Waters of the Arctic Circle, I want so much to talk to you

Waters of the Arctic Circle,

I want so much to talk to you. Can you kindly hear me out?

Over the past 16 years, I know your deep stillness - in the waters around the Lotus. It was soothing to my spirit. But eight months ago, I began to seek your Being in the waters of a stream flowing into the sea and the waters of the sea, trying to flow into the stream, depending on the tide. I watched mesmerised as the waters merged into each other. I felt You - The Water Being. Then again, as you moved in a torrent in a monsoon drain after a sudden downpour of rain. I keep going back to flowing waters to sense you and understand you.

You of the Waters can be utterly still or flow gently or in a torrent. In recent years, however, you have been increasingly moving and with ferocity. Why?

Has Humankind, in our relentless desire for increased speed and mobility, disturbed you from your states of quiet and stillness? As in ice and glaciers? Guide us, will you, to the truth we need to uncover.

Thayanithi Kulenthran

“Steering Compassion for the Water Being”

* I sent the above as an audio to two friends who were at the Arctic Circle on 5th September.