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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 1, 24th April 2023

erroneously believe that this is our identity, and planted the seed knows the inevitable
to think and feel and act like these hidden destiny. He waters it patiently with Love and
prompters is our nature. spreads over it the light of the sun to quicken
the process. So too, the mother who holds the
But our true nature is divine in essence and foetus in her womb feeds it with her heart’s
is covered up by these surface movements strength and blood until it is strong and
of restless agitation and the feverish pursuit ready to emerge. This is the sacrifice that the
of desires. To discover our true nature and Divine performs while we are still labouring
express it through a developed and perfect in the darkness. We may not know it or
instrument is therefore the main aim towards understand it, others may not even be aware
which all our secondary aims are preparing that something is happening within the soil
us. Yoga gives us back our true identity and or the womb but the changing seasons will
true nature. This process of self-discovery, the bring out what is held back within.
discovery of our true Self or the secret soul
and, the process of manifesting it through a This is the journey of man. It takes place
flawless instrumental nature, growing more first under the shroud of ignorance. We live
and more perfect by the action of the Divine mechanically as it were, knowing not what
Grace, is what we call as transformation. purpose our life serves or where the caravan
of life is taking us. We know not our destiny
or our aim. We live according to the plan
imposed upon us by our equally ignorant
surroundings. Our physical parents bring
in their own ambitions, the society has its
own expectations, the schoolteachers have
their own assessment and judgments. But
each plant must blossom according to its
own inbuilt design or programming. Our
wants and desires and ignorant hopes
A New Birth cannot decide whether a seed will bloom
into a thorny beautiful rose or the tall and
The process of transformation is akin to shade-less palm tree that yet quenches the
dying to our old self and the progressive thirst of a desert traveller.
emergence of the new from within. The New
is already there within us as a seed, just as So too, the world and our selfs, when
the butterfly is there in the caterpillar and plunged in a state of ignorance, know not the
the child is already there in the fertilised purpose for which we are born. But a time
cell that has bound itself to the womb of comes when we wake up to the call and start
darkness. For a long time, the change takes packing our bags for the intended purpose
place within this womb of darkness, just as and the great adventure and climb that
a seed grows inside the earth unnoticed by summons us from the summits of nature.
anyone since it is yet to emerge to the surface. The right moment has arrived, the season
But the gardener who has prepared the soil has changed and slowly or suddenly there

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