Ananda, Bliss - Recognizing Inner Space
Ananda, Bliss - Recognizing
There are so many mysteries in that inner space of mine. I have sought to know some of them but usually they come when I do not seek. There are those incredible moments of astounding peace that comes over me betimes, when I least expect them. Those times come as Eckhart explains, as when I am listening to the sound of rain or wind, clouds scuttling across a wild blue sky, moments when a stranger moves me, and space is alive in me and around me. A deep and abiding sense of well-being and contentment come over me… the feeling of ‘ananda’ - the bliss of Being. (p234)
Eckhart says: “You cannot become aware of yourself, because you are always aware of something else. You are continually distracted by form. Even when you seem to be aware…you have made yourself into an object, a thought form, and so what you are aware of is thought, not yourself.” (p233)And he also calls it “Sweetness of Being” (p235) He quotes Nietzsche: “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.” (p235
The saga of the soul’s journey is evoked in these moments: The happiness, peace and contentment of within. It is not the thing that provoked it, but something within that surges to that moment, I feel. Manifestations of the subconscious or infinite Universal consciousness take over as a door is opened for them. There are really no secrets, merely closed doors that are waiting for that blink of an eye moment when I am ready for such profoundly evocative insight and experience. “The heart knoweth, the soul never forgetteth.” (Edgar Cayce, Reading 5351-1)
The body is the soul’s shield, as well as its barrier. The soul receives awareness through cracks in our everyday reality and is not restricted to this elastic skin that shrouds it. It is a great ocean that ebbs and flows within us and sometimes crashes over the lip of consciousness and floods us with awe, peace, comfort, no matter the outside circumstances. I truly believe we are spirits in human form and that, betimes, we feel that constriction. It is evocatively drawn to experience the oneness and allows the physical form to experience that spiritual connection in moments of sublime peace and beauty and that awe I spoke of. The body is a container, a temple, which connects the soul to earth and earthly matters that it, too, must learn to deal with. Like body remembers the vessel that bore it, the soul also remembers Whom and What it was separated from. It longs for its home, as well.
Being closed off from the influence of soul closes the body off from those things that can stir the soul within. We constantly feed body but ofttimes, in ignorance, starve our souls through the many ways that we deny it. Our souls are never fulfilled and we waste our lives trying to fill it through non-spiritual ways. It yearns and keens within us, for attention. We feed body and the desire of the soul cannot attain that oneness it so needs and desires. It continually engages the body in moments as signs of what is needed and if we do not bodily connect with it, we suffer. Lord, how we suffer.
Connect to those moments of inner space and allow true spiritual tides to wash over us so that it can leave tidal pools of spiritual richness as reminders and signposts that we are still apart of the one. Ananda Bliss!
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