Unity and Diversity

From the One many. Each one of us is an expression of the One.  Freely moving out into the relative- what is whole, complete, full, and transcendent- dynamically takes shape.  Embodying, permitting the very aliveness of who we come to think of ourselves to be: daughter, sister, wife, friend, teacher, student.  As we sit each day to meditate, we permit the natural melting of these relative identities to merge back into source. From the many One.
 
Visarga śakti, the potency of consciousness; she is the emissional power, the explosion out of transcendence that manifests time, space, form and differentiation; she is also the movement back to Self, simultaneously pulsating in both directions. Every day when we open our senses and take the world in anew, we ride outward on the stream of consciousness, the current of the visarga-śakti, the tradition names vama.  When we simply, naturally, close our eyes and permit the heart seed mantra to rise we naturally, innocently ride the inward current to source, named jeyestha; the senior prior, first. 
 
In our surrender to the daily experience of this inner bath, spontaneously the pulsating, driving essence of source, infills every fiber of our being on every possible level; whether we register it or not.  Even as we sit here now, in our bodies, using our senses, hearing the words spoken permitting them to land connections made by the mind and ego, inhabiting our individuality, we are simultaneously this individual identity, and cosmic wholeness.  Moment by moment in our waking consciousness, indeed as Śiva Sūtra 3.20 states: triṣu caturthaṃ tailavad āsecyam - like oil pouring into every state, this extraordinary natural process, floods our awareness.  
 
Unity and diversity are relevant to identity; in acknowledging our gross level, (sthula) pseudo identities and experiencing a more subtle highest identity, we transform our sense of who we truly are. We are becoming, always becoming more: more present, more knowledgeable, more subtle, more creative, more alive; more our truest self.  We are, to be sure, challenged as we engage in the process of awakening, but always a growing sense of joy, of the extraordinary gifts this one simple, potent practice brings.  In this, we experience meditation as both sublime and immensely practical. It is the gift that keeps on giving.

Like oil pouring into every state, this extraordinary natural process, floods our awareness--- how is this showing up? Always we connect the dots. 
 
Meditate.