Meditation provides a subtle intuitive understanding of the nature of the object of one’s focus, which gets clearer and deeper with practice.
Edwyn F. Bryant uses the analogy of a clay pot in his “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”:
By meditating on a clay pot we come to realize the perpetually evolving nature of our universe and everything in it (other than consciousness!) “A new pot gradually starts to become old in successive stages from the moment it comes into existence. Changes of condition, which occur every instant at the atomic level, are not perceptible moment by moment, but they are after the lapse of time – one becomes gradually aware that something is becoming old and no longer new.”
In the latter stages of meditation, we become intuitively aware of the essential, interconnected fabric or fundamental construct of the universe: its energetic, oppositional molecular states of matter, which manifest into the objects of the known world around us – which due to their energetic makeup are perpetually evolving – that’s Karma Baby!
May you experience that level of realization and union in your practice! Allan
