Unraveling the Mystery of Life

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A tale of romance and broken hearts.

A young man resorted to help from an introduction agency to find his wife-to-be.

The Agency introduced to him, one after the other, several lovely girls. Each time the young man was back in the Agent's office, saying his mother did not like the girl. "If my mother does not like the girl I marry,' the young man explained, 'life will be a pain for my wife, my mother, and for me. Trouble all around. I had better not marry only to ruin our lives.'

'Very sensible,' the agent agreed.

So the Mother was invited to the Agent's office. Son and Mother agreed on a fabulous girl, and arrangements were made to have her for dinner at the Mother's home.

The next day, our young man was back again before the agent.

'My Dad rejected the girl.' he said.


UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF LIFE

I want to believe that we create our own reality.

Especially so because this is the ancient Veda philosophy, and of Shri Raman Maharshi, and of Paul Brunton, all those that I immensely admire.

But I do not understand how, if that is so, I can be ill, when I have certainly not wished myself any illness.

Or, I have a robbery, or an accident, which I have certainly not wished for.

I have been trying to unravel this mystery of life over the last few months, scouring through many books and listening to learned scholars.

Gill Edwards (of 'Living Magically') and Louise Hay (of 'You can Heal Your Life') say that such untoward events reflect our deep desires or fears. They say that we should look for lessons we need to learn from those set backs. We should look for the good messages that these events are telling us.

According to them, the last thing we should do is to use these events to confirm our view of the wolrd, like, "I am too busy to exercise" or, 'It is a wicked world out there.'

This, looking for a silver lining in dark clouds, seems to me to be an acceptable way of looking at unfortunate, unwished for, events in my life.

Another author, Richard Moss, M.D.(of 'How Shall I Live") advises that there are other dimensions to life apart from the ones of time, and space. He says that when one blames one's own self for an illness, as per "we create your own reality" theory, one is looking at cause-effect relationships from a false Newtonian like concept of life.

According to him, we need to develop a sense of awareness wherein at all moments we are concious of our own body, the events around us, and time, all being fused together into one whole. He has coined a word for getting to this state of awareness - "enwhlong."

By living in an 'enwholed' state of consciousness we would grasp the meaning behind our apparent misfortune, and get over that much more easily than otherwise, just walloing in our misery.

I have known some one say that misfortunes are an opportunity to strengthen the soul. Just accept the hard luck, and live through the adverse moments, overcoming the sadness.

Suffering is a choice we make when faced with an ugly situation, and we might as well choose to be delighted by the sorrowful situation.

Our soul, our character as a person, is strengthened when one can choose joy where others would choose to cry.

I have yet to experience for myself the state of consciousness these enlightened people are telling me about.

It is like me, having read all about the tastes of varieties of apples, being able to answer off any questions any one asks about the taste of each variety of apple, but without ever having tasted any, and not gone beyond using words to describe the different taste of apples.

I will let you know what I experience when I reach that stage.

Will my doing so help me make the world a better place?

I hope the enlightened people who say that by improving myself, I can make the whole world a better place, are right.

Wishing you all the best, Shree-1