SEA-WALKING - SEEKING THE DIVINE PEARL..... 
It was in the Diwali break of 2011 that we decided to take a holiday and flew to Bangkok. After a warm welcome at the airport we were chaperoned to another flight to Pataya, which holds the main attraction for tourists- and that is : Water Sports and Water activities. One of the interesting activities that it offered was Sea-Walking. I got really enthusiatic about this one. We were taken to the spot where this activity was conducted on speed boats. The boats were anchored there while we shifted into our water-wear(swimsits n caps etc.) and prepared for our descent into the calm blue-green sun-sparkling waters.
My co-enthusiastists and I were one by one directed slowly into the waters, all masked and wired (with tubes fed by the oxygen tank).
The walk on the floor of the ocean was an amazing experience. The bleached white sand 'neath our feet created a lovely contrast to the torquoise of the water. Our guides were four professional scuba divers and they slowly helped us glide through the water towards a huge rock at the bottom which was the habitat for all types of creatures of the marine. The scuba diver of our group( we were about 7-8 of us) arranged us into a semi-circle and then gently sliced though the water to the rock, to fish out a coral and bring it to the group for inspection. We were shown a huge osyter with its pulsating mouth. He next brought out a star fish and each of us was given the opportunity to handle it. It felt coarse and rough and hard to our touch but when he finally dropped it on the ocean floor it just softened up and inched away from us slowly.
We had the oppurtunity of closely studying the sea-cucumber, a sea urchin with eyes like black olives and a jelly fish with its mutaneous 'legs'! Our guide showed us a perfect coral which was really large in size!
As if all this was not exciting enough, the dive extricated a polybag that was tucked tightly into his wasit-belt and handed us each portions of soaked bread and a glove.We were told to wear the gloveon our right hand and then were asked to hold up the bread . Hundreds of tiny gray- coloured fish instantly appeared and nibbled away at it and in no time they had all been fed and most of the bread had disappeared!
The bouyance of the water equalled the joy in the heart! This experience of sea-walking had ''cleansing'' quality to it. I felt washed -within and without...Plus being able to feed those tiny colourful creatures of the deep was something ''karmic.''
It was then that I heard an inner voice which said something to this effect: ''I am your daddy. Are you happy?'' I felt my Master, my Divine father as I call Him, connecting with me 14 feet below sea-level on the ocean floor!
It made me realise that God( in whatever form He enters our lives) is everywhere and always for us and within us.
These are our special moments of'' Joy'' when we actually feel the ''Presence'' of our Gaurdians around us....
The tiny shimmering bleached white pebbles at the floor of the ocean reminded me of litttle pearls and it seemed to me as if I had descended down there to to pick them out. The brief journey to the bottom of the sea reiterated the fact that in meditation too we delve deep within our own depths and what we achieve thereof is the Divine Pearl.... which is symbolic of His love and which we keep close to our heart and cherish forever.......
Sea Walking in Pattaya....
Best Regards,
Neelam Sethi
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