What Operates Our Lives?

   When we look back how we have grown from day one to the present, little do we understand what governs our lives. We do not know the way we grow from a small child to the grown up and reach ripe old age and time flies! The sages asked us to look back, have a glimpse by peeping into your past, but it is not that easy. 'Atma avalokana', looking back at one's life, is a very tough job when we are violently pushed by the past and pulled by the future! Very rarely, we get some time to think about all these! This led to the Poet to exclaim, "If all the life is full of wares, where is the time to stand and stare?" However, a day will definitely come when we leisurely sit and look back! 

   Little do we know about the subtler and subtler forces that govern our lives. We are all enmeshed in a web of delicate invisible strong forces that are classified by the scientists as- Energy, electromagnetism, gravitational waves and atomic energy. It is this atomic energy that is the soul-power, the power of the soul. It contains all the knowledge, intelligence, technology and ability to transfer knowledge into objects of desire! This is the KITKAT of the soul. The soul, is literally the source of all knowledge. The Veda states: Atmai vedgm sarvam |, meaning, the 'Atman' knows all! 

   To back to the primordial matter, it is, in a way, the soul that is impregnated and takes a certain form of the body! It contains the entire design and the prototype is there as template. The one energetic vibrant sperm impregnated into a cell does all the trick! The soul is energy in its primordial state and it is the same for all the stars, the galaxies, the life forms and the jivas! This is what Bhagavan Shree Krishna says, "I am the self of all", The soul is the Atman, the vibrant energy, chaitanya. This is the seed and the Lord says, "I am the seed"! He, the Lord says, "I only exist and nothing exists beside Me!"

   The entire universe is a mesh of subtler forces acting and interacting with all the knowledge information and power of action! It is put in the Vedic terms as the sat, chit and ananda and translated into forms of  devi devata, each one characterized by a particular power, force, shakti. Thus we have the same subtler forces operating in our nerves and neurons, numbering 72 000, 36 thousands on each side of our body and, ten each that branches out from the main nerve, that moves out of the main knot of nerve called the 'kurma nadi', the antahkarana! It is this kurma nadi that governs our lives conveying all our knowledge of the past (karma)! It is also the main cause of our entanglements in life, such as, moha, mada, matsarya,  krodha, lobha, kamana, irshye, svartha, and a hundred others (kauravas avagunas included). But for these, the jiva is as pure as crystal Shiva! In fact, these are the blemishes of the soul, rather the upadhi, not the true self! Whatever color of the flower one puts on the crystal, that color as upadhi shines! Thus, each jiva displays the quality that it has inherited from the waves and vibrations of the distant stars, particularly the one that star which governs it, as seen in the birth chart!