Our natural state is a state of cosmic consciousness. By natural we mean to say the state we would be in were we not affected by all of these stresses we have taken on over the course of our life. 

What would this be like for us? To be always in cosmic consciousness?

Cosmic simply means 'all,' hence cosmic consciousness would mean that state within which we are able to be aware of all that we are without having to surrender one state of consciousness for another. We would know ourselves as this individuality, living through this physical form, having these individual thoughts, affected by this individual experience of history, etc.; and we would know ourselves as the unboundedness itself. As Totality. Without cosmic consciousness, we must close our eyes and meditate in order to touch upon an experience of unboundedness; and then we find ourselves by default letting go of that experience of unboundedness as we finish meditating and moving out into the world. So what if we could drop into the unboundedness, contact the true depth of our being, then arise from our meditation and not lose that sense of connectedness?

We would be able to feel ourselves as at one with the movement of the laws of nature and thereby in touch with all that is happening around us all the time, as if we were in a river and able to feel the currents bearing us along.

Then there is the feeling we have when we experience synchronicity, like when we think of a friend and they call, and we realize we were thinking of them just as they were thinking to call us. Things like this would be everyday occurrences.

We would have access to information we know we have not learned, something like situational omniscience--knowing anything we need to know as there is a need to know it, because if it exists somewhere, and we are in touch with everywhere, then we have connection to it. 

We would cease thinking of ourselves solely as this body, knowing ourselves as also this larger thing. There always would be the feeling of a witness self sitting back, observing all that was happening, thinking my oh my this is painful, feeling the pain in some way, yet not feeling at the mercy of the pain. 

We might witness ourselves saying things to others we had no intention of saying. And we might find ourselves saying something like 'And then I found myself hugging her,' rather than, 'and then I hugged her,' recognizing that the impulse for the action, indeed the action itself, came from someplace other than this small body/mind self.

We might find ourselves witnessing our sleep, watching ourselves roll over, hearing ourselves snore or making little sleep sounds with our mouth.

We would find ourselves naturally making choices based upon the movement of the laws of nature, naturally making choices based in the needs of nature evolution, rather than in our individual thoughts, desires and needs.

We would have all this available to us all the time, and we would not have to give up waking state to have it. We would not have to give up being in our life to have it. We would still be the person who looks out at us from our driver's license. The one who loves bad movies or romance novels, who likes to drive too fast, who spends too much money on shoes. We would just know ourselves as that and much more; and not just conceptually, but as a working, feel-able experience of self. We would not have to give up one to have the other.

When we begin to meditate, we sit down with our mantra and close our eyes and perhaps for the first time consistently (and in some cases perhaps for the first time ever) we are able to access the state of pure being. We are able to dive past our small, individual experience of self and into this pool of oneness. Then we have to come out of that experience and back into the confines of our mind and our body. We open our eyes and go back out into the world. We have a day of work, of doing and doing and doing, forgetting perhaps what it even might have felt like to be in that place of being. Forgetting what it might feel like to not have worries or pains or haunting needs. Then sometime late afternoon or early evening, we find the space and the time to sit again, and again we move into that space of unboundedness, diving again into the depths of being, washing ourselves clean of the experiences of the day; and we come back out and go about our evening.

Days and nights and days of this allow us to become more and more familiar with this place of being so that we begin to see signs of it in our eyes open experiences of doing. We begin to understand that there is no division. And as we let go of the stresses we've accumulated over the course of our life, we begin to be able to see the presence of one state while in the other state. We begin to have more and more experiences of connectedness as listed above in our waking state, and we begin to have more experiences of knowing ourselves as individuality while in our deep state of meditation, feeling ourselves as being very, yet aware that we are sitting here in a chair with the dog snoring in the other room and the kids at play in the pool next door.

So yes, in answer to the question that was asked after the 'Thought for the Day' of yesterday, the point is that we always would like to have the doing and the being coexisting. That is the idea of life. It's just that for most of us, to arrive at that experience requires a process of releasing stresses, and then retraining ourselves to be able to be who we are meant to be, doing what we are meant to be doing. Hence the exhortation to do be do be do.