Dancing with the Wolves and Daffodils I read Wordsworth’s poem Daffodils in school and college, but the profound spiritual content flashed by only in later years.The import where he merges into the super consciousness was lost on me earlier.The opening lines sums up in a nutshell the essence of detachment. “I wandered lonely “– signifies a nomadic detachment to material possessions, indicating a sense of the ascetic, as he wanders alone not attached to kith or kin. Cloud is a metaphor for compassion giving away everything to others,cloud gives rain and rain gives prosperity. The cloud is no more, only water, as desire evaporates in giving or contributing to sustenance of others.“Floats on high o’er” – here vales and hills denote the fortunes and misfortunes of life. But he rises (floats) well above them unperturbed by the vicissitudes of nature. “I gazed” – is the self reflection the path of knowledge and pensive signifies thoughts of reality.“Inward eye “- focused meditation leads to reality or the opening of the wisdom eye (third eye) in Vedanta. “Dances with the daffodils”- the feeling of ecstasy, awareness, sudden gush of all embracing love. Intoxicated with pure love of nature he becomes one with the universe no longer apart. In self realization the individual merges with the totality. - Vinay-
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