the mirror of NATURE BY SWAMI VISHWAPARAPANANDA
Nature is bounteous. She is bounteous in grass and in desert sand. In ocean, she is bounteous in variety. Many are her splendors; many are the things perfect as they are. Grasses are grassed perfectly, Oceans are oceans perfectly, and vast deserts are deserts perfectly. Within the frame-work of time oceans may become deserts, grasslands may become oceans. Nature is available and FLEXIBLE; identity is interchangeable, metamorphosis is continually happening. In our lives the same vastness exists. The space within us is wider than a multitude of universes. Our minds travel faster than light; the mind can circle the earth in milliseconds.
Many of us live as if we are separate from nature; we live, as if we are independent of nature, yet daily we consume what nature gives us from her cornucopia. Working through thoughts of separation, help us to see how connected we are at first to each other and then everything else in nature. And just as willing as nature is to be an ocean becoming a desert, so can we be flexible enough to transmigrate from one way of seeing to another.
In the 1400’s Nicolas Copernicus speculated that all the planets revolve around the sun. What he said was in contravention with what was believed at the time, that the Earth was the center of the solar system and was also flat. What he saw was later expanded upon in the West and many theories were developed around it. One of these theories is the theory of the Central Sun.
So if our solar system that exists on the fringe of the Milky Way galaxy is only part of a far more intricate system in which whole galaxies revolve like planets around a central sun, would it be so difficult to see that whole universe revolves around yet a greater and more absolute center? These till now are theories; I would like to suggest that these theories are a metaphor for ourselves. In the East for example the major organs in the body mirror the planets consisting of our solar system. All the rivers seen as the nervous system, all the senses seen as the five elements and so on. What emerges from this is the confirmation that not only are we not separate from anything but that everything inside of us is present and reflected perfectly in the multitude of reflections in nature. For example it could be true that as many cells in your body- so many universes exist. It could be true that the same pulse that beats in your heart, beats in the heart at the center of all things.
And the only way you would know if this theory is more than a theory is the same way you would know what a grape tastes like. Put it in your mouth and chew it, taste it and swallow it. Like this it can impart its own self to you. SO also, break the bread of loving determination expressed through faith and trust in the Guru who is the Central Sun around which we all revolve into whom we shall all merge.
Many of us live as if we are separate from nature; we live, as if we are independent of nature, yet daily we consume what nature gives us from her cornucopia. Working through thoughts of separation, help us to see how connected we are at first to each other and then everything else in nature. And just as willing as nature is to be an ocean becoming a desert, so can we be flexible enough to transmigrate from one way of seeing to another.
In the 1400’s Nicolas Copernicus speculated that all the planets revolve around the sun. What he said was in contravention with what was believed at the time, that the Earth was the center of the solar system and was also flat. What he saw was later expanded upon in the West and many theories were developed around it. One of these theories is the theory of the Central Sun.
So if our solar system that exists on the fringe of the Milky Way galaxy is only part of a far more intricate system in which whole galaxies revolve like planets around a central sun, would it be so difficult to see that whole universe revolves around yet a greater and more absolute center? These till now are theories; I would like to suggest that these theories are a metaphor for ourselves. In the East for example the major organs in the body mirror the planets consisting of our solar system. All the rivers seen as the nervous system, all the senses seen as the five elements and so on. What emerges from this is the confirmation that not only are we not separate from anything but that everything inside of us is present and reflected perfectly in the multitude of reflections in nature. For example it could be true that as many cells in your body- so many universes exist. It could be true that the same pulse that beats in your heart, beats in the heart at the center of all things.
And the only way you would know if this theory is more than a theory is the same way you would know what a grape tastes like. Put it in your mouth and chew it, taste it and swallow it. Like this it can impart its own self to you. SO also, break the bread of loving determination expressed through faith and trust in the Guru who is the Central Sun around which we all revolve into whom we shall all merge.