Meditation Tip: Losing Identity
When salt goes into the ocean, it dissolves. During the actual process of dissolving there are two stages: one stage is where the salt is losing its identity and another is salt identifying itself. This process is painful when it is being observed. Actually it is confusing for the salt as why this is happening. It is afraid of losing its identity and is undergoing the pain (delusory pain) and at the same time it is entering into the vastness of the ocean. Its identity as salt is limiting it in understanding the vastness and the joy it is experiencing in that vastness and the very vastness itself is beyond its comprehension, because the mind is not functioning or used as a tool in experiencing the vastness. Its true identity as soul is experiencing the vastness and for soul there is no identity. It itself is vastness. It itself is the ocean.
When salt goes into the ocean, it dissolves. During the actual process of dissolving there are two stages: one stage is where the salt is losing its identity and another is salt identifying itself. This process is painful when it is being observed. Actually it is confusing for the salt as why this is happening. It is afraid of losing its identity and is undergoing the pain (delusory pain) and at the same time it is entering into the vastness of the ocean. Its identity as salt is limiting it in understanding the vastness and the joy it is experiencing in that vastness and the very vastness itself is beyond its comprehension, because the mind is not functioning or used as a tool in experiencing the vastness. Its true identity as soul is experiencing the vastness and for soul there is no identity. It itself is vastness. It itself is the ocean.
fantastic analogy.I love this Ravi
ReplyDeletelost again....unable to relat to salt or Ocean....when can i see my salty nature...for that also is there a prerequisite....i can clearly feel the limited nature, while i am unabel to feel any hint on the unlimited nature beign tlaked about....where to look fro it, how to experience it...sorry mere words may nto help ...but i am confused on how to go about this...if u can understand pl help me pull me out of this mess
ReplyDeleteRaj,
ReplyDeleteThe “mess” as what you have put is also an illusion which everyone of us will undergo. There is this kind of state when we feel so peaceful during meditation and once we are stuck with some highly rationalistic challenge we lose our peace. Again, during those moments when we are challenged, if we get into some kind of spiritual practice, suddenly we enter into that solitude and we are again peaceful and the moment we think about the challenge, we are disturbed.
If we look these two happenings as a distant observer, then we can see a portion of salt that is dissolving and a portion of salt that is yet to dissolve. It is like - we are observing a half-chiseled statue. We can recognize the image of the statue that is going to reveal itself when it is chiseled completely but at that moment it is not revealed completely and is undergoing the painful experience of chiseling process.