The recent spate of violence rocking through the peaceful suburbs of Mumbai and ever smoldering Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza strip, Sri Lanka had left a few questions lurking in my mind both at micro and macro level. Complex questions..... are answers simple?
Why would people have to go through languishing and tormenting bloody wars loosing families and other kith and kin?
Why some people are specially chosen for this kind of suffering?
Are people specially selected to be born in such nations which are constantly torn by strife, poverty and other natural calamities?
Why is it that some countries are peaceful while the rest of them have their swords always hanging out of the dagger?
Why should this peaceful earth turn into a mortuary?
Sometimes we will have to seek answers within or extrapolate few readings to bring closure. I parked these questions in the back of my mind and continued reading this book that I have been trying to finish for a long time. Why me? Why now? Why this? written by Robin Norwood.
Here is the excerpt from one of the chapters that answered my questions to some extent at the micro level.
“Not every individual outgrows their childhood, nor does every individual mature into someone capable of expressing humanity’s highest attainments. The capacity of the individual depends on several factors: the individual’s own stage of conscious evolvement, attained through the sum of the completed lifetimes; the strengths and limitations of the present physical, astral/emotional, and mental bodies; and determining factors of the chosen present-life environment, including the individual’s family, the overall social group, and the general culture at large. Obviously each of these factors may serve to either encourage or inhibit the fullest expression of what the individual has achieved on behalf of the soul.”
The author had subscribed to the Karma theory in Hinduism, the underlying platform to answer to all the above questions. We are all born to expunge our karmas from the previous births. Every soul that journeys to this earth has it purpose and level of consciousness. With every journey the level of consciousness goes up and the lessons get tougher and tougher. While books can impart wisdom to the mind, but the wisdom to the soul comes from the experience from several hundred reincarnations. These learning’s are organic and never be borrowed or amassed from reading scriptures. Every soul has the same final destiny but the in between destinies vary. I extrapolated the same to the Universe. The universe is also a part of us and it goes through similar experiences to get the final destination.
My next question was does the Universe conspire such events so that every individual gets to the highest attainments at the end of their journeys? Subscribing to Paulo Coelho theory from his book “The Alchemist”, “Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive…. And it has a soul. We are a part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.”
“Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.”
“The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, jealousy. To realize one’s destiny is a person’s real obligation. And , when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
It was all clear and convincing now and my parking lot suddenly got empty. It is self perpetuating cycle that goes on till every soul and the universe expunges its karma. Let us all wish and dream for peaceful and loving universe.
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