I Remember the Time When I Was All
🌌 “I Remember the Time When I Was All”
(From Unity to Identity and Back)
Inspired by Rishi Vamadeva’s revelation in the Rig Veda
✨ The Original Memory Before All Memories
Long before you had a name, a face, or a form — there was you.
Not the you created by society, nor the you shaped by wounds and wants.
But the You who was everything.
The undivided, all-encompassing, timeless consciousness.
This is not philosophy.
This is remembrance.
Rishi Vamadeva didn’t discover some lofty truth.
He remembered.
He remembered being the wind, the fire, the mountain, the river, the gods, the cosmos.
He said, “I was Manu. I was the Sun. I am the seer and the seen.”
He remembered Unity — the great undivided One from which all identities arise and to which they must return.
This line — “I remember the time when I was all” — is not poetic nostalgia.
It’s the deepest truth you carry.
🔥 What Happened to Us?
We fell into form.
We borrowed names.
We clung to definitions.
We began to say:
“I am this body.”
“I am this gender.”
“I am this pain.”
“I am this religion.”
And identity became a cage disguised as clarity.
But memory...
Divine memory…
Does not forget.
Even in your worst moments, something inside whispers:
“This is not all I am.”
That whisper? That ache?
That’s your unity self trying to reach back through the noise.
🌀 A Divergent Perspective: Identity Is a Temporary Dream
Modern spirituality often says: “Find your identity.”
Rishi Vamadeva would say: “Transcend it.”
You were never meant to stay small.
You were never meant to only be one thing.
The ego’s obsession with finding “who I am” is like mistaking a single wave for the ocean.
You are not a wave.
You are the ocean remembering itself in a wave-form.
So, what if healing isn’t about becoming a better “you”?
What if it’s about becoming All again?
🌺 You Are the Returning
Rishi Vamadeva shows us the spiral path of consciousness:
We begin in Unity (before birth),
We descend into identity (human experience),
We suffer fragmentation (ego, trauma, roles),
And then — if blessed — we return.
Not by erasing the self, but by melting it into all things.
This is not escapism.
It is arrival.
The great coming home.
🧰 PRACTICAL TOOLKIT: Return to the ‘All’ in Daily Life
Here’s a 5-step integration ritual you can begin today, without needing a guru or monastery.
1. 🫧 Morning Mirror Ritual
Every morning, stand before the mirror.
Don’t look at your face — look into your eyes.
Say aloud:
“Before I was this face, I was all. Today, I walk as a wave of the One.”
Repeat this 3 times. Let it land in you.
2. 🍃 Tree-Seeing Meditation (5 mins/day)
Choose a tree.
Sit near it and breathe.
Then feel: “That tree is not separate from me. Its breath is mine. I am that.”
This unity-gazing slowly burns away false divisions.
3. 🕊️ Reverse Introduction Practice
Next time someone asks “Who are you?”,
Mentally say:
“I am the whole pretending to be this part for a little while.”
Then answer simply, with compassion — knowing your answer is just a beautiful disguise.
4. 🎶 Unity Soundtrack
Play any instrumental music (flute, tanpura, or space ambient).
Lie down and imagine your body melting into water, air, fire, space.
Feel your edges blur.
Let the music become you.
Do this for 10 minutes before sleep.
5. 🌌 Weekly “I Remember” Journal
Every Sunday night, complete this sentence in your journal:
“This week, I remembered I was all when…”
Even small moments count — laughter with a child, a breeze on your face, a deep breath.
These are breadcrumbs leading you back.
🪔 Final Words
You are not awakening for the first time.
You are simply remembering.
Identity was the costume.
Unity is the eternal actor.
And now, the actor is ready to step from the stage and into the stars again.
As Rishi Vamadeva once whispered through the Rig Veda,
“I remember the time when I was all…”
And now — so do you.
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