We live on two planes:

One is ‘plane of the mind’ and another is ‘plane of the non-mind’, the plane when you are on the periphery of your being and the plane when you are at the centre of your being.

Every circle has a centre. You are the periphery and you are the circle, there is a centre. Without the centre, you cannot be; there is a nucleus of your being and at that centre you are already a Buddha, a Christ, a Prophet, one who has already arrived home.

On the periphery, you are in the world – in the mind, in dreams, desires, and anxieties, and you are both. There are bound to be moments when you will see that you have a few moments like a Buddha or Christ – the same grace, awareness and silence. Meditation helps to attain balance between both.

There will be moments, glimpses of your own centre. They cannot be permanent, again and again; you will be thrown back to the periphery. As, most revered poet and visionary, a ‘Nobel Price’ winner Ravinder Nath Tagore said; “Every now and then I see glimpses of you, why not always? Clouds arise in my heart and prevent your vision”. But by and by you will become capable of moving from periphery to the centre and from centre to periphery very smoothly – just as you walk in and out of your house.

Through awareness and understanding it is possible to bring balance and harmony in the movement of both without getting fixated anywhere. These two can become your wings; they are not against each other.

They may be balanced in opposite directions – they have to be, if both the wings are on the same side, the bird cannot fly into the sky – they have to be balancing, they have to be in opposite directions, but they still belong to the same bird and serve the same bird.

Your outside and inside are your wings. This has to be remembered deeply as mind has a tendency to fixate.

Go out without getting lost; remember your way back to home. Each day you should balance the outer and the inner – ‘Be in the world but don’t be of the world.’

Learning the difference, between doing and non-doing.

A man of understanding becomes godly in the sense that he is in the world and yet he remains out of it, on the periphery and yet he remains mindful of his centre, his inner light burns bright.

By:  Meera Sharma

© 2007 Meera Sharma

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