Equanimity~Samatvam

• Emerson – A revolutionary mind. I see parallels between the Vedic seers who explored consciousness and the nature of Reality with such vigor, letting seemingly foundational pillars fall by the wayside, fearless yet compassionate. These seers helped us understand that not only is Reality not what we think it is, but also not a cause for fear. This they pursued with so much love that we can melt in that understanding, liberating our minds from the prison bars of stale thinking.

• Some of Emerson’s thoughts on Nature:

1. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and   philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

2. I have confidence in the laws of morals as of botany. I have planted maize in my field every June for seventeen years and I never knew it come up strychnine. My parsley, beet, turnip, carrot, buck-thorn, chestnut, acron, are as sure. I believe that justice produces justice, and injustice injustice.

3. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

Love

Rathi