Introduction
In this post I want to share a strange observation. At times
when I have gone to the beach (Indian Ocean) I have seen people either surfing,
swimming, sun tanning and reading, sun tanning and sleeping and some walking or
running it seems for exercise. This is all fairly normal. Though there are
always a one or two that don’t fit into this norm. That is they are either
walking or sitting carrying inside themselves it seems some sort of grief,
loneliness or deep contemplation.
Observation
Well, many times I have gone to the ocean to think out a
problem, to seek some emotional relief or solace and to contemplate on the
profound vastness. Once I remember walking on the beach and there was a middle
aged lady sitting down facing the ocean and crying bitterly, and yelling out at
the ocean and the air. Perhaps someone had died or something had gone wrong in
her life.
It is my observation that the ocean lends itself to that. I
think that instinctively and deep within us we tend to go to the ocean for some
solace, for peace for a solution and to connect with vastness, with a great
power that is beyond us and capable of helping us.
The Ocean a Great Power
I think that we see or recognise a great power in the Ocean
and that Ocean reminds us of our Divinity or the Divinity a power that is both
a Mother and a Father and is beyond our human life and being beyond it can
assist us, can give us profound answers in the form of wisdom which will be
like a magic balm to our hurt or suffering.
Whenever I go to a river or the ocean I almost always feel a
movement of calming in my solar plexus, a great calm that I can not achieve in
my life at home or at work.
Indeed physically the one ocean of which all the five oceans
and all the seas except the land locked ones and the great rivers are part is
the greatest power on the Earth and covers 71% approximately of the Earth’s
surface.
Like a Mother
Having heard that the Ocean is like a Mother to us, definitely
strikes a cord with me. It is so natural for us to go to our Mother inner or
external for comfort, for solace and for assistance. The same as with the
Ocean, we instinctively seek from the ocean comfort, solace and wisdom, because
we know it is the chaos or the sperm of our Mother Earth. Our body is a product
of the Earth and if the ocean is the spermatic waters of the Earth we come from
the ocean or linked to it in our very deep origins or roots.
Also the ocean being the chaos of the Earth, it is akin to the
chaos of the cosmos, the absolute where we have our profound origin. In the
Absolute we were happy and in comfort and the absolute was the place where we
all left our happiness and comfort and entered into the pains and sufferings of
creation.
Analogy for Our Mind
The ocean is also like our subconscious where the clear
parts are our conscious mind, the parts that we can see and the deep is like
our subconscious, which is the parts of ourself that we can not see and do not
know. The light of our consciousness has to penetrate deep into the waters of
our subconscious for us to see it.
More than 70% Water
We are also in our nature more than seventy percent water,
so the ocean and water are in our nature as human beings.
Great Power that Commands Respect
We also recognise the power of the ocean, when the waves
rise and crash and we know that if the ocean were to rebel we would be dead. We
have deep in us a profound respect for the ocean. Such a great power has to be
able to help us in our relatively small life.
Conclusion
It can be beneficial if we can go to the beach, or to the
water side to contemplate the great vastness of the Ocean and the Divinity. Go there to receive the calming effect of a
river or an ocean on our emotional centre and mind. To breathe in the great
vitality of the ocean is very beneficial as well. Go there to connect to a
great power that reminds us of our own vastness and power of our inner divinity.
Many rivers ad water sources around the world are for some reason regarded as
sacred. Water after all is the source of life.
End (436).
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