“There are two ways to live : you can live as if nothing is a miracle ;
you can live as if everything is a miracle” – Albert Einstein
As we tread ahead along our
spiritual path, the thing we hear the most from everyone is that, I will
believe in all this only when I have an experience myself. And that’s perfect
and exactly how it should be....I myself have a certain belief system only
after having my own really dramatic experiences and honestly after being
bombarded persistently left, right and centre by them. As if this is my destiny
and I cannot run away from it. Till then I was a skeptic or a so-called “realist” myself.
Whoever tells anyone to believe in anything blindly, has no idea what it’s all
about!
But what is that big experience that
we keep waiting for?? I mean, is God going to come in our dreams or are we
going to have some out of body experience or some astral travel. I doubt if
that ever happens for majority of us. I
mean….seems like God only talks to Neale Donald Walsch.. :) Right?? :) But hey!! The Universe has finally decided to converse with Shilpa Deshmukh ;) or has Shilpa finally started
paying attention to it now, is the right question?? :)
But what does happen for many of
us is that we keep experiencing signs or meaningful co-incidences or
synchronicities or little messages in the form of intuitions. Some people call
this accessing the storehouse of your subconscious mind, some people call it a little
help from your spirit guides, some call it the intentional manifestation of the
universal energy, choose whatever resonates with you. They help us make decisions in case of
dilemmas or just to remind us of our connection to the Source. And they come to
us in many forms…through books, songs, movies, hoardings, somebody circulating
some message on exactly what you were looking for, a gut feeling, a dream, a
kind act from a stranger on a bad day and many such ways…. Many times there is
something bothering us and we come across a book or an exact chapter on the
same concept and that helps us reach a mental resolution. Many times it comes
as a flow while writing something and you later wonder where the hell did these
words come from? Many times you see a
hoarding right on your face..in big bold black and white..exact words staring
right back at you..that you needed to hear. The examples are innumerable and
its only between you and the Universe…Earlier I would get totally spooked out
but now I feel like smiling when I find them as I finally understand that they
are meant to keep me on the path.…helps me connect with the Universe and it
keeps me grounded.
“Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a
way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the
observer” – Carl Jung.
They could be as simple as a
message reassuring us in a time of doubt. At the risk of appearing naïve..let
me share a very simple co-incidence that
I experienced when I was choosing the name for my son. I remember, I had
already decided during my pregnancy that my child’s name had to be from “S” and
if it was a boy, then the name would be Samar. If you look up on the net, the
literal meaning of the name is War.. which can have a bit of negative
connotations.. but the more I went inside myself.. only one meaning kept coming
to me, which was… A Warrior.. A Warrior
of Peace and Light. That’s what my inner voice kept telling me. A few days
later we went to Crosswords and I glanced upon this Paulo Coelho’s book called
the “Manual of The Warrior of Light”
which I had never seen before, so I immediately picked it up for casual browsing and for some
reason on every single left hand side page there is a “S” written up and down on
the pages with a quote on Warrior of Light in the middle. What that “S” is doing
in that book on every single left page and what it means to Paulo… only he knows.
I found it amusing and funnily felt very reassured but kept the book back on the shelf. And so when the baby came
out we named him Samar and we told to whoever asked that it means…. A warrior of peace and light. ..because that’s
what my inner voice had told me. And now I see my 4 year old son and how
delightful he is and only now I read many spiritual concepts on the new age
children and how they are meant to have warrior spirits and are meant to be Warriors of light and peace and love…. I
got totally spooked out! How exact can it get?? Where did that phrase come from
to me during my pregnancy? But now I see the whole connection between this
amazing soul and why he would have chosen me to be his mommy…and it is truly
fascinating and extremely profound. Someday it all falls in place for us and makes
us smile…that’s all…no pressures…just smile….it’s enough to get you by the day….
Before you start judging me and my expectations of him, :) let me add a disclaimer over here that Warrior of Light is just a way of being and in no manner suggests the path or any field that he may choose....that part is entirely up to him and his eternal journey.... :)
Before you start judging me and my expectations of him, :) let me add a disclaimer over here that Warrior of Light is just a way of being and in no manner suggests the path or any field that he may choose....that part is entirely up to him and his eternal journey.... :)
“I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let
expectations hinder my path”
– Dalai Lama
But most of us choose to ignore these simple
things around us because at that time they don’t seem very dramatic enough or
we feel a bit stupid about it. People
from the creative world still pay atleast a little attention to these signs. But
if you come from an orbit where most of your peers and friend circle are from
management studies or a corporate background then you have chosen a tough
audience for yourself!! :)
I mean its really far easy to get a hundred likes for a piece of cake but to
have chosen a task to present such thought provoking articles to especially
such an audience is not easy by any means. :)
We lot are a bit of a lone warriors ourselves and we would rather fight it out
alone than receive some divine help!! ;) So burnt out in these heavy karmic
places that we seem to have lost all our connection to innocence and any sort
of higher Source. No wonder then that only rude wake up calls work for most of
us!! Atleast that’s what made me notice and look back on all the “small”
things….
After I started writing and
sharing my thoughts on this blog, the amount of such experiences that people
have been sharing is not funny. It’s almost as if we all are closeted
spiritualists and are somehow keeping it inside us. Most of us are looking for our
own connection to the Universe or a connection to something higher than
ourselves. It’s a nagging feeling which most of us have about where do we
actually fit in the greater scheme of things? Is there any meaning to this
whole drill or just a random occurrence of chance events? But it seems like we
would have to discover that on our own and establish that connection on our own
as it is our personal journey which began really eons ago and probably now we
are at a stage where we feel the need to figure it all out. Despite having
everything to be grateful about we feel totally lost at times. And that’s where these little signs help us
with little pointers on the journey, provided we pay attention to them and have
faith in them.
What I have realised is that they
are not for just a chosen few but are for everyone and are there to help us and
guide on this wonderful journey. Start paying attention to the world around you
and you will notice them everywhere..you will start seeing the magic in things…
journal them….they may not make sense to you at all right now.. ..but they are
your little jigsaw pieces which one day will form the bigger picture…..and one
day it will all make perfect sense to you……. :)
And will be the “big” experience that you were waiting for…..and your own
connection to the Universe…. :)
So last Friday, I came across
this same book by Paulo Coelho after 4 years at an obscure roadside bookshop
and it brought the whole episode back to me and I finally picked it up. … There
are several quotes in there which are good….. maybe I will read them out to Samar
soon…he loves all my books already… :) and thinks that all these writers are my teachers... ;)
