THE PLANET EARTH - 1.15 AM - 28th May 2008
I have achieved many things in divergent areas of life. I wonder sometimes if I had not been practising kriya yoga, would life have changed to the extent that it has changed ? Perhaps it may have, perhaps not. And then I think, its not yoga - its my benefactor, my Guru, my Teacher - Sri Shailendra Sharma - who changed my life. When I had met him years earlier, he remarked - "vicaas, my honorable Guru (Sri Satya Charan Lahiri) made my life. Before meeting him, I was nothing." Today it is with a smile that I am writing this testimony - My Guru Sri Shailendra Sharma made my life completely. Before meeting him, I myself was a nothing.
Since a few weeks, after getting up from my morning & evening meditations, I have been feeling a strange kinship with our planet earth. An awareness of earth has overpowered my thoughts - though strangely, I have not consciously been thinking about it at any time. We worship the stars and planets to lesson the burdens of our karma - at least the Hindus who believe in astrology do, but we strangely ignore the great mother earth on which we live. I think hardly anyone of us ever worships her. From spirits to gods to goblins to kings to commoners......all live here, all need the earth to express themselves. But who acknowledges that ? We would rather look for a krishna, vishnu, brahma or shiva in the skies, but we dont see this Goddess on whose breast we walk and live, who sustains our lives and into whom we merge in the end. Isn't it strange ? Or is it that only yogis see things which common people don't see ? For the past few weeks, I cannot help bowing down to earth in love & reverence - when I wake up, when I meditate & before I sleep. My thoughts go on to what my Guru had said years earlier about "earth consciousness" - "every yogi enters the state of earth / planetary conscinousness someday." At the time he expressed it, it sounded so strange. I am beginning to understand it now after so many years. I know its difficult to believe, but I can feel now that this planet is alive and it has a consciousness like all of us.
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