What is Sovereignty for the Hindu Today?

The self in Hindu thought, even in the individual is a synonym for the universal

– Bipin Chandra Pal

What is universal now but a hierarchy? In that it still develops too much consensus around its power. What is the reprise of colonial Hinduism with so much of the self? How do we take up space in place? How did this all become the New Age? Where is the self here in Southern California where we have erased the communities with our settling universal selves? Is it the universal that keeps people out? What is a self in Hindu thought? Who is myself in Hindu thought, and what is mystic about this? What is the reprise of the individual who is a synonym of the self? Maybe the power of Shakti can be the new synonym, with its sense of “to be able.” But is the problem of being able also a caste-privilege mentality? And is this still reigning in the institution of the self. Why then do we build such assemblage around it as ritual but not check in to what might be too self-determined.