Yagna of Meaning
When I look at the fundamental human quest for meaning, I am often reminded of how humans perform Yagna.
Born into a Brahmin family, I grew up watching my parents perform countless Yagnas. But it took me many years to understand their inner significance.
Inside your self, there is a raging fire that seeks meaning and demands offerings from you. You can offer whatever you want - Your hobbies, Your idiosyncrasies, Your job, your status, the respect you get, the privilege you get, or the deep satisfaction that makes you feel satiated inside the skin of the body you inhabit.
The only condition is this - If what you offer truly belongs to you, you will notice that the existential angst inside you subsides and you start to feel like you were born to be exactly who you are right now.
That moment when you feel it is very precious. You start to experience the joy of breathing in the world. Your posture changes. Your energy levels change. At first, it is a "being" state. It slowly seeps into a few things you do.
It slowly becomes a "doing" state.
And the moment when it is not there in other things that you do, you start to notice the borderline uneasiness inside you. You want to "do" things that make you breathe who you are. And that quest will lead you to find those things that are worth doing.
And when you discover this harmony of "being" and "doing", you start to receive precious gifts from the universe. The universe starts to become very kind to you. Everything you wanted in your life arrives in ways that you least expected.
When Yagna of Meaning helps you discover the grand symphony of being-doing-having, life becomes large. Truly large.