Two women transcending time and space.

B.K Mina

This is Mina, she is one of the happiest and brightest and cheeriest young women you could ever wish to meet.  I would like to introduce her to everyone I know.  Her happiness is not a happiness dependent on anything other than her own understanding and belief. Her belief that her whole being and person was/is designed to be peaceful, happy and content and to help others feel the same.  The photograph doesn't really convey how beautiful she really is.  You find yourself just wanting to watch her and the reason seems to be the beauty which although it is beauty of face and feature, is also a beauty which is also a beauty beyond it.  She would say that her real self is within, it isn't the white sari-clad 5 foot, 5 inch (I'm guessing) person made of flesh and blood. 

 She would say, and indeed she does say that her self is a point of light within which has a direct connection with God.  Having met her, I find myself convinced that what she is saying is true for her and is quite possibly true for us too.  You could meet her if you went along to the Oxford Inner Space Centre on Broad Street which she looks after.   She came to talk to a group of us who had been considering meditation in a new light.  We had started looking at meditation not just as a discipline but as an act of tenderness between the meditator and God, an act of gratitude for all we are given, an act of surrender of our own belief that we are the ones who do, who give and who have.  If you think about it, the idea that we own anything, give anything or are anything is a joke which we haven't really decided to join in with.  When you meet someone who has realised that it is a joke, a kindly joke and they give up the idea of their individual person to something larger, they shine with the confidence of it being just like that.  

The icon of Mary and Jesus tells the same story about the act of tenderness and love which is the real bond between two apparent human beings.  These two women, one of 2016 years ago and on of 2016 show something which is both real and true then, now and forever.