Gathered Blooms

The poem “Still Water” reflects Oneness, the Oneness in Stillness despite the apparent duality and movement. The drop in the ocean and the ocean in the drop is but water. Stillness reigns, Drops of mind emerge and Drop back into the Ocean of Stillness. Every drop, a little ocean. In the stillness of the vast waters, Small whirlpools with each drop on the ocean’s breast, Still, still in the depths. Ocean in the drop, Drop in the ocean, All is water All is still, Stillness reigns, Stillness remains, Silently I am!

Om Namo Bhagavate Shri Ramanaya I am not the body nor am I the mind (Please read the previous posts for details) So 'Who am I?' The small booklet 'Who am I' of Ramana Maharshi is enough to dispel all doubts. What is left over is a vibrant silence, being-ness or consciousness. So if  I am this silence or consciousness, then the essence of everyone, should be the same. A oneness in consciousness is experienced (Universal oneness) Division can exercise only with the body or the form as 'you,' 'me,' 'they,' 'them' 'it' etc. Division is out of question beyond forms (body), (IE) when we understand that we are not the body. A small exercise suggested by Swami Ashokananda in His 'Not many but one' is really interesting. When one happens to see a person, a dog, a tree or anything else for that matter, He asks one to pierce through the form to identify the oneness in consciousness, spirit or silence (all means the same). Th...