathomable mysteries of the microcosm that spin within the
macrocosm. Only New Jerusalem is the culmination of perfection.
Mysteries, mysteries everywhere mysteries, even within us. The
Orthodox mysticism that only can open our heart's eyes and visualize
the hidden realities only for a short glimpse of occasional
supernatural travels is the only reality in the shoreless ocean of
multifarious ripples. All our prayers focus on the brightening of the
heart's eye or the third eye that goes in tune with Indian yogic
therapy.
The churches that are celebrating the worship in tune with the pop
cultural music are certainly devoid of the monastic wealth of
Orthodox mysticism. The Gnostic worship that concentrate on the
science of the spirit, such as intuition, clairvoyance,
clairaudience, telepathy, etc. are both common denominators for
Gnostics and Orthodox worshippers because God and the devil use the
same media for their communication and transportation, just like the
wealth of Nature is given to both good and bad. Despite the Orthodox
mysticism is the only way of worship; salvation is offered to
everyone, as God knows the frailties of our flesh. `Many are called,
but only few are chosen". This could be the reason for great and
small positions in the land of New Jerusalem. It is natural to
conclude that those who lead the life of a recluse may enjoy the
highest position in the Kingdom of God, mt.19: 12. The one, the
Mother of God, who carried the Mystery of mysteries, and bore the
yoke of sufferings for that purpose is certainly to get the highest
honour in that planet of luminosity. Who is this solitary embodiment
of humility that is discarded by the majority Christian denominations
and cults worshippers? This is why there are deficiencies and
excesses of Christian worshipping ingredients in all other
denominations other than the only Bride, the Orthodox Church.
The devil also believes in the existence and omnipotence of God; does
it mean that the predator also is getting salvation by offering
melodious music? Dear believers, don't follow the crowd that sang
hosanna on Palm Sunday and the chorus of death on Friday. The worship
in exalting the flesh is detrimental, whereas worshipping in the
spirit is far richer than anything else. Though many of us can't lead
a life of the Spirit in this day of religious epilepsy, they try to
glimpse the Promised Land in their weaknesses, just as Moses saw it
at a distance by climbing on the mountain. The orthodox mysticism is
the method of killing the body by rigorous ways of spiritual
gymnastics that liberate the soul from the bondage of the flesh, the
gymnasium for all our transient pleasure, and weave the garb for
immortality, 1.Cor.9: 27. All the biblical prophets, Christ's 12
disciples and other apostles could make travels and communications in
the inter-celestial planes and carry out the Lord's work. These extra
sensory abilities are psychic ones that are given to every
individual; meditation and concentration of the mind can develop
these innate faculties that can either help one to serve God or the
Devil. Alas the Christian religious ministers who don't know the abc
of such endowed powers use their limited knowledge in the
constructions of jungles of cement buildings, the towers of the
powers of Death, and mislead the ignorant and vulnerable followers to
their doom. If they have a limited knowledge of the basics of human
spirit and its ability of metaphysical traffic and communication they
could have at least quenched the thirst of the intellectual elites of
the hybrid technological era. As the ministers are ignorant to these
unearthly phenomena, they condemn the Gnostic wisdom and their
domain. Unless our these spiritual senses develop by prayer and
meditation of Jesus, let the hybrid Christian ministers read the
classical literatures, particularly Indian and Greek, and develop
their knowledge that allows them not to betray the Lord of Heaven.
Only when we understand the Everest height of the Son of Man either
by Christian practice or by bookish knowledge, we fall at the feet of
the Incarnate God. Listen to Jesus and perceive that the blind lead
the blind in our everyday life of religious ceremonies and carnivals.
The Son of Man has no place to hide His face in our today's religious
festivities and celebrations; it has become the den of robbers.
The origin of monasticism is a way of life of praising God by
shutting ourselves from the banalities of the day-to-day life of the
flesh. The Orthodox mysticism, the nerve center of spirituality, has
been the lifeblood of Christianity till the dawning days of the
Renaissance and Industrial Revolution that shattered the Body of
Christ, despite all the dissenting tendencies have been there since
the beginning of the Eden drama. Jesus began His public ministry only
after the mystic life of 40 days of fasting, so also John the Baptist
leading a reclusive life all along. This was the reason for them to
abdicate the self-conceited lifestyle of the Jewish religious sects
that led the life that the blind lead the blind. We can't follow the
strenuous lifestyle of the pillar saints, but try to emulate them,
without discarding them into the waste bin, and follow the world of
Christian mysticism, not Christian charlatanism. If Christ has earned
everything for us, why do we linger on this plane and become a burden
here? If we are the saved ones, go right now to the plane where the
Saviour is. St.Paul shunned Gnosticism because there is no Christ
there. Gnosticism that belongs to the astrals indirectly worships the
astrals, asuranmars, of the oyar plane, aerial realm. Just like the
Indian literatures are full of aphorisms of our daily life,
Gnosticism also entails the truths of various magnitudes of life.
Christianity has reached to its nadir because of importing of the
materialistic life by exporting all the Christian values that derived
from a life of mysticism, the means of austerity and frugality.
5. The fossil money has emptied our souls that to be revitalized
with the wealth of the seven legions of the diabolical forces. The
offshoot of liberal theology that emanates from materialism has
blinded us totally. If we don't worship God in truth and spirit, we
will be forced to glorify Satan in all his omnivorous tastes. All
these changes of damnation are sure to take place, but vindicating
them as genuine due to deep-rooted ignorance and selfishness is my
concern. Though I speak of Christian mysticism, don't think that I am
following the trail zealously; it is impossible in this high-flying
buccaneer life of secularization and socialization. But self-
complacency is suicidal; accept that we are off the road into the
muddy ground. Thinking that we are giving a royal and loyal service
to our followers, particularly the budding generations, we shouldn't
live in a false paradise because such venues are the best training
grounds for our members who don't know the difference between the
left and right hands to switch over to the tentacles of pseudo
Christianity that is a clear sign of self-worship.
Count how many daily are flowing away from our church into the other
sects and never to return. If we break the hedge that the monastic
Fathers have made, sure that the serpent will swallow us.
An `aviyal', heterogeneous, worship that borrows from left and right
is a lukewarm self-conceited religiosity; either be warm or cold.
Many such revival centres can do this sort of changes as they are in
the heretical line, but we can't do such things because it is the
vanishing point of the true Christian faith from the face of the
earth. However, this tragedy of faith bashing has to take place one
day, Lk.18: 8. Realizing from the scriptural evidences, obvious
cataclysmic changes due to climate changes, blood bath due to
terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, cult worship, etc, I write
this because the cataclysmic signs that finger point that the Lord
standing at the gate already to steal off His flock is coming clearer
and closer every moment. I have lot more to write, but the paradox of
life is that everything has to come to an end whether either good or
bad.
My own personal observations may not hold valid because the clergy
and church hierarchies borrow these changing trends for keeping the
flock under their iron claws. I am utterly confused and bewildered; I
am only a man of straw. Therefore, I don't make any judgement with
regards to the techniques of changing the doctrinal policies and
dynamiting the faith ingredients. "For I am a passing guest, a
sojourner, like all my fathers. Look away from me that I may know
gladness, before I depart and be no more, Ps.39: 13.