Coming into wholeness
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 3:07PM | robin coming into wholeness
Coming into wholeness. Feel your peace. Be in love with your path in life.
Find it inside you. Let go of all that makes you worry. Be free.
Access this freedom any time! The truest side of you coexists with the emotional mind...
an advaita vedanta metaphor
Imagine 3 buckets of water.
The sun is shining in all three, and they each enjoy the sun equally. One is muddy, one is stirred up, one is still and clear.
Reflection in bucket #1 is dim and dull, in bucket #2 is agitated, and in bucket #3 is peaceful.
Sun is the Self, water is the Mind, reflection is the Ego (mis-identification)
Some conclusions...
Your true self is a constant that is independent of how your mind is acting. If you appear to reflect "muddy water" you see dullness and depression. If you appear to reflect agitation, you will feel like you're breaking apart in pieces. If you appear to reflect stillness and clarity, however, you will feel a profound peacefulness with your Self.
So, if you're seeing muddy water, or water that is stirred up, how do you calm it? The answer is to calm the rajas (activity, motion and irritation in the mind) and the tamas (inert and dullness in the mind), so that you can feel the sattva (the purity of the mind).
rajas and tamas
Rajas and tamas create imbalance. Yoga, meditation or other physical activity & mental-calming activities will do the trick.
Independent of what is reflected by the mind, the sun is always shining and you are always whole. You just have to know it, feel it and identify with it.
Inspired by the teachings of Advaita Vedanta, Sankhya-Yoga and the Upanishads...
© 2010 Yoga Robin®
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Reader Comments (3)
Cheers! I enjoyed this read. Finding inner peace can be very difficult with so many distractions going on in the "real world," but when that peace is found all is good.
Yes, and when you find peace once, cutting through the chaos, then you know how to find it again and again :) Glad you enjoyed ... ;)
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