Life Is Serendipitous!

Is life a series of random occurrences or are the events in our life truly in sync with something greater? There is the saying that everything happens for a reason, to benefit us somehow and teach us the lessons we need to learn in order to live to our fullest potential. As part of a weekly study group, I discuss topics such as this one with the people I meet with. We study the philosophy of Vedanta together. Currently, we are reading a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chinmayananda. He complied a series of talks directed toward the youth of India but they are actually relevant to people of every age and culture living in today's world.

In Chapter 10, Krishna, who represents the human manifestation of God explains to Arjuna, a common man, that he, or God is within everything and that life would not exist with out him. When one is conscious, one will begin to recognize this as fact. We were given "homework" which was to observe life's synchronicities.

As soon as I focused on "doing" my homework, I began to notice that every day was full of synchronicities. For example, I would think about a friend whom I haven't spoken to in a while and then sure enough, I received a phone call from them. As I drove, I noticed how in sync the traffic flow was that day. I would meditate with a friend in another state and then we would discuss what we felt. We could actually feel each others energy in similar ways. Spring is upon us now, so I am spending more time outside, just walking or sitting, immersing myself in observation. There are unlimited synchronicites and patterns in nature, like the veins of a dried leaf with our own circulation system. Plants are breathing out oxygen as we release carbon. I could go on and on with examples I experienced throughout the two weeks I tuned in.

As I notice more and more patterns and similarities it became more easy to understand the concept of Universal Energy. "We are all one!" Everything is woven together with invisible threads and everything is interdependent upon each other. It is quite a miracle! It made me feel, that, "yes, God is everywhere and in everything!"

We can get a little clouded and feel a great disconnect when we feel a sense of separation and isolation. To alleviate these feelings, we can think about how a prism reflects the sunlight, which could represent God or universal energy, into a rainbow spectrum, which could represent all our choices and points of views. The One becomes the many. And if we were to look at this process in reverse, we see that the source of the many is One. Just as a seed is full of potential and contains all aspects of the plant within it, the seed itself is an un-manifest expression of it's full potential.

We are all seeds. We have the potential to grow into full expressions of God, yet we oftentimes get caught in a cycle of the ego, the I, the me, the mine. It's like looking at half the picture with one eye closed. We forget our depth, our source, our connection. As we learn to become the witness and accept life fully without projecting our desires onto this or that and without judgement, we can begin to see the whole picture, feel whole and see those invisible threads that weave all of life together. We begin to see God everywhere! It is quite a transformational experience!

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