6 Harmonizing Quality
In 2015, I wrote an essay about religion, specifically on reconciling quality which is both static and dynamic.
It's conclusion (and our point of departure) is:
A reconciliation is possible only if we first identify the two contending opposites - static and dynamic. When we realise the purposes they served, we begin to bridge the gap. Then we can bring them closer, by imbibing the static with more universal truths revealed by the mystic, and rebuilding the faith of the individual in the static as it evolves back into its older, purer ideal.
In this essay, I will try and establish the necessity of harmony between our contending thoughts and ideologies.
"Life is a waterfall, we're one in the river and one again after the fall" - SOAD
While we are falling, we're a little disoriented, scared and busy differentiating ourselves from the other water drops. That one is green (because it's reflecting a tree) and this one is white (for the sky above) and I am dark (for there's a rock just ahead of me).
Aren't we all the same water that should be delighting to dance with the air?
There are so many gradations to our thinking just as there are different designs for each leaf and snowflake, only we are self aware so we criticize and judge this or other [thought] pattern.
How can there be ought existing outside of God or in disharmony with the cosmic existence? Each of us is a perfect reflection of existence-consciousness-bliss, only we are not fully in tune with that knowing.
Would that I could be baptized in the holy waters that their bliss would remain as a gushing sound perennially in my head, as Sri Yukteswar Giri explains in his "The Holy Science".
It is only religious arrogance that informs me that my beliefs are superiour and thus, yours, inferior. I say, as Sage Vyasa did before me, that each of us has an individuated truth (of our being) and an individualistic nature. Swadharma and Svabhava.
This necessity for harmony is a necessity of life. Harmony ought to be perennial as the grass, and would be if we stopped analyzing and intellectualizing everything, interrupting the flow of perfection that surrounds us.
I think we have now evolved to the point where, as GB Shaw said about this old vedic wisdom of ours, that the crudest idolator and the most profound methodist are equally at home with it.
When you see the world as perfect, there is no more nitpicking or judging or arguing. Each of God's creation is accepted for what it is, and shown love.
Our Mother does not care what colour we paint our face or tongue we speak when we play our part in the Lila or cosmic play. She just wants us to be happy, and so we should be, in service to the Lord.
Jagat Kula Ki Prem or "All Love to the World Family"
Pieces in "Powers Within:"
- 19. Love An earnest plea to love one another "for it is only when we express love that we become closer to our true self".
- 20. Teeming With Life How the world can be if Builders (Change Agents) were all given a chance to "reshape that stream of activity around us until the possibility of greatness is achieved".
- 23. Perfection Another poem in the Spirit series, Perfection tells us how life can be when we are inspired - "deep seated in our mind it liberates".
- 39. Striving As the poem ends, it makes you ponder "in striving we find we've grown, our hearts widening, - our minds reaching to the far galaxies glimmering".
- 43. Toi For my teachers Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, written at their ashram in Pondicherry. "We seem on the brink - of total annihilation our pilot extinguished with no time to pause and think - to follow our highest right as dictated by that voice from within".
- 89. Time travelling Jointly, Outside Auroville. "Come back and let's build that tomorrow - A vision so fierce as to fill our marrow - Remember our true path as once we were led - Blood sweat and tears, so easily shed".
- 189. Dawn On this pristine world your blessings send,O lord
- 199. Warriors Wake up and live ecstatic, Life can be fantastic.
- 5. Musings Musings Interrupted (thoughts on the way to Pondicherry in 2013 - spiritual pilgrimage)
- 12. Let There Be Love Random trip on love and caring for our fellow human.
- 14. Quality A plea not to judge other on religious grounds, but to let a true spirit of harmony reign
- 31. ID 2018 Imran's message / video of Independance Day 2018
- 35. Messages 2020 Messages on Independance day and 2020 Eid
- 1. Cry Liberty
- 2. Joyland Welcome
- 3. Catalyst
- 6. Harmonizing Quality
- 267. Power Supreme A prayer for the power to go out and do good in this world.
- 269. Sensitives On how a brighter future is possible if we let breathe the sensitive side inside us.
- 303. Devakalam Look to your lordand let hisheaven manifest faster.
- 305. WOW I'll help you instead of reeling from the light.
- 323. Matter or Spirit Imploring us to fashion things with our own hands and be filled with passion - for that is when spirit arises in matter.
- 347. Sincerity Embodying a future spirit, this poem speaks of desirable qualities, offering hope that "just when your faith is flagging, an angel appearing... Out of nowhere will give you a boost and you the pinnacle will surmount"
- 349. Let Go2 This one about letting go our lower tendencies and living in the light
- 352. Courage A from the heart confession about my less than perfect self / appreciation for the family that loves and supports me.
- 376. Aspirations Feeling lost, I soon pick up my spirits as I think of my gurus and their legacy
- 390. Ananda About fighting for truth and Mother Earth, this one ends with a strong call to have a day "glorious as we dreamt. When we decided to fight for good"
- 405. Build Another poem inspired by my Gurus, on the special day when I visited the city they sanctified and hallowed.
- 465. The Poets Daemon Enough talk of daemons and sprites and spirits that would possess a poets imagination, lead him to daydream and continually obsess - What these fellows need is some strong grounding in reality.
- 506. Weep Plea from a pacifist to humanity to spread love not be embroiled in hate.