Daily Reflections - Everyday Metaphysics

Everyday Metaphysics.

Metphysics is a less known and even lesser understood word. Simply put it is the philosophy behind an act. We can understand this by a simple example-brooming is an act while cleaning is the metaphysics behind it. The physical act can be small but its metaphysics can be huge- it all depends on us-our thought –our own intention!

As a practioner in esoteric studies,many people come to me for “remedies” for various problems.What they are looking for are complicated solutions to simple problems.The more incomprehensive the cure the better its efficacy,that is what they feel.In my opinion our daily life is replete with solutions-the “remedies”for which we flock to people outside.Divine has as if spread innumerable clues to complete the jigsaw puzzle.

Let me take you to the time when Shabari (of Ramayana) was about to get married. She saw many animals getting readied to be sacrificed as a preparation for the forthcoming wedding. She was horrified and ran away from such a marriage which needed the life of innocent beings. She came to the ashram of rishi Matang. Rishi Matang was about to leave his physical body, seeing the dilemma on Shabari’s face,as she had nowhere else to go, he advised her to stay on in the ashram and wait for Lord Rama who would free her from the miseries of life and death. She stayed on cleaning and scrubbing her little hut everyday to welcome her lord. She did this for many, many years till the young Shabari became old and then one day her lord arrived. And then as they say she got back her youth and ascended to the Heavens. In my opinion what Shabari did was cleaning and scrubbing her inner consciousness off all the impressions till her inner being was so clean that she could see the image of SELF in it. The act was simple but the metaphysics is profound. The simple act of scrubbing and cleaning can actually erase the painful scars of past. Washing our clothes daily can be helpful in cleaning negativity from aura and our life as well. Diligently clean away all the stains from your dress till it is absolutely sparkling and see the change in your thoughts! We all know cooking a meal with love and pure concern for the health of the family or the thought that we are cooking for the Divine makes the dish really tasty. Spring cleaning the house makes us feel refreshed, even though we have merely cleaned only the house!

One day people of Shirdi saw Sai Baba grinding wheat on the grinding stone. They were surprised as they knew that Baba did not have a family and he subsisted on alms alone. After the wheat had been ground Baba asked the people to throw away the flour on the outskirts of the village. This further perplexed the people. On asking Baba said that he had ground and thrown away the disease of cholera out of the village in the shape of wheat flour. Truly the village of Shirdi remained safe from cholera. Here in we can see the intention behind the simple act –intentionally Baba ground the germs of the disease in the form of wheat slowly but surely the whole day and threw it out. It is said that Baba lived in Shirdi for sixty years and did this grinding of the wheat almost everyday. He did not grind the wheat alone but ground the innumerable mental and physical afflictions of his devotees. Baba had the firm conviction that self realisation is not possible till all our impulses, desires, sins and the three gunas –sattva,rajas and tamas and ego are ground and got ridoff. So simple grinding can lead to enlightenment –if the metaphysics behind it is so. Saint Kabir saw a woman grinding corn and felt as if he was getting crushed under the wheel of worldly existence.His guru Nipatniranjan said “Do not be afraid, hold fast to the handle of knowledge of this mill,and do not wander far away from the same,but turn inward to the centre,and you are sure to be saved.”(quoted from Sai Satchritra”)

We perform innumerable acts everyday for our daily needs we can relate them to any problem we are facing in life and put a suitable intention behind every act. Then this metaphysics can change our life too!

Forever in Gratitude to Her Divine Grace!