Week-51

Jungian ‘Common experience’ makes both saint and the sinner bedfellows.
Simon of Stylites who is revered as a saint supposedly lived on a column. It typifies the predicament of those ascetics of yore. They would condemn the very pagan artifacts and at the same use it to show off their holiness.
That hair shirt which irritates the skin of anchorite and makes him think of ‘riches stored in heaven’ has been the labor of some poor sinner working in a sweatshop poorly paid and with a family to support.
How holy one can feel if he or she requires labor of others who in all probability were exploited in the bargain?
51. 2nd Day
Saints riding on the back of a suffering humanity maintain inequality a little longer.

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