It Happens!

Before getting into the aspects of yoga i would like to share a few personal spiritual experiences with my friends on this blog site.

  I believe in things happening, fate, divine will ruling my life, albeit the effect of the planetary positions in my horoscope (almost 90 per cent of forecasts have come true!).Things should happen! na trunamapi chalati tena vinaa| Not a blade of grass stirs without His Will. The memory chip is inscribed in the DNA and RNA conveys it and the personality blooms as and when it should! There is nothing one can do on the face of it. Once the jiva has entered the earth as particle of stellar dust from a distant star it has take up all that is earthly (pancha mahabhutatmika) or elemental with the associated qualities (traigunya vishaya veda). the form assumed by the jiva is immaterial.

  Now, the jiva runs its errands as per the divine will. Everything happens as ordained by fate, destiny. But there is what is given to jiva as "free will". This sva icCha or svecChe. whatever the jiva does in svecCha does not come under Lord's will since it is subject to individual's whim and fancy; however, a small antardhvani, inner voice of consciousness warns the jiva, if it cares to hear!  This is where karma bandhana starts ( as seed for rebirths). Some people are cautious in exercising this free will and thereby escape the clutches of maya.

  When things happen on their own, the divine will is operating taking the jiva on its right path (sat nyas) to the logical end- mukti. The jiva gets knowledge (para vidya), knowledge of scriptures by grace of Lord, intuitional knowledge and ability to decode the scriptures, practice yoga and even get a 'guru' to take him on the pre-ordained sanyasa!

  The natural state of the jiva is sat chit and ananda. The sat only vibrates as chit (consciousness) and becomes chittavrutti, chetasa, chaitya and chetana and the jiva. The jiva vibrates with prana and gets embodies a prani (animation). Thus the mula svarupa, true nature of the jiva is saccidananda. The grip of prakruti, maya, over the jiva is such that the jiva forgets its true nature and suffers dualities. The jiva gets into delusion in the hope of fulfilling its aspirations, dreams and desires as a result of its ignorance. A Guru will finally redeem it. Guru is a homa kunda, the fire-pot where the jiva offers its ego and all acquired qualities and becomes free. The role of Guru is thus of immense help in redeeming the soul from its predicament.
  A redeemed soul will be established in its Self and is called a sthitaprajnya here. A true sanyasi is one who is unmindful of his duties and obligations, totally at the service of the Lord, sharana, surrendered to the higher self (paramatman), is already redeemed (sadyomukta) and need not wait for the pralaya anta, end of the eon/kalpa.
   The entire episode of a jiva's journey on this earth is shrouded with mystery. Science and technology, as it is coming within maya, the grip of time, space and causality, cannot reveal the secret. The scriptures, too, cannot help since they are in coded language, full of images, icons and secret/esoteric meanings and languages unknown to humans, as deva-bhasha. The ancient Rishis and the contemporary ones, too, who have attained siddhi in yoga, reach the intuitional/ anahata state of savikalpa and samprajnyata samadhi will know the truth. Even these learned yogins do not part with their knowledge to all and sundry, engaged in mundane existence. Thus, blessed are those who gai Lord's grace by constant japa, tapa, harinama smarane, chants of divine name.