Jainarayan
31 December 2011, 10:35 PM
Let me preface by saying I've had fleeting moments of this feeling over the very recent past, but not to the degree I did today.
Today I was outdoors, beautiful sunny crisp day in New Jersey. I was in a position to have some "me time", even though there was much traffic and distractions in the area.
I was sitting, and my mind cleared. I knew where I was, I heard the sounds and movements around me, but they didn't distract me. I went into a "zone". In this zone, the fleeting feelings I've been experiencing came full force:
I knew I was in my body, but I was more than my body. I felt "connected" to everything and everyone that was around me. I felt like I and they were part of a greater "whole". I knew others were in their bodies, but they were more than their bodies. I think (not sure) it was yajvanji who gave the example of a jar... the jar contains air, yet the jar is in air. My body and the other bodies contained jiva/atma, yet we were all within one. Like that jar containing air and being in air.
For that brief time I seemed to understand, or at least feel, our oneness and how God pervades and resides in every one of us, no matter how pious or evil or brilliant or idiotic I or anyone else may be, to the human emotions. Those attributes are only this fleshy matter. I can even say that about the sister-in-law whom I say I hate, rather, I hate her behaviors, not the jiva she really is. Knowing we are jiva, how can one hate oneself?
What the heck happened here today!? :headscratch:
Today I was outdoors, beautiful sunny crisp day in New Jersey. I was in a position to have some "me time", even though there was much traffic and distractions in the area.
I was sitting, and my mind cleared. I knew where I was, I heard the sounds and movements around me, but they didn't distract me. I went into a "zone". In this zone, the fleeting feelings I've been experiencing came full force:
I knew I was in my body, but I was more than my body. I felt "connected" to everything and everyone that was around me. I felt like I and they were part of a greater "whole". I knew others were in their bodies, but they were more than their bodies. I think (not sure) it was yajvanji who gave the example of a jar... the jar contains air, yet the jar is in air. My body and the other bodies contained jiva/atma, yet we were all within one. Like that jar containing air and being in air.
For that brief time I seemed to understand, or at least feel, our oneness and how God pervades and resides in every one of us, no matter how pious or evil or brilliant or idiotic I or anyone else may be, to the human emotions. Those attributes are only this fleshy matter. I can even say that about the sister-in-law whom I say I hate, rather, I hate her behaviors, not the jiva she really is. Knowing we are jiva, how can one hate oneself?
What the heck happened here today!? :headscratch: