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used to float at the bottom of his subconscious began to evaporate. What had been obscured for a long time became in this way visible. Like a laser beam, he penetrated to his reality. It was a great leap, a severing of the cords of attachment to matter and mind.
What I used to think of as me is only a shell; it is destructible. The real bird is inside! I am not things! I am no-thingness! I am life! The real T will remain. Where can it go?
As inner exultancy replaced past fears and concepts, he experienced a new sense of love and reverence for the entire kingdom of living beings. All the creatures around were seen through an eye of newness.
All these multicolored forms, all these uniquely designed shapes — tiger, cheetah, snake, insect-bodies are all housing the same as me. They are holding life. They are nothing but vibrant energies growing and evolving in their own course. They have no intention to harm me. Why should I have assumed they are dangerous? There are so many millions of wild animals in the world; if they were vicious by nature, would they not have already devoured the whole human population? It's only a concept of fear, and life is not that.
From the vegetables to the highest forms of consciousness, he saw how each had its own place, its own timing, its own evolution. In this way, his heart opened. He became deeply sensitive to life. He felt his heart vibrating on the same frequency with all. Like the wings of a butterfly, it pulsated and soared in the infinite sky. From that day, he appreciated what it meant to have been a lifelong vegetarian and what it meant to protect all of life as one's own.
It is no longer me against them. It is all one! We are united by life. Oh, what a beautiful world it can be -- if life gives to life out of feeling for life and if everyone stops limiting each other to a concept or a label or a form.
Munishree had reached a new plateau of awareness. Soon after his cave retreat, one morning just before dawn, something started churning from deep within him. Some unnameable alchemy was taking place. It felt like the blending of all
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