This article is for spiritual people. Or for those of you who believe that a God exists. Or some super natural force that has control over the world.
What is the purpose of our life? Why are we here on this earth? When and will we ever know the purpose of our life?
I’ve always had this primeval long standing theory that we come to earth as part of a journey. Earth is our learning stop. Just like we drive cars and stop for fuel to go on. Earth is like that for us. We are all souls who choose that we want to come into the world and choose our family and friends. And then we come to earth with a purpose. And once we are finished with that, we go back to the heavens. Or wherever we came from.
Before we come to the earth, we are given a purpose in life. God tells us why we need to go to earth. So in a way, yes we do know why we are here. But the predicament is, we cant remember why!
I know that may sound a bit bizarre. But lets contemplate over it a bit more. Now god tells us why he needs us to go to earth. And its up to us to complete our mission.
Now why is it that we cant remember what our purpose is? The reason is, if we did remember why we came onto earth we would finish our purpose really hastily and wish to go back to heaven.
Heaven! This is the only word in the world that may possibly have no accurate definition. Heaven to me is this striking place where everything is right and we can live the way we want and do the things we want not having to fret about anything. We can be assured of the almighty’s unconditional love for us. He is always there to talk to us and make everything just perfect. Heaven according to me is the most perfect place and we all come to earth from there. We all look at earth as a school like I mentioned earlier. So when we are in heaven and everything is just perfect, no body wants to come to earth. But we have to if we want to learn. And this is where we choose our families and everything else. Now before coming to earth, we are aware of our purpose. But once we are on earth, that memory gets expunged along with all other memories of heaven and of talking to and being with God. Now its up to us to draw nearer to him and recognize him as the most highest. If we knew of our purpose in life, we would want to finish it quickly and go back to heaven. We would wake up every morning knowing what we have to do and attempt to finish it in the fastest possible way. This would only result in the cutting short of our learning experience. What good would school be if we got promoted from the 1st standard to the 12th standard? We would miss out on all those important things that we have to learn along the way. We would miss out on all the experiences that life has to offer us.
Nobody, after seeing heaven wants to be on earth. But if one has to grow smarter and be the experienced people that we should be, then we should take life slowly and steadily, taking advantage of every opportunity that comes our way and tapping it to the maximum of its available potential.
Life is beautiful and instead of wasting it on figuring out why we are here, lets make the best of it and try to discover as much as possible and read books and watch movies and make friends and spread peace and do everything possible to enhance the exquisiteness of our inner selves. Lets move like the tortoise who won in the end through life’s expedition without hurrying through anything knowing that once our lifes purpose is accomplished, we can be rest assured that we will be going back to the heavens! Or wherever we came from.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Do soul mates really exist?
This has got to be something we have all spend at least some time of our lives thinking about. But do we have the answer? Do soul mates really exist? If they do, will we ever find them? Will we be happy with them? Is happiness confined to one person? Can one person have just one soul mate?
These are questions that really have no answer or have a lot of more unanswered sub questions. One cannot help but ponder over them. It is indeed fascinating as to how something so specific can turn into something so vague? Is the need to find your soul mate an excuse to keep the hope for a perfect relationship alive? To keep going and to keep growing strong? Is it just a figment of our imagination? Does the mind’s eye look beyond the perfect relationship? Can we accept the imperfections in our soul mate and yet call him a soul mate? Would he even be a soul mate then?
Firstly, what are soul mates? A soul mate is a different soul yet similar in ways more than one. A soul mate is one who integrates with your soul so as to share your thoughts feelings and understanding and coping with your way of life and yet being able to find happiness in what you do. Your soul mate is the one who makes you feel easy and comfortable and strong. Another soul on the same wave length as you are. So knowing what soul mates are, the question now is, can we find them if they exist?
Well what I’ve always felt is that soul mates do exist. But I don’t know if we always find them, We being some of us. A reading I had done once ages ago told me that we chose everything in life. God puts the options in front of us. And it’s our will and it’s our free will. We chose what we want. Right or wrong, the choice is ours. If we desire right, one cannot imagine the extensive gain but a wrong choice compels us to face the dire consequences. Consequence is a negative word for me. How can there be good consequences? They wouldn’t be called consequences then! We chose our happiness. Happiness lies in so many things that once again we opt for like family, friends, lifestyle, career etc etc.
