image: Shinjan Patra
words: Debarati Ray
Now a days, it`s been a common habit for us to chase for something, without knowing whether or not it`s worth chasing for. Those of you`re thinking you should have to pursue for something in your waking life and this pursuit can only help you to reach towards your ultimate destination, I wouldn`t dishearten you by saying that you`re doing anything wrong. But here, one thing you`ve to remember that you need not to rush for that mission. If you`re destined for doing something, it`ll automatically come to you in a natural way. But that doesn`t mean you just have to spend your time in a leisurely way of pipe dreaming, singing any sort of sweet lullaby and destiny will come forward as your only savior. I`m not suggesting you to do so. But if you`re looking for something extraordinary, you need to be more patient and diligent, instead of getting overwhelmed or making yourself feel as a constant chaser towards something, unattainable.
As we all know that achieving your goal is not something like an overnight success, rather a huge process of perseverance where your body, mind and soul rigorously work in a harmonious way to lead you towards that center, towards your ideal purpose where your destiny awaits for you to make you feel that special spark of life. Here in this blog, I would like to explore that enigma that may help you to feel your destined purpose and how you may connect to that energy without rushing for it or getting yourselves overwhelmed.
Now just slow down and perceive:
I know in this materialistic world where all the time you`ve to meet up a certain deadline, so here slowing down, you may think is nothing but only to heighten the chance of your failure, in every respect. Though to some extent you`re true. But have you ever asked yourself; “ Where are you running for? Are you not good enough, you think or is it something unattainable, you`re pursuing for?” On the very first place, you may not find any answer, rather engage yourself after that endless competition. You may find no one but only that overwhelming self, asking you; “How long will it take to complete all these stuff? How long will it take to complete this journey?” But if you probe deep into your heart you may find some other forces at work, within. And this force may never leave you astray, rather lead you to believe in an unseen order of this universe where truth resides. You may bewilder at first. But after some time you may hear someone`s sweet voice, inside; “Never rush for it, my dear! You too have a destined time as all others. When your shadow self will come and tell you to run, making you feel unnerved and beguiled, think twice, ask yourself, are you going all to the right? I`ll be there for you to invite your destiny to lift you up, to make you feel whether this is the reason or not, for which you`re born.” A spontaneous smile may appear on your face. You may perceive where to stop for a while or how to make another step, once again. And this is the reason for what I was suggesting you to slow down your journey, a while to perceive your true mission, to be in accord with your true spiritual center. Otherwise, it may lead you towards a state of existential crisis and you may not find the actual meaning of your life, resulting only depression and ultimately indulging you to take up the decision to quit whatever you had been pursuing for a long span of time.
Never feel yourself a looser, whenever any obstacle comes on your way, try to take it as a blessing in disguise. Always try to feel that this obstacle is here only to move you forward towards that actual harvest time, towards that special purpose where destiny is awaiting for you to introduce the true magic of life! But unfortunately, most of us have a tendency to quit right in the midst of a task, being impatient and worried, making our unconscious to fall under the trap of a self- made, negative pattern of thinking that ultimately tempts us to believe that we`re not worthy enough to finish that job. In order to explicate the matter, I would like to bring an example of a medical student whose overwhelming self never allowed him to feel what his true self is destined for. And as a result of that he never got that success, he wished for. Whenever he got involved into any project, he started to overthink about the entire matter, only causing his overwhelming self to come to the fore and to make him feel that he`s not worthy enough to complete any kind of studies or job. While actually, at every time he was supposed to be just on the verge of completing one of those projects. But in reality every time, he got tensed and quite unknowingly of himself, his unconscious started to work in an opposite direction, only to confront another failure. As he never allowed his unconscious to flow in a natural way without any restrains of fear and worry. Thus failure was the only consequence for him to face at every step.
As a result of that he himself got trapped under a labyrinthine thinking pattern from where he found nothing but only negativity and anxiety, hindering his vision and blocking his real self to perceive the truth of his ideal destiny. He continued to pursue his career one after another and the consequence was just to confront failure in a repetitive way. This is why, I`m suggesting you not to worry, not to be a chaser or a runner, but to pause for a while, take your time to perceive what your heart desires the most. Choose wisely. Instead of being a runner, be a silent walker, a true believer who always has a strong belief in his/ her heart; “Harvest time is yet to come when destiny will pick me up! It`s only a matter of time when faith will allow my heart to choose the right path.”
Just keep your faith alive and allow your destiny to intervene:
Being overwhelmed can only make you feel overburdened and at the same time restless and frustrated, making you feel to view your life as a fruitless survival to cling around something, elusive. Whenever fear comes around, it acts like a cobweb, tempting your unconscious to overthink and analyze any matter only with the tools of some negative thought patterns. It can also lead you towards a state of false self- recognition, towards that stage from where your overwhelming self may continually force you not to choose the right path according to the divine order. Rather, it may hinder that spontaneous flow of your heart`s desire, blocking those pathways where your soul might find her solace, her eternal shelter. I`m not saying about any temporary reclusion that your soul may have. But, here I`m talking about your mission, that destined purpose of your soul on this planet. Rushing towards something, getting overwhelmed may also hinder you to have that true self- reflection and at the same time blocking that special power where a fruitful imagination can open up your heart space and inspire you to create a newer you that your soul yearns for. And as time goes by with the help of this faithful imagination, you may have that feeling of being true to yourself. Your inner seed may once again start to flourish. Once again, the meaning of your life may start to appear before you in a newer way, in a way where you need not to surrender yourself to that overwhelming, shadowy part, rather may feel that calmness, within to contemplate where your destiny wants you to fit in. And in the course of this contemplation, you may also perceive that higher calling, very much aligned to your soul`s purpose.
