| Riding Transcendental Waves: Part 2 |
Page 1 of 2  Riding Transcendental Waves Surfing and Meditation An interview with Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler) Part 2 Q: Would you agree that the surfers who are trying to tear it apart, rather than harmonize, are not succeeding? Jagad Guru: They are not satisfied. In the first place because a person is not completely satisfied with the tube ride for the reasons I mentioned earlier he wants to dominate the wave. You think you’re so powerful you’re ripping the wave apart – but let’s see you go out to Sunset, turn the wave around and make it go out to sea. Are you such a powerful surfer? No, you must go with it. This is another point. Trying to tear it apart is a manifestation of another characteristic of the spirit soul. Not only do you want to be in harmony, but you also need to express your individuality. You need to be active within that harmony. So you can be perfectly in harmony with the wave and yet dancing with it. Being in harmony with it. Relating with it. Although you’re in harmony with it and in tune with it you’re also being propelled. While you’re in that harmony you can dance with it – you can drive off the bottom, then hit off the flip and fly back down. You’re going with it in oneness but you’re simultaneously also expressing your individuality. So surfing then shows that impersonalism – seeing God as simply being void impersonal force – is not enough. You need to relate, you are still an individual and you still have to be active within that harmony. When we’re talking about being one with God we’re not talking about being nothing – we’re talking about having an active, loving relationship with Him, having one’s entire life based on this harmonious position as a foundation, but within that harmonious oneness there is variety. The idea of becoming nothing or void is not satisfying to the soul either. Spiritual life means oneness yet simultaneous diversity. I’m one with God, yet still I’m separate from Him, I’m an individual, and God’s an individual. Yet I’m one with Him in love and will. |
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