Yes surprising as that may sound, we chose our family. Before we are born, its our soul that decides. We are all souls. And coming to earth is like a really long lecture in a really far off school. We come to earth to learn and once we learn and complete our life’s mission or purpose, we go back to being souls again. Its during the initial stages of our soul existence that we chose our families or the people that matter. And yes once again, its our choice! The concept of free will is a little hard to understand. For me at least. A free will can have so many definitions yet so few.
Now let me get one thing straight. A soul mate is not confined to a single person. What I feel is that an individual can have more than one soul mate and this soul mate doesn’t necessarily have to be a love interest. Suppose u get along great with your dad, and share the same experiences and thoughts and perceptions and a handful more, I say that by all means your dad can be your soul mate!
Once we enter the dating game, we enter a different league all together. Then suddenly everything and everyone seems so different. And hence we search our soul mate in the motley of people around us. I always say variety is the spice of life and what variety we have. And seriously, life is nothing without something spicy and something out of the ordinary. So now you may ask me, what if I don’t have some one like that? The answer is, sure you do! You just havent found him/her yet. I do believe that there is some one for everyone but I don’t know whether happiness is guaranteed and confined to that one person. So its quite possible that you may find some who ends up being your life partner and you just cant seem to find your happiness with that person! So naturally, he cant be your soul mate! So do you go out there and search for your soul mate? Well I don’t know if searching has been the solution for decades because nothing can be that easy right? Maybe we just have to wait for our soul mate to come to us. And what if he doesn’t? Well, of course he/she will at some point and some form in your life. It’s up to you to recognize and accept the person. Many a times we don’t know what we have until it’s gone and many a times the perfect person is in front of us but we shun them away either cause of the futile attempts to recognize them or cause they seemed too good to be true. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. But then isn’t this the time when the saying comes to mind, “nothing is perfect or no one is perfect”.
Gosh this life sure is mystifying. I’ve concluded a lot of things. One is that yes, everyone does have a soul mate but not necessarily in the same form! Yes we will find our soul mate but it is up to us to recognize the soul mate. The options are laid down in front of us and it’s our free will and our decision to make. Yes, our soul mate will bring us happiness. So next time you think about a soul mate, think for a minute if you have some one who is closer than close to you. Think of all the people you know and think of the one that makes you the happiest. All of us have at least someone whom we can look up to or look beside and know that the person will be there no matter what! And if you don’t, then just be patient. Your soul mate is probably on his/her way booking tickets just to be near you whether you know it or not ;)
These are questions that really have no answer or have a lot of more unanswered sub questions. One cannot help but ponder over them. It is indeed fascinating as to how something so specific can turn into something so vague? Is the need to find your soul mate an excuse to keep the hope for a perfect relationship alive? To keep going and to keep growing strong? Is it just a figment of our imagination? Does the mind’s eye look beyond the perfect relationship? Can we accept the imperfections in our soul mate and yet call him a soul mate? Would he even be a soul mate then?
Firstly, what are soul mates? A soul mate is a different soul yet similar in ways more than one. A soul mate is one who integrates with your soul so as to share your thoughts feelings and understanding and coping with your way of life and yet being able to find happiness in what you do. Your soul mate is the one who makes you feel easy and comfortable and strong. Another soul on the same wave length as you are. So knowing what soul mates are, the question now is, can we find them if they exist?
Well what I’ve always felt is that soul mates do exist. But I don’t know if we always find them, We being some of us. A reading I had done once ages ago told me that we chose everything in life. God puts the options in front of us. And it’s our will and it’s our free will. We chose what we want. Right or wrong, the choice is ours. If we desire right, one cannot imagine the extensive gain but a wrong choice compels us to face the dire consequences. Consequence is a negative word for me. How can there be good consequences? They wouldn’t be called consequences then! We chose our happiness. Happiness lies in so many things that once again we opt for like family, friends, lifestyle, career etc etc.
