Guest guest Posted October 3, 2002 Report Share Posted October 3, 2002 "When the breath goes out, it's fit to burn." ~ Rumi The wind and I have always shared a familial intimacy, easily understood by those who do, perhaps an experience imaginable by those who don't, but it is not the same, nor is it even anyone's imagination. Whatever it is translates imagination to remembrance, establishing conviction that obliterates any previous hope & belief, conviction in the Voice of Praise, the God of Wind, the God with whom is shared such Intimacy. This is not what you think, nor one of those poems about how the wind might lend itself to breezy metaphors. Ah, where to start? Shiva is compassionate, yet amused by Himself all the same. Just listen to the Holy Bhajans -- there's a lot of wind there! Who's praising Who? Is the wind praising in the form of Shiva, or Shiva in the form of wind? It's easy to remember both are creations – It's all praise to Him, so Praise to Him! Jai Shiva! Jai Praise! Praise is perpetual initiation some call the wind. Kamikaze - Wind Divine! Holy Spirit, Spiritus Sanctus! It's usually enough to just stop and notice Something is breathing. We say I am. Sure – just the same way we are pulsing this blood through the heart, water through the bladder! Praise to That One! Either way, when the breath goes out it's fit to burn. What more familial intimacy can one have but with their own breath, and yet Shiva is closer, Shiva is Breathing! It's the same with Grace, the silent, omnipresent source of wind, and what the wind reveals. It blows either way today, depending on how you're facing. Either way is Shiva – both are Shiva's creation. This is Bliss, That is Bliss! Should we be blown apart we'll meet up there. For us it seems it's just the way the wind blows, and there's nothing more to say but Praise – ShivAllah! ShivAllah! ShivAllah! "How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That is the significance of the comparison made between the world of the waking state and the dream world. Both are creations of the mind and, so long as the mind is engrossed in either, it finds itself unable to deny their reality. It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is awake. If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind completely from the world and turn it within and abide there, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self which is the sub- stratum of all experiences, you will find the world of which you are now aware is just as unreal as the world in which you lived your dream." - Sri Ramana Maharshi LoveAlways, b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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