Sojourn : Part 4

Life expands. Life contracts. Like the pulsating rhythm of the heart beat or the waves of the ocean, out of the singular consciousness, varied forms emerge in the dualistic existence and then in the same flow they disappear.

And all this happens, on it's own. As if wound by the clock maker of yore, who has set the rhythm of our lives and the rhythm of tyhe universe, long ago.

But in life, we assume control. We assume duality. We assign names, definitions and various other mental constructs for things which appear and disappear in the consciousness.

It's only in moments of thoughtlessness, of nothingness, of complete relaxation, that we see the way it IS and realize that in this play of God, we are mere observers, of the various shows which are simultaneously on, all around, interacting/crossing/transferring/destroying/creating/sustaining...each other, yet beyond their own volition or plans. On their own, as a result of the momentum which has set all things in motion...long ago. By the prime mover whom we give various names.

Yet, this realization dawns only in moments of rest and peacefulness, where we accept rather than try to control or judge all that comes across in our consciousness.

In this vast continuum of our consciousness, how it matters whether this or that happens around our bodies, especiall when the duration of our life spans or those events around us is infinitisimally small.

And yet I know that this same mind will turn around and revolt, and push and pull and forget all this 'gyan' by getting lost in activity and duality, assuming control and responsibility for illusions and irrelevant phenomena.

As if, within a life there are various bursts of duality and non-duality, like the millions of strands of DNA in our genes. May be that is all that there is to it, and yet for fun, the show must go on.

Gods, palying fools. :)

So be it.

And enjoying this current state of clarity and forces of truth and reality, forces of beauty and a spontaneous flow with ryhthm rather than stress, control and confusion.

Maya has consented to release it's grip for sometime..perhaps it's Shiv's blessings !

(Just returned from trips to two Jyotirlings - Bhimashankar and Tryambakeshwar, and other sites in Nasik ..)