Yoga: Where the Impossible Meets the Possible

Human Collides with the Universe

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“I met a human today.”

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“You met a what?” squawked my friend the hawk, who sat perched beside me.

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“I believe she said a human,” laughed the three-thousand-year-old Baobab tree on which the three of us sat. The third being the Leopard, who lay splayed across the Baobab’s thick branches.

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“What do you mean met? And why do you look like you have gulped too much oxygen?” queried the turquoise Ocean, its waves lapping below us.

“Well, I was flying along Ocean, trying to catch the one fish that meets my daily survival need. When suddenly, our buddy Wind changed its direction and blew me over a cliff and into a human. He was sitting under a tree with his legs crossed and seemed to be engaged in the human act of praying. What a magnificent specimen of human he was, blue-eyed, broad-chested, two arms, two legs, and a smile that made my wings wilt. Their bodies are a splendid creation in the multitude of ways they can experience this earth. But so is their ignorance of how they can experience this Universe for a limited time, in a form that is so unique.”

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“O bother,” smiled Hawk. “You do know that this is never going to work. Humans, don’t even think they are a species, let alone part of nature.”

“You got that right,” muttered Baobab. “I always hear them talking underneath me about this species and that species as if we exist on a different plane. Almost as if they themselves are not a species. But that is not the worst of it. They keep blabbing on about nature, unaware that they are a part of the very definition of nature.

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Eagle, ask your blue-eyed human, the next time you are having an interspecies chat, who exactly do they think they are. If they do not see themselves as connected to us, then what are they?”

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“You plan to meet him again?” stretched Leopard, almost causing him to roll right off Baobab and into Ocean.

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“I have no choice. Universe spoke to me in the silence between my breaths and told me the time has come. To explain Yoga and the Universe to the Human. It is the only way to ensure the survival of all of us. For we have entered Kali Yuga, the age of darkness, vice, and misery. If humans do not connect to their true selves and, by extension, to us, life as we know it will end. Plus, I think I may have a little crush on the human; their form is so interesting.” I mumbled into the wind, knowing that my fellow energetic forms would think I had completely lost my animal brain.

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Which, by the way, is the same animal brain that exists in humans. Set up for their survival, fighting, fleeing, feeding, and reproduction. And yet, for some bizarre reason, they use it to engage in all sorts of indulgences and desires that almost always leads to suffering rather than just for survival purposes.

Did humans understand that what they had done was create a definition of survival that had very little to do with actual survival, but was all about trying to control survival? Believing that they could control death and nature was the root of all their suffering, That they could control anything beyond themselves.

“Eagle, snap out of it. You know we can hear your mind. And honestly, you are not saying what we all want to know,” flowed Ocean. “What did the two of you speak about?”

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“Many things.” I hopped about, “but mostly I tried to explain to him that he and I were the same. We were united in our consciousness and had been born from the same intelligent universe that pervades all of us. I shared with him that all living beings are merely vibrating intelligent energies, each with their own essence and history that started long before they entered their present-day form. What separated us, was our forms. The human form was the most complex of all of nature’s forms. As it arrived with a limbic emotional brain, a thinking brain, and an animal brain.

Which they think makes them smart, but I know it just makes them dumb. It keeps moving them further away from their soul or ‘pure consciousness’, as some of them like to call it.”

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At this, we all burst out into such a tidal wave of laughter, that the mycelium below Earth and all the animals housed in Ocean’s large and fabulous body felt the vibration. And soon all of nature was laughing with us, except the humans because their egos and conditioned mind had buried their connection to the rest of us.

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“What exactly did you tell him?” asked Butterfly, who had brought all its majestic colours and elegance to this confluence of energies.