Solstice celebrations.
Terms like gratitude and celebration are pretty common in daily, modern life, and these are useful ideas to consider or express, they make us re-evaluate our ideas, beliefs, measurement of life and the scale of values we apply to it
As today is the summer solstice, it’s certainly a time when there is both gratitude and celebration for the presence of the sun.
The solstice has been venerated for millennia across the globe, in innumerable cultures and that’s most appropriate, the sun which obviously sits central in our solar system, and exists and can be seen and understood as an integral generative force in life.
At this time, when it’s at its most present during each day, at its highest point, we can see it’s influence the most, how the sun’s presence resonates through everything, encouraging everything into its fullest manifestation.
This sense of gratitude then extends to absolutely everything, if we really become conscious of thia moment, life’s vibrant nature, it’s brilliance, the virtual paradox of why should life even exist, this leads to an appreciation for everything, everything becomes precious due to its existence., Every experience, every sensation, even the act of experiencing, becomes exquisite, blissful.
So this celebration of the summer solstice, the Yogic recognition of the value of the sun becomes a festival of all of life. As everything is seen and understood as being this extraordinary quality, life arising from its source, into countless diverse forms.visible and invisible, knowable and unknowable.
Om Surya namaha.
Happy summer solstice!