Yes surprising as that may sound, we chose our family. Before we are born, its our soul that decides. We are all souls. And coming to earth is like a really long lecture in a really far off school. We come to earth to learn and once we learn and complete our life’s mission or purpose, we go back to being souls again. Its during the initial stages of our soul existence that we chose our families or the people that matter. And yes once again, its our choice! The concept of free will is a little hard to understand. For me at least. A free will can have so many definitions yet so few.
Now let me get one thing straight. A soul mate is not confined to a single person. What I feel is that an individual can have more than one soul mate and this soul mate doesn’t necessarily have to be a love interest. Suppose u get along great with your dad, and share the same experiences and thoughts and perceptions and a handful more, I say that by all means your dad can be your soul mate!
Once we enter the dating game, we enter a different league all together. Then suddenly everything and everyone seems so different. And hence we search our soul mate in the motley of people around us. I always say variety is the spice of life and what variety we have. And seriously, life is nothing without something spicy and something out of the ordinary. So now you may ask me, what if I don’t have some one like that? The answer is, sure you do! You just havent found him/her yet. I do believe that there is some one for everyone but I don’t know whether happiness is guaranteed and confined to that one person. So its quite possible that you may find some who ends up being your life partner and you just cant seem to find your happiness with that person! So naturally, he cant be your soul mate! So do you go out there and search for your soul mate? Well I don’t know if searching has been the solution for decades because nothing can be that easy right? Maybe we just have to wait for our soul mate to come to us. And what if he doesn’t? Well, of course he/she will at some point and some form in your life. It’s up to you to recognize and accept the person. Many a times we don’t know what we have until it’s gone and many a times the perfect person is in front of us but we shun them away either cause of the futile attempts to recognize them or cause they seemed too good to be true. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. But then isn’t this the time when the saying comes to mind, “nothing is perfect or no one is perfect”.
Gosh this life sure is mystifying. I’ve concluded a lot of things. One is that yes, everyone does have a soul mate but not necessarily in the same form! Yes we will find our soul mate but it is up to us to recognize the soul mate. The options are laid down in front of us and it’s our free will and our decision to make. Yes, our soul mate will bring us happiness. So next time you think about a soul mate, think for a minute if you have some one who is closer than close to you. Think of all the people you know and think of the one that makes you the happiest. All of us have at least someone whom we can look up to or look beside and know that the person will be there no matter what! And if you don’t, then just be patient. Your soul mate is probably on his/her way booking tickets just to be near you whether you know it or not ;)
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Adversity long gone...
Well, after an extremely extensive break, ive finally decided to update my blog.
Now even though I have no one special to thank for this decision, I cant refrain from mentioning the importance of the love of my life in all of this! Minky aka Prani aka Praneeta aka many other things lol, has enthused this blog shit in me! And how I love her for it!
It was back in the days when we lived in the same country! Lol, well prani im going to dedicate an entire blog post just for you and our undying eternal love! You deserve it.
Trying not to be too random and muddled up in my order of content, it is mandatory that I tell those of you interested how my state of education/so called college life is progressing.
Well progressing is a rather strong word with regard to the present circumstances which I will detail in a bit! After my last depressing post, and that oath I had taken, a new found power had engulfed me. That same feeling you get when you crave something bad enough to kill for it. And what lengths one goes to get there! Well I don’t know what length I went, but I did accomplish my ultimate ambition anyway! To an extent atleast. Which is why I mentioned that progress would be a strong word.
A little more clarity in my lexis would give away that I did make friends, and good friends and best friends! And I did prove whatever I wanted to. And people know me now. Not that it was the ultimate goal of my life. Well it was. Until I saw what my college was like. Lol. Now need I say more?
