We use words like touched, moved, and inspired to express feelings arising from the contact of our senses and minds with things radiating pure truth, goodness, and beauty. At such moments of being overwhelmed or uplifted, often to the point of trance, we are in a body-mind-soul interface or a zone transcending it. Feeling connected to the nature or to the supreme can also take us to rapture .
Serge and I have recently experienced such a moment when a redpoll, a small bird migrating to southern Canada in winter, displayed an amazing feat of survival after banging againt our kitchen window and falling, almost dead. She (it was a female redpoll, as we googled out later) moved her head after a couple of minutes and came out of the flat horizontal position to take a half upright position after some 10 long minutes. As we were worrying about her remaining life as a crippled bird, she proudly stood up in a sudden move like a phoenix from the ashes, hopped towards the staircase to our kitchen door and took a trial flight from one step to another. From the fifth step, she took a surprisingly agile flight and landed on the garden-side handrail. Then she made a sudden u-turn and landed on the window frame exactly vis-à-vis our eyes. So three of us, this beautiful tiny creature and these two awestruck witnesses of a small wonder, shared a short long moment eyes to eyes to each other's heart's content. It was a thrilling moment of feeling one with the nature, a fragment of the universe where all beings occupying its space and time are interlinked in a network called life.
In such touching moments, body, mind, and soul, the three dimensions of our being that have separate existence in our normal waking state are seamlessly aligned to form a harmonious whole, and if the union is one-pointed without any dispersion, this point can be easily transcended. This transcendental state is the fourth dimension, turiya, a Sanskrit word simply meaning fourth. While the English word fourth is an ordinal number and nothing more, its Sanskrit counterpart turiya embraces literal, figurative, philosophical, and esoteric aspects such that it should be translated in fourth, trance, beatitude, ecstasy, elation, transcendence, unio mystica, etc. depending on context and circumstance.
Those who live in a body-mind-soul balance feel more often the interface of these three realms than those who mainly dwell in the realm of body, i.e., biophysical, sensual, and material world. This interface is usually at the sixth chakra of our astral or subtle body, the third eye, center of intuitive wisdom, artistic imagination, and spiritual contemplation. It is a springboard for a quantum leap into the realm of creativity and creatorship. A poem, a painting, a piece of music, a maxim, a gesture, an action born from the soil of this interface can transport us to turiya. We just assimilate such aesthetic and contemplative encounter in a silent inner resonance soil without allowing our calculating and analyzing mind and satisfaction-seeking senses to intervene. Cultivating this body-mind-soul interface is a real human evolution.
Serge and I have recently experienced such a moment when a redpoll, a small bird migrating to southern Canada in winter, displayed an amazing feat of survival after banging againt our kitchen window and falling, almost dead. She (it was a female redpoll, as we googled out later) moved her head after a couple of minutes and came out of the flat horizontal position to take a half upright position after some 10 long minutes. As we were worrying about her remaining life as a crippled bird, she proudly stood up in a sudden move like a phoenix from the ashes, hopped towards the staircase to our kitchen door and took a trial flight from one step to another. From the fifth step, she took a surprisingly agile flight and landed on the garden-side handrail. Then she made a sudden u-turn and landed on the window frame exactly vis-à-vis our eyes. So three of us, this beautiful tiny creature and these two awestruck witnesses of a small wonder, shared a short long moment eyes to eyes to each other's heart's content. It was a thrilling moment of feeling one with the nature, a fragment of the universe where all beings occupying its space and time are interlinked in a network called life.
In such touching moments, body, mind, and soul, the three dimensions of our being that have separate existence in our normal waking state are seamlessly aligned to form a harmonious whole, and if the union is one-pointed without any dispersion, this point can be easily transcended. This transcendental state is the fourth dimension, turiya, a Sanskrit word simply meaning fourth. While the English word fourth is an ordinal number and nothing more, its Sanskrit counterpart turiya embraces literal, figurative, philosophical, and esoteric aspects such that it should be translated in fourth, trance, beatitude, ecstasy, elation, transcendence, unio mystica, etc. depending on context and circumstance.
Those who live in a body-mind-soul balance feel more often the interface of these three realms than those who mainly dwell in the realm of body, i.e., biophysical, sensual, and material world. This interface is usually at the sixth chakra of our astral or subtle body, the third eye, center of intuitive wisdom, artistic imagination, and spiritual contemplation. It is a springboard for a quantum leap into the realm of creativity and creatorship. A poem, a painting, a piece of music, a maxim, a gesture, an action born from the soil of this interface can transport us to turiya. We just assimilate such aesthetic and contemplative encounter in a silent inner resonance soil without allowing our calculating and analyzing mind and satisfaction-seeking senses to intervene. Cultivating this body-mind-soul interface is a real human evolution.
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