Life moves through the unprecedented as well as
repetitive incidents, though intrinsically each is unique, ensuring that one is
led to the contemplative essence of life. Such is the platter and palette of
life, guiding us to taste and test basically our very own palate! The process
of life is entirely cyclic, and thus, reflexive—keeps on pointing and leading
to the Origin, One, of one and all. Reflections of the like are innumerable and
constantly in flow and form, but sighted and envisaged when the mind is found
to be reflective, contemplative.
Life so lures, as alluring is the call of life,
beckoning to experience and embody the fact: Life is redemptive, in form to
realize the formless essence of life in form that one is. Life, constantly, relentlessly,
untiringly affirms that each one of us is a unique creation of the One Creator,
Who is one with all Its created. None is superior or inferior—each, an art in
form, a science in flow, a philosophy in the process of unfurling!
Such has been an experience that evokes and incites,
and thus invokes, all that thus flow… Yesterday, in the afternoon, had the
privilege of watching an insect, akin to a grasshopper, composed its pose,
provoking and invoking a self-answering query!
For minutes, and then for hours together, found the
insect maintaining its pose, position—and more importantly, its poise, as it
sat on the window sill, absolutely still! “Meditative” is the word that sprung
in and as the consciousness. I know not when the insect left its spot, and came
out of its state of stillness. Didn’t disturb it, as felt an analogy with the
external silence and calm too that one looks and longs for, when one is in
meditation and is yet to access and attain and embody permanently the permanent
peace, the state of bliss, one’s essence.
The query indentifies itself, first: “Is it in
meditation?” And immediately is followed by its alter ego, the answer and the
affirmation: “The same Infinite Intelligence runs and moves through all, and
forms us all. Then how intelligent it is to claim and brag that, as humans, we
are the most intelligent species—we are God’s, the Infinite Creative
Intelligence’s, ‘the creation’?”
Indeed! God—the Creator, one with all Its
created—Unconditional Love, Light Eternal doesn’t discriminate and so, even
insects too meditate…and so, immediate is the realization! Thus, an insect
serves as the tool of contemplation, bisecting and dissecting, intervening and
dissolving, once again, the superficial notion of any one species’ superiority,
with exquisite simplicity! The insect flies not, rather, through its very own
meditation, guides to meditative moments, blessing with the affirmation of the
Divine: It is one with Its created, and not even for a moment does it
dissociate from the created. It is, so one is…It is, so are one and all. It is ever
protecting, always guiding, myriad Its ways, each mirroring Its Reflections,
even if engrossingly ever so subtly!
Yes, the process of life is entirely cyclic, and
thus, reflexive, as the Origin keeps on pointing and leading to Itself—the Origin,
One, of one and all!
Sushmita,
3 March 2018
