Let’s Return to Nature

Praveen Vikkath

Rain is one of the most loved natural forces that create a feeling of awe as well as nostalgia in the hearts of an individual. When it rains, it pours down straight into the hearts, giving birth to hope  as if a bud begins to germinate in the tree. This experience is at the same time, extremely creative and  generates a kind of pain that is essential for art and creativity. As an exuberance of deep meditation, Buddha finds this pain as part of one’s greatness.

It is from that creative and poetic self-centered disposition that a Buddha grows into transcendence where he recognizes himself as universe and dissolves in the Mother Nature.  Osho describes this experience as ” one breathes in the entire Universe to himself and in exhalation, the universe breathes him to its innermost core.”

In the realization of the Nature, there exists no selfishness and there is no more a concept of ‘I’ as one realizes that he is nature itself and everything he owns is given by Mother Nature. One realizes that even the most insignificant things we use in this material world too are also a product of some one’s creativity that his soul is pulsating in that object.

This understanding paves the way for a life of gratitude wherein we drop all self-centered dispositions and experience the oneness with the nature. It is here that we find the ultimate internal silence.

The only way to achieve that state is meditation wherein we return to our self and the self of the entire universe. In this perfect internal silence, one transforms to become intermittent and indefinite like the sky or like a tree, rooted but spread beyond boundaries.