An ocean is a unity of many vital elements merged together to become one organic wholeness. You can separate one drop and that drop becomes an ocean unto its self, a microcosmic expression of a vast flowing, life sustaining, macrocosm.
To know a drop of water is to know the whole ocean. Each droplet contains the essence and the miracle is that you can return that drop of water into any ocean in the world and it is absorbed back into the whole. It merges wholly and unconditionally.
This is much like human consciousness. Every individual droplet of consciousness is connected to a greater consciousness. But by a phenomenon called ego we believe ourselves to be separate from the ocean of consciousness that is the living, breathing universe.
Until we merge we experience separation and a longing to unite. This often goes misunderstood and people turn to relationships to find fulfillment or turn to other things to fill the void.
When we were in our mother’s womb we were one with our mother, nurtured, sustained, connected. We were loved and protected. We had all we needed. Then one day we were brought into the world to begin discovering life and all its lessons.
For a time, after after birth the mother and child energy is still connected. If you can recall, when you were apart from your mother you felt the pain of separation and cried until you were nestled back into her loving arms.
Like all children as we matured the separation took place. We learned to stand on our own two feet and we learned to walk away from the love of the mother and be independent.
We have separated from Mother Nature. We have forgotten to be in gratitude for the sustenance she has provided to all. We have been given soil to grow trees and plants for fruits and vegetables, the sun for warmth, the rains to quench our thirst, the air to breathe. But somewhere in our evolution we have forgotten to honor the mother – Mother Nature in this case – and we can see the consequences of this separation – poisoned water systems, destroyed forests, toxic air, damaged ozone layer, and so forth.
We have also forgotten the Divine Mother, the sacred connection between each human life and the eternal love of the universe. This universe is the womb from which all life has been brought into being. We have forgotten the infinite love that awaits us and instead seek fulfillment in the material instead of what we could call the maternal – the Adi Shakti, which is eternal and everlasting.
To be engrossed with the material only is to be in the transitory and not the eternal. To find the eternal one must remember the divine feminine in all one’s actions, that is, to honor and love all life, to grow in wisdom and understanding, to live simply and honestly in accord with spiritual principals, and to serve the world in gratitude knowing that you are part of it all and all of it is part of you.
I mentioned that a drop of water is a separate ocean unto its self. But it is when that single drop unites with many, many other drops that it becomes something far greater. It is a case of the sum of the whole being greater than the parts. This is experienced during group meditation, for example.
Something magical happens when people meditate together. Instead of being individual drops, they begin to merge and form a powerful ocean. This group energy can be used to uplift global consciousness – not just of meditators, but of normal everyday people, too. Criminals can be elevated and even plants and animals can be elevated by the efforts of compassionate, loving, and healing thoughts by concerted meditators.
We are constantly being guided upwards to heavenly realms, but we sabotage ourselves by rigid thinking, misguided belief systems, or self-serving interests that benefit the one and not the many. Through meditation, devotion and surrender we invite the creative energy – this Adi Shakti power – to fill us and we no longer function as an individual; we become a vessel for the Divine Mother, the primal creative energy, to guide us to truth and pure living.
Like a drop of water contains the whole ocean, each human being contains the whole universe. To surrender ego and self-serving interests we lose nothing but gain the backing of cosmic consciousness. With this reservoir of creative energy comes the ability to manifest a beautiful and kind world.
A vast ocean that embodies love and compassion is needed now more than ever to guide humanity and all life forms upwards. A single drop cannot effect the world with the same force of an entire ocean, therefore, unite dear yogis and merge with the divine. Become oceanic.