Celebrate togetherness
THE ILLUSTRIOUS American poe, Walt Whitman wrote:
"Have patience and indulgence toward the people... re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your very soul, and your flesh shall become a great poem." In our daily life, we tend to become impatient with people who relate to us. It is because we lack sensitivity that comes with a meditative lifestyle. We become judgmental about others and imprison people in that image -- and we become imprisoned ourselves in that image.
The result is that we then don't relate with real people -- the image relates with another image. And this is all a big illusion -- what our Upanishads describe as maya. We are continuously being deceived and deluded by this maya.
Mystic Kabir says:
Maya Mahathagini Ham Jani (This illusion is the great deception.) We tend to value what we have been fed by scriptures, books and schools -- but we fail to read the real books, the people. Every person is a book that pulsates with life.
We are all souls embodied in different colours, shapes and sizes. But what is common among us is that we have consciousness. And, when we realise this, our face and flesh start radiating from within. We become transparent. We come to realise the oneness of Life.
This realisation can lead us to experience the poetry of life. Walt Whitman declares: "I celebrate myself. And this myself includes every self, all souls.
Celebration is a togetherness -- it is not lonely.
Osho says:
Life has been given to you to create, to rejoice and celebrate.
When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
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