Looks like a little filling in is so necessary for you less educated ones…
So what defines cool in my college? Read on…
1. Having more than one friend.
2. Speaking Marathi.
3. Having friends who speak Marathi.
4. Sitting in college till dusk and even after dusk pretending like your really busy.
5. Knowing where every person can be found in any corner of the college.
6. NOT eating canteen food cause its so uncool.
7. Wearing new clothes atleast once in three days. (lol seriously)
8. Having all the notes from all the professors.
9. Studying from them.
10. Not sharing your notes with anybody even if they ask you and you are holding it in front of their face.
11. Playing “Fifa 07” on the class projector.
12. Having an orkut account. (the ultimate definition of cool)
13. Using your orkut account in class and projecting it on the screen so that the whole class can see how cool you are. Lol
14. Going to hang out at the “open canteen”
15. Being over friendly with the canteen walla and calling him “anna” just because he sells south Indian food. Lol
16. Knowing MS OFFICE like the back of your hand.
17. Being a “cell member”
18. Being over friendly with seniors.
19. Thinking the computer lab is the coolest place after the planetarium.
20. Attending every single class and refusing to proxy your attendance.
Well of course theres more. Naturally im bored and tired by now! Lol
Now that I have declared how “cool” I am, maybe I need to elaborate on how you all need to stay away from me! Lol atleast for the next two years and until im done “being cool”
I definitely donot want you all to suffer the way you all did after reading Praneeta’s ridiculously rubbish and extensively long blog by writing long and complex sentences assuming that each one of you has the time and patience to actually read and then congratulate my efforts of being overly smart and filled with the power of general knowledge and current affairs knowledge about unnecessary things like life in Romania and the nuclear war in Czechoslovakia which never happened now that ive a new found career line… umm never mind. The above is why im ending my blog entry here! LOL
Sorry Prani.
Cheerz
Now even though I have no one special to thank for this decision, I cant refrain from mentioning the importance of the love of my life in all of this! Minky aka Prani aka Praneeta aka many other things lol, has enthused this blog shit in me! And how I love her for it!
It was back in the days when we lived in the same country! Lol, well prani im going to dedicate an entire blog post just for you and our undying eternal love! You deserve it.
Trying not to be too random and muddled up in my order of content, it is mandatory that I tell those of you interested how my state of education/so called college life is progressing.
Well progressing is a rather strong word with regard to the present circumstances which I will detail in a bit! After my last depressing post, and that oath I had taken, a new found power had engulfed me. That same feeling you get when you crave something bad enough to kill for it. And what lengths one goes to get there! Well I don’t know what length I went, but I did accomplish my ultimate ambition anyway! To an extent atleast. Which is why I mentioned that progress would be a strong word.
A little more clarity in my lexis would give away that I did make friends, and good friends and best friends! And I did prove whatever I wanted to. And people know me now. Not that it was the ultimate goal of my life. Well it was. Until I saw what my college was like. Lol. Now need I say more?
Looks like a little filling in is so necessary for you less educated ones…
So what defines cool in my college? Read on…
1. Having more than one friend.
2. Speaking Marathi.
3. Having friends who speak Marathi.
4. Sitting in college till dusk and even after dusk pretending like your really busy.
5. Knowing where every person can be found in any corner of the college.
6. NOT eating canteen food cause its so uncool.
7. Wearing new clothes atleast once in three days. (lol seriously)
8. Having all the notes from all the professors.
9. Studying from them.
10. Not sharing your notes with anybody even if they ask you and you are holding it in front of their face.
11. Playing “Fifa 07” on the class projector.
12. Having an orkut account. (the ultimate definition of cool)
13. Using your orkut account in class and projecting it on the screen so that the whole class can see how cool you are. Lol
14. Going to hang out at the “open canteen”
15. Being over friendly with the canteen walla and calling him “anna” just because he sells south Indian food. Lol
16. Knowing MS OFFICE like the back of your hand.
17. Being a “cell member”
18. Being over friendly with seniors.
19. Thinking the computer lab is the coolest place after the planetarium.
20. Attending every single class and refusing to proxy your attendance.
Well of course theres more. Naturally im bored and tired by now! Lol
Now that I have declared how “cool” I am, maybe I need to elaborate on how you all need to stay away from me! Lol atleast for the next two years and until im done “being cool”
I definitely donot want you all to suffer the way you all did after reading Praneeta’s ridiculously rubbish and extensively long blog by writing long and complex sentences assuming that each one of you has the time and patience to actually read and then congratulate my efforts of being overly smart and filled with the power of general knowledge and current affairs knowledge about unnecessary things like life in Romania and the nuclear war in Czechoslovakia which never happened now that ive a new found career line… umm never mind. The above is why im ending my blog entry here! LOL
Sorry Prani.
Cheerz
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
