Where The Ganges Murmur On A Sunny Day

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Donde murmura el Ganges en un día soleado
--por Om Swami

¿Alguna vez has abierto la puerta principal y entrado en casa después de unas vacaciones de dos o cuatro semanas? Te recibe el olor de un hogar cerrado, un dulce aroma a polvo. Te dejas caer en el sofá y dejas escapar un profundo suspiro. Dices: "Hogar, dulce hogar".

Por muy bonitas que sean las vacaciones, después de un tiempo empiezas a echar de menos tu hogar. Quieres volver a un entorno familiar. Puede que tu casa no sea la más lujosa, puede que no tengas el lujo de un servicio de habitaciones ni de que te hagan la limpieza, y sin embargo, te sientes más cómod@ en tu propio hogar. Hay una tranquilidad natural, una sensación de pertenencia, una libertad diferente. Supera los lujos de los hoteles de cinco estrellas.

Lo mismo ocurre con nuestra alma. Nuestro cuerpo no es su hogar permanente. Nuestra conciencia individual intenta eternamente fundirse con la conciencia suprema. Quiere volver a casa. Es posible que la conciencia no sea un orador suficientemente elocuente para decírtelo con tanta claridad, pero eso es lo que quiere hacer. Porque somos seres de inmensa libertad y potencial infinito, y aquí estamos atrapados en las mezquinas tendencias y deseos de nuestra mente y cuerpo.


El alma quiere volver a su origen. Esta es la ley fundamental de la naturaleza, de la creación y la destrucción: todo debe volver a su origen. Nuestro cuerpo puede ser temporal, nuestra mente condicionada, nuestra conciencia un viajero cauteloso, pero nuestra alma sabe dónde pertenece.


Por eso, en algún momento de su vida, cada persona se ve obligada a reflexionar sobre el significado de su existencia. Todo aquel que ha experimentado, aunque sea un instante de plenitud, emprende un viaje más grande que su existencia individual. Ese viaje podría ser el camino de Einstein o la pasión de Cristo; podría ser el camino de Buda o el moksha de los Vedas.


Puede que hayamos olvidado nuestra verdadera naturaleza, pero nuestra alma, eterna e inmaculada, quiere volver a casa. Hasta que no le muestres el camino, la inquietud de la vida no desaparecerá. Ningún placer ni relación puede ofrecerte plenitud permanente porque todos estamos de vacaciones y extrañamos nuestro hogar. Meditar es volver a casa. Es regresar a tu origen, a donde perteneces, para que ya no seas lo que la gente [dice] que eres, o lo que el mundo te ha hecho creer [..], o incluso lo que piensas de ti mism@. En cambio, es descubrirte, llegar a tu fuente primordial de donde la dicha, la felicidad y la alegría fluyen constantemente. Es descubrir tu hogar original, sin los muebles de los celos, la codicia, la envidia y el odio. Un hogar sin las paredes del ego y la ira. Un lugar donde tu alma descansa en paz, donde la conciencia fluye sin obstáculos como el suave murmullo del Ganges en un día soleado.





Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Qué opinas de la idea de que nuestra alma es como un/a viajer@ cansad@ que anhela regresar a su verdadero hogar? ¿Podrías compartir una historia personal que refleje un momento de tu vida en el que sentiste un intenso anhelo de regresar a un lugar o estado que te hiciera sentir como tu auténtico hogar? ¿Qué te ayuda a cultivar una práctica de meditación o reflexión consciente que te permita conectar con tu ser interior y redescubrir la sensación de "hogar" en tu alma?



Om Swami es un místico del Himalaya. Extracto de su libro "Un Millón de Pensamientos".
Seed Questions for Reflection

What do you make of the notion that our soul is akin to a weary traveler longing to return to its true home? Can you share a personal story that reflects a moment in your life when you felt an intense longing to return to a place or state that felt authentically 'home' to you? What helps you cultivate a practice of meditation or mindful reflection that allows you to connect with your inner self and rediscover the sense of 'home' within your soul?

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12 Past Reflections
A
Dec 15, 2025
I suffered from anxiety at night during the pandemic until 2 seniors told me that I needed to meditate. When I finally did, I got a restful night's sleep. I then practiced moving meditation Healing Qi Gong and later I Liq Chuan Tai Chi. I have never heard the saying that Meditation is Going Home, but alas it truly IS!
CT
Dec 12, 2025
"Our body may be temporary, our minds conditioned, our consciousness a wary traveler, but our soul knows where it belongs."

Did the author mean "wary" or "weary?" Big difference.
Anyone know?
MB
Mitchell Bakota Dec 14, 2025
Typo makes more sense. I read it as "weary."
CT
Catherine Tod Dec 14, 2025
Thanks, Mitchell. I read it as "weary" also.
WO
Dec 9, 2025
This is very true. My mind couldn't find a place to rest till I tried Vipassana meditation. The wild mind got tamed and every aspect of my life improved and continues to improve.
AP
Dec 9, 2025
Merge with the creator to become one ourselves.
Thereby know the source and purpose of creation.
B
Dec 9, 2025
I am reading The Heartfulness Way by Kamlesh Patel and he talks of mediation is when we go inward to connect with God/Source. Our souls are longing for that connection. Home with God is within. As we practice meditation as a beginner, it is not always the same. Sometimes, we get so connected to God and long for that experience each time but in longing for something we are cutting ourselves off of learning something new because we are expecting the same results. Being open to each and every experience even when mediating, I feel is essential. Hope that makes sense.
JT
Dec 8, 2025
Ah rest, rest as surrender, a calmness without effort or force, caught in the moment, held floating, this nowness.
DD
Dec 5, 2025
Our soul is home. The problem is we don't know that. We think that home is somewhere other than where we are, is some other place and time, and we have some degree of desire to someday get to it. We don't see that our soul is God, God is all that is, and our soul is home. At some point I had some awareness that home is here and always has been. It's like T.S. Eliot saying, "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." There is no separation except in my mind between where I am and where home is. I became aware that I don't need to search for some other place -- I need to go to a different awareness. Awareness that home is here is like a fog lifting and it helps me cultivate further reflection in order to further clarify and deepen awareness that home is here.
SD
Dec 4, 2025
Home is ...'where the heart... is'
Where... 'real life'... occurs
Where we are most content...
JP
Dec 4, 2025
Coming home is is the aspiration and longing for all of us. Life is a journey, a yatra, for all of us. When we find and arrive at our 'home' we feel fulfilled and at peace with ourselves and others traveling on the road less traveled. We all want to go 'home' and be at peace with ourselves and with others. I want to reach 'home '- a place where my soul rests in peace, 'where my consciousness flows unimpeded like the Ganges murmuring on a sunny day.' This is my abode with no walls beween me and you. It is a true union. When do I arrive "Home"? When I break out of the self-created prison I have created, I arrive home. I feel authentically 'home.' Home is within me. I need to open my eyes to see my Home. I do not need to go to holy places to find it. It is right now and here. I felt that unlimited freedom, joy and bliss when I was traveling to Amarnath, a snowclad mountain on the Himalayas. It was a meditative experience with no boundaries. I felt at 'home.' I felt deeply connecte... View full comment
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George Ochsenfeld Dec 5, 2025
Lovely response, JP! Poetic, mystical, and wise. I especially liked these words of yours:

I want to reach 'home '- a place where my soul rests in peace, 'where my consciousness flows unimpeded like the Ganges murmuring on a sunny day.' This is my abode with no walls beween me and you. It is a true union. When do I arrive "Home"? When I break out of the self-created prison I have created, I arrive home. I feel authentically 'home.' Home is within me. I need to open my eyes to see my Home.