Shree: to belong

 

Shree: to belong

One wishes to belong/ express/ remember/ connect with Existence in a given form of perception. All forms of expressions (or perceptions) come from consciousness and hence all forms have a core of consciousness within them or all forms “remember” consciousness. This means they are aware of some aspect of creation and hence respond to stimuli (or signals) of time and space (which again is a creation of consciousness). What we call as vibrations of consciousness result in all scales (or are present in all scales of manifestations). The vibrations ‘manifest’ as motion or as movement and we refer this as Potential of becoming. These vibrations physically create a form and the form is aware of its position in the web or contributes to the web of activity. Perhaps there is no such thing as ‘physical’ – all is a phenomenon which includes force and matter or physical attributes or strictly speaking – grades of vibrations from subtle to gross.

We perform rituals and if one traces the ‘origins’ of any ritual activity (Puja of an object/ sacredness/ ritual movement and so on), one may uncover dimensions of connections to cosmos, interpretation of cosmogony, relation with geography/ territory, life forms, life forces, humans, social relations and the history of this relationship and the expression of this relationship into an activity. In fact territory as a word may have the mentioned relationship and more than the physical geography (as a trigger), territory indicates an imagination of a connection or a construct of belongingness.

The inquiry is that an activity can indicate all of this – from individual to collective to wisdom to imagination. So this means the creation of ‘meaning’. As times change, how does meaning get altered? And if activity continues without any recognition of changing times, is that supposed to be a dead ritual? And in changing times, if a connection or the meaning of connection is carried ahead but the expression completely changes, then isn’t that to be accepted?

The topic is vast. It says what it means to transcend, to belong, to transmit, to carry forward, to continue, to change, to hand it over. Every generation creates a meaning, without which existence for us is not possible. Individualism, intellectualism is also a meaning and has brought its own set of imagination and a character of connection. One can debate on probably which imagination seems more sustainable and which is more harmful and if these terms are an integral aspect of mind or are they only physical expressions?

The inquiry for us needs to take us to mindscape as it reflects onto the outside physical fabric of space and time. During reflection onto outside, the linkages are perhaps never logical but mysterious. I like to believe that there may not be anything as ‘true logic’. Else things would be dead.

Make room for everything that informs perception. For all you know, it might save mankind!

Hari Om.