Sab Mein Narayan

Written by my co-pilgrim Swara

Today morning as we left from Saatdev village a dog came running to us. I guess he figured out who the dog lover was and kept jumping on Trupti. He would keep playing and pulling her dress. In between he would go and play with the buffalo till it would get annoyed. Interestingly he kept walking with us for a kilometre. 

With this playful morning the chant that came in my mind was: Hari Narayan... Hari Narayan..This prayer was introduced to me by a dear friend where he would replace the word Hari with a friends name .. like Trupti Narayan, Sheetal Narayan. It just points us towards seeing the divine in everything. 

In the tone of the playfulness of the morning both Trupti and I started singing by taking the names of near and dear ones. And gradually it kept expanding friends, family, teachers, neighbours, the dog and the trees and the birds.

And what happened next was amazing. There was a subtle encouragement we gave each other to say the names of people with whom we might have created some boundaries and we saw the dance of sensation inside us. Just observing it for sure was shifting something in us. And we continued sending love and prayers to everyone. What started as a playful chant ended in stillness and sharing metta.