Lions and Tigers have always been associated with ancient goddesses. You have, for example, goddess Sekhmet in Egypt, the lion goddess, who herself comes from a long ancestry of lion goddesses. And you have Goddess Durga in India, again coming from an ancestry of goddesses who were associated with tigers and lions. In fact, in some of the earliest goddesses in that are found in India, you see images of the goddess standing between two tigers, holding them on either side of her by the scruff of their neck.

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One of the dominant demands of our mind is that we must have a plan. There's always this question, “So what's the plan?” And without a plan, the mind is very uneasy and uncomfortable. It may even start cooking up its own plans and templates or apply whatever plans and templates that it knows.

 

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What is it that we “seek” or yearn for? What is it that we express as Divine, enlightenment, union, and wholeness? What is this knowledge that we chase as the answer to our feeling of incompleteness within?

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Isn't it true that we all crave for authenticity in our search for why are we here? What is the purpose of each one of our lives? For a lots of us the yearning to express our being in an authentic way or to yearning to express that authenticity of our being is central to finding that connection to meaning and purpose. Those of us who can excavate this authenticity and to be able to actually manifest it, because of course, authenticity only becomes real, when it is actually expressed and manifested, then we can feel that moment where it feels like something has landed.

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Whenever I use the word primordial, I inevitably get the question what do I mean by that word? And it's a fair question. Because primordial often appears as a very abstract and conceptual word that is quite remote from our everyday reality and existence.

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Primordiality can be a very abstract and conceptual word, that it can seem like something that's quite remote from our everyday lives and our consciousness. And yet, the archetypal tradition exists in the realm of the primordial and archetypes are expressions of the primordial.

 

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The Deity Krishna once said that the Divine is a poet. And He also said that when we want to perceive the Divine, we can't do that with our usual vision, that we need a transformed vision or transformed sensibility, in order to experience the Divine who is the poet. This poetic  aspect of consciousness or reality or nature is central to many ancient wisdom traditions across the world. The poet is the seer, the poet/seer/healer/dancer, you find these constellations in traditions across the world. And of course, many of the ritual traditions are in essence, they are poetic, and they are creative expressions, poetic dance or poetic chanting or poetic art, visual art, that is ritual and ceremonial and poetry.

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It's very important for all of us to find a meaning and purpose in our lives. We all hold a yearning, to be able to be purposeful, usually towards something that is a meaningful cause to support something that can bring me that can bring happiness or being a level of productivity. It's very important for all of us to find meaning and purpose in life. And usually, we do this by finding causes, or supporting the things or movements that are meaningful that we resonate with that can be in service to other people. And of course, this is a very valuable thing. And it's an important way in which we participate in the community, and in the group and be a part of the movement of humanity itself towards something that brings us beauty and happiness in these lives.

 

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Generally, we think of life as a linear movement, we start somewhere, and we gather and collect and accumulate skills, money, experience, happiness, and we land up somewhere, which is more than where we started. If we don't have more than where we started, we consider that as, as a failure. And we want to rectify it. We want to figure out what happened, why didn't we? Why aren't we when we say better? Why aren't we better than where we started and better is always almost always about something that is more Are we more happy? Do we have more money? Do we have more skills, do we have more experience? And yet when we consider the archetypal movement of life, the suggestion is that life is an ebb and flow.

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As a teacher of a practice that is spiritual, I contend with what I call a recreational attitude to philosophical or spiritual inquiry. It is something that must accommodate itself around all the other activities of life. Work, family, holidays, birthdays, shopping, visitors- all other “obligations” must be met before a spiritual activity. Or, which in my view is far worse, spirituality is a “rest” from the other obligations of life. It is a respite so that one can return to the more important business of living refreshed and reinvigorated.

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