You can never step into same river twice!
Photo Copyright Suresh Gundappa 2007 Buy this photo from my gallery
Nothing is permanent; life is a flux. Heraclitus has said that you cannot step twice in the same river. It is impossible to step twice in the same river because the river has flowed on; everything has changed. And not only has the river flowed on, you have also flowed on.
You are also different; you are also a river flowing. Like River you also have quite a lot of things moving in your life, Happiness , Depression, Joy and Sorrow all are moving at the top of your life. But something inside you is never changing and omnipresent. The moment you can find that center which never changes, Then everything about your life also changes.
If any of you have ever dived into sea( scuba-dive) and explored underneath then there is one thing which becomes very clear underneath the roaring sea-top ; there is utter calmness under the sea. The deeper inside you go under the sea , you will find more stillness.
That’s why Scuba diving is such a meditative experience. Meditation is nothing but finding center inside you which is never changing. Meditation is art of staying calm at sea top. Once you realize your center, Then you are just an actor at top. You will know everything you know and feel now also will pass.
The moment you find center you will also find Love! Love radiating from you and it is never changing! Meditation is way to find that never changing Love.
Love
Suresh
Eloquent and true.
Is that a river there? I love the color. And the river seems so alive as if calling , “come take a dive, feel the water its so cool.”
Yes Eloi, it’s a river in South Coastal India.
Wow! What a nice picture up there. So loveable. Thanks for sharing. i love it. Dont ever change or remove .pls. Its really nice to look at. Can i grab that too and post it there?
Sure Eloi, All yours
Love is elusive as the idea of permanence, but I keep looking for both, nonetheless
Nice post and picture
lol i cant copu the picture. your personal picture i mean.
Story from a mailing list…
Two farmers own wells. The well of the first farmer is dry. He gets water only when rainfall fills it accidentally and irregularly. That farmer is insecure and apprehensive; he is at the mercy of chance. The well of the second farmer is fed naturally and constantly by an underground stream. That farmer is relaxed and unworried. When living from our True Source, we are relaxed and unworried.
Is it true that relaxation precedes meditation? A yoga teacher once told me that once you know how to relax then you’ll also find it easy to meditate. Just like in swimming, you will never learn how to float unless you know how to relax first.
Dear People,
This has nothing to do with your webpage. How are you. Fine? Good. This has to do with meditation. Don’t tell anyone, but I’m sick and tired and happy. Mediation is the art of going to your death by realizing something, and then drawing back.
Dean Martin
You cannot step into the same river even once.
I loved it JIm, you are right You can’t step into River even Once!