Here in comes the necessity of knowing your own mission on this earth. And this mission can only be recognized if you allow your consciousness to have that faith on the divine intelligence, governing the entire universe. As we all are connected to that divine, never allow your heart to lose that inner balance. If you`re pursuing for anything, never indulge your overwhelming self to move forward, rather allow your inner self to be centered in order to recognize your ideal passion for which you`re born. A complete faith on divine intelligence is always helpful to flourish within, flourish according to your soul`s desires in order to bring forth the true artist, hidden at the core of being. And out of nowhere, out of nothing you may discover that wonderland, within yourself where destiny may invite you to rename your soul`s purpose, enabling you to discover that true abode of bliss and contentment. And there you no longer feel yourself as a helpless runner, chasing after something unattainable, but as a true believer, a true artist who can paint her story as a rich tapestry. And there only your complete faith on the divine comes as a deeper realization to perceive the reality in a newer way, leaving yourself completely at the hand of your destiny. And here once again, your inner self may jerk you up, ask you to put aside all those worries and be faithful and thankful to what your destiny is bringing for you. You may listen to her gentle whispers, lurking within;
“I`m here with you/ If the chaser, inside tempts you to rush/ never fall under his trap/ but wait for your destiny to come forward/ to make you feel, you`ve an inner seed/ an inner voice that still sings/ that song of love/ that song where your soul meets her every needs/ and treasures within, a special mirth to feel.”
Always remember; you`re a promised person:
You may have in your mind that right at the beginning of this blog, I`ve discussed about a medical student who had failed at every respect of his career. But there is some untold mystery that I haven’t told you yet! And that mystery is nothing, but the mystery of how that failed person finally got a higher level of consciousness in a state of self- revelation in order to evolve himself according to the whims of his destiny. And there, once again, he got back not only the spark of his life but also the true meaning of his existence that his overwhelming self never allowed him to realize.
Sometimes, destiny knocks at your heart`s door. An intuitive feeling you may only have. But unfortunately, most of the time you get nervous, you ignore that higher calling, once again depriving your soul`s desire. And as a result of that failure comes in its natural course. Most of the time, you use your will power to achieve that success, completely forgetting the fact that will power actually comes not from your mind, but from your heart where truth resides, helping you to move forward not only for the sake of your destiny to embrace, but to make you feel that you`re not a looser, rather a promised one on this planet. Do you want to know what exactly had happened to that student? Here, I would like to bring that experience in his own words;
“I was very much depressed. Everything was going out of my control. All the time I used to hide myself. You may think, it was only because of that failure, I was going through. But the actual cause was not like that. I preferred to hide myself to think what wrong was going with me. I used to console myself. Sometimes I got overburdened. Sometimes I also used to play my favorite flute that my father presented me on my fifteenth birthday. It was only a release from that stress, I was going through to bring back that calmness inside that I was not getting at that time consciously. During those days, somehow I felt that my hiding self was trying to tell me something else. But I kept ignoring that voice and engaged myself into another venture, into a new business idea only to encounter another massive failure. I was completely lost, didn`t know what to do but quite unconsciously engaged myself, more into that art of flute playing. Whenever reality had been appearing before me as a painful encounter, I chose to be silent, letting my heart to play that musical harmony in its own natural way. Still, I didn`t know why and how that harmony was working behind the scenes! For the first few days, it started to act like a password, a password for bringing back my happy hours. Hours after hours I started to engage myself into that harmonious practice.
Somehow, I started to feel that I was mending up some gaps. I was bridging up a long lost harmony. Somehow, I felt that I might have a primordial connection to that flute. I didn`t know how but quite surprisingly, I felt a perfect unison with my higher self, whenever I got myself engaged into that artful harmonious task! I never felt overwhelmed or tensed like before. Rather, a heartfelt harmony started to brim over me. And quite surprisingly, I started to believe, I`m also the promised one! A promised, chosen one by the universal energy to complete my destined purpose on this earth. But that night was quite different when tears came into my eyes for the first time. That night, I didn`t even know how long I played that flute. That was a silent night with only a mystic moon, gleaming on the sky. I was deeply absorbed into that eternal harmony of homecoming! And I`m still grateful to that night that came to me not only as some sort of revelation, but as some higher truth; the truth of eternity, the truth of my destiny!”
You may think, how was this miracle happened to him? Be patient, my dear! Just allow your consciousness to expand its horizon. There you may find the truth, the truth of eternity, the truth of that final homecoming. The truth that helped that medical student to perceive his destiny, his true potential as a flute artist. The truth that may appear as something beyond any reality of this tangible world, but has the reality within itself. The truth for which you`re destined, since your primordial existence;
“You may go up and down/ somewhere may succeed/ somewhere may feel, you`re nothing/ but a clown, inside/ your tattered self may ask you to choose, another side/ then silence may come to make you feel/ you need not to worry but there is some other way, around/ your artist inside, trembles for a while/ then destiny knocks again to make you feel/ you`re neither a chaser, nor a machine itself/ rather a believer, instead/ So now it`s time for you/ to feel yourself/ to feel your being/ with all its eternal grace!”
