Pearl
When
we listen to the voices of war, we plant seeds of war in our own
hearts. When we listen to the voice of silence, we plant the seed of
peace. Now gaze at the shimmering pearl in the tidal pool of this breath and become pure light.
Hiranyagarbha: the Golden Egg
"On mighty waters floated the universal egg of the Golden Womb, Hiranyagarbha, which gave birth to the flame of life, the One Spirit of all the Gods." ~Rig Veda (X.121) And now I tell you this: the golden egg is the center of your soul. As the Vedic scriptures speak of Hiranyagarbha, the Golden Egg, so many of the world's creation myths contain the image of a primal egg floating on the waters of absolute Being, floating on the waters of consciousness prior to the creation of matter. Yet this Golden Egg is floating inside you now. The image is even embedded in the Bible's creation story. In Genesis 1, "the Spirit-Breath of God was stirring the deep." The word for "stirring" is a Hebrew root, "rakaf," describing the ruffling movement of a mother bird sitting on its egg in the nest: a very feminine image of the Biblical Creator. The Golden Egg is a very real experience in deep meditation. Hiranyagarbha is made of pure ineffable Lig...
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