Shree: Traditions

 

Shree: Traditions

There comes a time, when one comes across something extremely valuable that one has believed for quite sometime and for the valuable thing to be caught by the mind, it requires discipline and training. Silencing or steadying the vibrations is a lifelong practice – and many times perhaps nothing would be realized regarding the Truth. However when the Truth gets “revealed” or when the self transforms, let us not forget that it has also been the tremendous effort of the mind to evolve for all that time. Without this effort, perhaps the transformation would not have been possible. Hence all experiences, turmoils, fears, struggles and courage – all are learning experiences to take one to become blissful and quiet. Without the creation of thoughts and sequences, the destination would not have been attained. Hence all thoughts, their creation, their linkages and their changes are very important to happen to “us”, no matter how much confusing they may seem at a particular time.

Subject is about “traditions” and one way to define traditions is continuation of something valuable to human existence or human mindscape and its continuance through time. Continuation is not to be confused with copying. Continuation means to hand down to next generatons, to change and adapt, to make it relevant to change and so on – so the core of the values is not lost even though time changes.

Why does this become important to be considered for our experiences? I think there are two dimensions in human consciousness – one of them keeps changing and the other serves as an “anchor” to change (making us feel at “home” in the changing lifescape. Another word can mean “to belong”). Therefore change is seen “with respect” to some anchor point. Or change is “measured against” an anchor. Or change becomes meaningful when seen through the lens of anchor. Without the anchor, all changes seem utterly meaningless perhaps and this word of “meaning” itself may have both the components of change and anchor/ tradition.

To belong to this world means to exist in meaningful memory; in traditions; in inheritance; in continuance; in adaptations; in changing world anchored in meanings. Hence we have spaces and forms expressing this dimension of eternal world of traditions or accumulated wisdom or values.

Tradition or wisdom or anchor of people may also mean “patterns” inherently revealing life or consciousness. Regardless of whatever somersaults one may take, one should not loose sight of uncovering patterns of universal connections. This is how we belong to eternal existence. Without memory, there is no now.

The greatest of values or wisdom is to be able to “realize” who one is. All actions, thoughts, feelings that keep endorsing this value are to be undertaken till the Eureka moment happens. Tradition does not mean any bondage or a chain. It offers a framework for our experiences to be accepted, valued, enhanced, evolved into something far greater than our own mind and body. We belong.

Hari Om.