A Morning Encounter- Day 1

 Unification of consciousness:

When I woke up this morning around 4:30 and stepped into the bathroom, my attention was caught by a tiny spider just about a foot away from my feet. Normally I would have picked it on a paper and gently placed it outdoors. Today it was raining. It wouldn’t survive if I dropped it in the wet. I just decided to turn a blind eye to it until it wandered out of my sight.

What was at play under my nose was an unspoken language of compassion between one species to another. Without any conscious effort. 

This compassion which is natural to consciousness, where does it vanish in the outside world?

Later as I got into my car and reflected on the deeper subjects of Vidya and Avidya, I found the answer to that question. Both Vidya and Avidya block consciousness without knowing that they are the real bad guys.

In the witnessed encounter with the spider I probably saw Ahimsa in its most untainted and practical form today. Not sure I could explain it in words. What I had gathered was that Ahimsa is an essential and inseparable part of consciousness. If compassion is an abstract noun, ahimsa is it’s corresponding verb. That is the best I can express in words.