Recently, I asked the Pandit here at Mount Soma’s temple if he knew the one thing that was the sole problem with the world today. Sensing that I had something specific in mind, he looked at me inquisitively. I told him, “The imbalance between the Transcendent and the relative.” From what felt to me like the depth of his soul, he nodded in agreement.
The relative world is seductive. It pulls at you. It demands attention. It compels you to turn your back on the depth of your being (the Transcendent) and look to the surface, the relative. Even to the degree that you can even have a hard time sitting to meditate, you are compelled to turn your back on your true grandeur, your wisdom, the root of life, the anchor, the Transcendental depth of your being. That unbalancing, overwhelming compulsion toward the relative is, in and of itself, the problem with not only individual life, but also with global consciousness.
The relative calls you away from your wisdom. It compels you to cling to a paradigm, a perspective. It forces you to keep loading your plate with relative obsessions until the plate spills over and overtakes your being.
Do not allow that to happen. Regular meditation brings balance to your life and to the world. The rest is polarizing, relative identity. The foundation of balanced living is the Transcendent. It is the root that brings fulfillment to relative life.
Regular meditation helps keep me in balance which is extremely hard lately.
I am responding to this post although my comments aren’t exactly “profound.” I am grateful for the reminder of something I have no doubt to be true. Yet If I believe this as strongly as I think then why am I not meditating daily as I was taught? I don’t know if the answer to my question matters.
Simply, beautiful.
Jai Siva Sankara
Thank you for your comment and question Bill. Because of it, I actually paid attention to what I was doing that delayed my meditations this weekend . . . The little things that distracted me . . Interesting.