Life is a gift!

Lake Shrine, LA

20th July 05

"Life is a gift asking to be unwrapped and the ribbons sit waiting inside me"

Sitting in this beautiful Lake Shrine, I can't help but reflect how grateful I feel to life for having given me these awesome opportunities to travel and learn so much about the world and myself in the process. I keep reflecting on this question in my most quiet moments:

How can the wave know itself to be part of the greater reality that it is also the ocean?

Many times have I felt that I am a wave in the ocean of humanity, asking to wake up to the reality that beneath the illusion of name and form, I am the ocean, I am one with everything that "IS".

Reminds me of an interesting story. Two waves are playfully bouncing along the ocean, not a care in the world. Suddenly one of them looks terrified. His friend asks him what happened to which he replies: "Look, look, we are nearing the shore and are going to crash onto the beach. Are we going to die? What will happen to us?" His sagely friend, the other wave replies, " Silly, we are the ocean. We were created here and this is where we will merge back into. We took on a name and form and got lost in that illusion of a separate identity. Wake up, we are all one and the same. The important thing is not the name or form, but the essence, the gist, the juice beneath the layer of name and form."

How can I wake up from this illusion?

In service,

Sheetal

Love, peace and happiness is not a destination to be reached out there, but a space within ourselves that we must realize.