Perspective
The Experience of Being Naked
by Meena Iyer
In my childhood days I
watched opposite to my apartment little urchins jumping naked in joy in
the little pool of water stagnant in the areas of land dug for building
constructions. The sight of joyous little naked innocent urchins who had
nothing to lose and had no identity to be scared of and their enjoyment
caught my attention and wanted to feel that experience.
As years passed and I moved to US for further studies and the first
encounter of being in a clothing optional beach transformed my awareness
completely. We were students then and we just casually planned to visit
one of the California beach. We were unaware of this trend of clothing
optional beach and even felt leaving immediately. The beaches in
California had a textile beach on the south side where it is mandatory
to be in a swim suit but in the northern side it is clothing optional or
completely naked. We were from a conservative background and in our
conservative swim suits and did not even dare to wear a two piece
bikini.
We strolled from one end of the south beach and walked to the north end
taking courage holding our hands giggling and feeling our nerves. The
sight of naked couples and singles guys and gals strolling with the bare
body uninhibited left a blush in our face. The sight was cool with all
shapes and sizes of human bare body. I was questioning myself as to how
to experience the bliss of being naked without catching anyone’s
attention. The lack of privacy, gawkers and hidden cameras were
definitely a show stopper for me in experiencing being naked with the
nature. We left the beach satisfied with new experience of watching
naked folks enjoying the subtler aspects of life.
I was longing to experience nakedness with nature in a more solitude and
secluded place where privacy is respected. I sought looking for private
naturist place where privacy is respected with photography banned. I
took courage and requested my class mate to join me in the quest of
experiencing and feeling the divinity within us. My class mate was
reluctant and once I convinced her that it is clothing optional place
she agreed to give me the company.
We visited one of the hot spring resorts and we did not have enough
money to stay in the rooms but there was a provision of bringing your
own tents and we just would pay for using the facilities. The place was
all silent, meditative with the people polite and greeting us with
‘Namaste’ and I wondered where could have this namaste be coming from
these American folks. I later found out that there were lots of Yoga
institution and they teach yoga and the culture of greeting could have
been passed from the yoga teacher.
The hot springs required us to be completely nude in the pools and my
friend initially stayed back as a spectator. I was also nervous as I
headed to the dressing room to undress and the dressing room happened to
be a co-ed changing room. I immediately stepped in to the rest room
sighed, relaxed with a deep breath and slowly undressed and left my
belongings in the lockers and headed out to the common shower with my
eyes still not wide open and felt the shower over my body and watching
all the naked folks around felt electricity running in my spines.
There were three kind of hot spring pools; warm, ice-cold and hot pool.
My friend was giggling at me as I walked passed the shower naked in to
the warm pool and just the feeling of the warm water over my body
relieved all the tensions in my mind and body. I hopped from the warm
hot spring water to the ice-cold spring water and I could stay in the
ice-cold only for 2 minutes and immediately hopped in to the hot spring
water and continued my meditative session hopping from one pool to
another. The whole place was quite and even the whisper was silent.
There was no sign of any sexual overtness among the seekers. It was very
important to detach yourself from any Identity (Self), Emotions, and
Intelligence and be with the experience of feeling the ‘Prana’ or subtle
energy around you. The whole experience was rejunavating and I felt a
sudden flow of electric current in my body and felt transformed.
My friend later took the courage and she experienced the same
transformation and it was our experience of life time and cherished this
moment of life. I remembered my grandmother preaching 'Taking dip in the
Ganges spring water cures one of all sins'.
Hee Haw the experince of life has become wonderful.
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