Movement to Stillness
There are only two things to what we know as life: stillness and movement. The physical creation that we see around is the movement, and that which creates is stillness. Every movement or creation we see around is born out of stillness, survives and thrives in stillness, and sinks back into stillness. Movement is ‘samsara’ or ‘maya’ as we know it and stillness is divine. If your ‘prana’, life-force, that which creates, goes for and around creation, then you belong to ‘samsara’, and if the same energy goes in pursuit of stillness, then you are spiritual. These are the only two ways to exist and there is no third choice, really. Movement is a short happening between time and space as we see the way creation is happening. Stillness is eternal, beyond time and space. If we are lost in creation, then it will lead to repetition — what we know as cycles of life. But realising one’s stillness is ultimate freedom — from life and death. Meditation is stillness. This is to reverse the flow of our ‘prana’, currently going out in various directions and lost in movement, to go within or toward stillness. This is the meeting of Shakti with Shiva, or creation and creator. Your energies are now finding its way back to the Source. To get lost in creation is untruth, but to consciously merge with the Source is to realise the Truth. An enlightened being is one who is always established in the stillness and movement for him is as needed — always conscious and never compulsive. Spirituality is a journey from movement to stillness.
Source: Economic Times, 16/11/2018
There are only two things to what we know as life: stillness and movement. The physical creation that we see around is the movement, and that which creates is stillness. Every movement or creation we see around is born out of stillness, survives and thrives in stillness, and sinks back into stillness. Movement is ‘samsara’ or ‘maya’ as we know it and stillness is divine. If your ‘prana’, life-force, that which creates, goes for and around creation, then you belong to ‘samsara’, and if the same energy goes in pursuit of stillness, then you are spiritual. These are the only two ways to exist and there is no third choice, really. Movement is a short happening between time and space as we see the way creation is happening. Stillness is eternal, beyond time and space. If we are lost in creation, then it will lead to repetition — what we know as cycles of life. But realising one’s stillness is ultimate freedom — from life and death. Meditation is stillness. This is to reverse the flow of our ‘prana’, currently going out in various directions and lost in movement, to go within or toward stillness. This is the meeting of Shakti with Shiva, or creation and creator. Your energies are now finding its way back to the Source. To get lost in creation is untruth, but to consciously merge with the Source is to realise the Truth. An enlightened being is one who is always established in the stillness and movement for him is as needed — always conscious and never compulsive. Spirituality is a journey from movement to stillness.
Source: Economic Times, 16/11/2018
