Transcendent Meeting

(an allegorical tale from my personal journal of this weird and wonderful life dated 19^th October 2013)

I was having a morning walk, as I often do, through the local meadows and down by the river. I wasn't heading to anywhere in particular, I was simply enjoying the sights, smells and sounds of the season. I reached a point where there was a confluence of two rivers, and as I walked over the old packhorse bridge something very strange and dreamlike happened. I became aware of this beautiful young woman walking beside me. When I describe her with the word beautiful it seems inadequate as this woman was literally radiant. I mean she glowed! I tried to remind myself who she was, tried to recall when she appeared, and as I did so I became aware of the even more bizarre reality that she was talking to me directly, and that she had always been doing so!

“Oh so now you can hear me?” She asked rhetorically, jovially; her face lighting up with humour and affection, and her bright, almost golden, eyes were large with attraction and fixed on mine.

“I...um...yes...um?” I stammered.

She giggled at my embarrassment and confusion. She was adorable and I was transfixed by her, yet when her giggle subsided her eyes found mine again and there was a sadness in her gaze that I longed to take away forever.

“It's taken you so long, we thought maybe you had forgotten us.” She whispered.

“Forgot....forgotten who?” I blurted clumsily. No sooner than the words had left my mouth than I became aware of a large gathering of people, radiant like herself, beautiful and strange, walking alongside us. I knew then that like the young woman these radiant beings had always been walking beside me my whole life!

My mind reeled and span, losing all grip on any reasonable assertion on which to base it's veneer of self.

My body began to tremble and I felt myself growing, expanding. Cold shots of pleasurable and exciting sensations rushed up and down my spine. I felt myself rise out of the top of my head and leave this body, and leave time, altogether!

My soul began to sing with infinite joy, and as I sang then recognition occurred as I saw and felt That Which Really Is all around, under, above, throughout, in and outside of me!

The host of shining ones seemed to be supporting me on a web of thought as they too rose up and expanded into beings of epic proportions. Each of them had a point of light within the centre of their being that my soul knew to be a star in the cosmos.

I rose up with them. I expanded with them, and although my stature could not compare to theirs I saw that the young woman had transformed into the Earth, and I was now of a size whereby I could observe her before me as a small child would observe a football.

I rested there a while as the fragrances of joy and anguish rose up from Her to fill my sense of smell.

At first there was all Pure Joy, and it smelt wholesome and fresh, and the smell of it made me glad. However, after some time had passed I became aware of another odour which offended me and I knew it to be the odour of Anguish. As the world turned through it's ages the smell of Anguish increased and under it was another offensive scent that fed and was fed by the anguish that I identified as Fear.

I felt aggrieved that the sweet smell of Pure Joy was now growing faint and being replaced with the putrid reek of Anguish, Fear and Selfish Desire. I grasped outwards into the cosmos with the point of Light that is Consciousness within the centre of my being, asking for a solution, a means to restore the uplifting, calming and restorative scent of Pure Joy.

The shining ones smiled on me and handed me the solution. They also charged me with the warning that for this tool to be effective I must use it in every situation, with every person and at every opportunity life presented me with.

They placed the solution in my heart, and from the eye betwixt my eyes it shone forth and began to bathe the Earth in an incense so fine and fragrant that it began to neutralise the reek of fear and the odour of anguish. It blended with the smell of desire to become a heady and potent fragrance that filled me, and began filling the Earth again with Pure Ever New Joy.

The tool they placed in my heart was the power and truth of Ahimsa. The true and everlasting fragrance of Unconditional Love.