There is one thing guaranteed for us humans during our physical reality.
The very first breath guarantees that there will be the last breath.
Nothing else, in between the first and last breath, is a certainty.
Yet we make elaborate plans for our lives! Do you know of anyone whose life has gone on according to their calculated plans?
By the way, a lot of the planning of our lives is not even based on who we believe we are, what our true passions and desires are. It’s based on what others determine for us or borrowed ideas. (And that is whole another topic for another blog post!)
We accumulate tremendous stress trying to be ‘secure’ and know the outcome of all future events.
But, something or the other keeps going off-track our planned route.
This cat and mouse chase generates so much fear and squeezes the fun out of the game of life.
Picture this:
Two basketball teams are playing a match. Both have done their best to practice and prepare, and both want to win. Both have a strategy to win. Depending on how the other team plays, both teams are flexible enough to shift their strategies as the game moves along.
Rest is unknown. That unknown, that suspense is the thrill of the game. It is as exciting for the players as the spectators.
Everyone knows how utterly boring it would be to know every move of each player beforehand.
What is the fun of knowing the guaranteed outcome of the match? Or how each player will perform within the game?
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Similarly, we can prepare, practice, strategize and do the best we know at the moment. But planning in such a way that it becomes a crushing process of controlling the outcome is disastrous.
It is disastrous because it makes us fall into emotions that create a chain reaction of more and more resistance to life. Emotions like hatred, bitterness, and apathy lead to states like severe depression or violent rage.
It becomes a process of limited and finite mind trying to control the eternal and infinite spirit.
God is The Supreme Intelligence. It knows the Whole picture and sends out only what is in our highest good our way, whatever serves our spiritual growth in the best way.
God is Pure Love. It never punishes. It only gives us challenges again and again in the form of opportunities to see the error of our ways and try to connect back to our spirit, relinquishing the control by the mind.
God is Pure Light. It throws light on the areas of our lives in the darkness of ignorance so we can surrender control of the mind.
If we relinquish the iron grip on the outcome, we can enjoy the game of life instead of existing in fear of some new unmet effect.
Ultimately we can only change ourselves; we can not control others, the planet, or the Universe.
“Not my will, but Yours be done.”
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Blessed Be!
Ritu
