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This concept is not anything out of the ordinary but I had a lovely experience at my Ananda Mandala group meditation last night and I feel compelled to share.
At some point or another, most of us have been exposed to the idea that “to give is to receive” or as in the King James version of Acts 20:35, “…It is more blessed to give than to receive.” As we journey along on our spiritual paths, the meaning of this seems to become even clearer. Maybe at first we think of it as karma…and then a little further along the path, we come to recognize the value of service because it makes us feel good.
Last night, I had a profound moment of more fully embodying this truth as I experienced a Knowing that to give IS to receive because of our unity and also that it is not some long awaited reward to come to us at some other time when we are being acknowledged for our generosity. Instead, it is instantaneous. (time schime) We receive the moment we give. We just can’t perceive the vast implications of this immediate unfolding. It felt like its ripples impacted the multiverse as well as our past and future lifetimes in ways that we cannot even begin to truly fathom. It was an incredibly beautiful experience; one that defies being explained with mere words which, after all, are just symbols of symbols. Degrees of separation cannot begin to hope to describe that which is inseparable. This is why I have so much poetry. Poems seem to be just a teeny tiny bit closer to the ineffable.
I am so grateful for this experience. I feel as if this is something that I intellectually could have expressed before the meditation but that now it fills me with a joyous knowing.
Have you had any profound meditation experiences? I would love to hear about them.
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