Daily Meditation: Friday, December 26, 2008

During the nine months spent in its mother’s womb, a child …

12/26/2008

During the nine months spent in its mother’s womb, a child is attached to its mother by the umbilical cord, and it therefore leads a life of dependency; it is the mother who breathes and eats for it. In the same way, until we have been born on the spiritual plane – what the Christian tradition calls the second birth – other beings eat and drink in our place and think in our place. Humans leave their mother’s womb, but they still live in another mother’s womb: nature’s. One day they will have to cut this umbilical cord, too, in order to become independent. In fact, even then they won’t have completely gained their independence; there will be other cords to cut until the day they become as free as God. But that day is still far off, and, in the meantime, they must remain linked to their mother nature. Even if they reach higher regions, these are still nature, and they will still have cords to cut.