Coincidences

Hi folks !

I hope all of you are happy and peaceful even when rushing about doing your work and living your life!


Take a nice, slow deep breath once in a while and feel it coming in and going out.

Smile!


Bijjal, nice to hear from you and that too in connection with brothers Vispi and Rattoo!

You gave me a topic too, one of my favourites!


Coincidences!

Do you, dear readers, think that things happen coincidentally??

Does something - or anything, happen by chance or by design?

Once, I believed that a coincidence was God's grace, that I had earned it by my good behaviour or prayer or He made it happen to compensate His earlier indifference to my pleas or right(eous) demands!

But even when I was behaving good, I always wondered if that was enough.

Weren't the thoughts going on in ones mind important too?

Why did coincidences happen so suddenly or unexpectedly?

They did not seem to come around when I had been a good soul for a long time, whereas at other times they happened when I had been short-tempered or lazy or bad.

In short, they happened when they happened, not always when I wanted them and not specifically by anyone's grace or curse.

Some coincidents were inexplicable at that time and for some time after too.

Then I looked at what did happen AFTER the coincidence took place, and there was the answer!

Just look back into your experiences -you meet someone at the most opportune moment who gives you a piece of news, a direction, some information which turns out to be quite useful to whatever you are doing or thinking at that time.

It is not earthshaking, every time.

Maybe a call or a mail from someone nice which puts one in a better mood.

Many times, it sows seeds to a friendship or business or a relationship which takes off either immideately or after a while -or not at all.

A coincidence can be called the fruit of ones past karma.

One has it coming!

One may have planned on the big ones before taking birth, when everyone, in the in-between stage, charts out ones lessons to learn and progress to be achieved.

But every huge Oak or Banyan tree starts as a small seed and so it is with coincidences, each one is for a purpose, and may seem insignificant at that time.

However,many times, YOU may be used as a channel for someone else's coincidence!

For eg. you come across a lost person and give direction.

Read a book you dont much agree with but then found someone to give it to whose life changed completely!

One doesnt know which is going to turn into a miracle.

Some coincidences do turn out nasty.

There may be heartache, cheating, loss of esteem or money or many things which are not pleasant.

Well, they teach too, to be careful, trusting to a point and to be incharge of ones own life.

With everyKkarma comes something else, without fail, like the other side of the same coin, and that is FREE WILL.

Coincidences happen, but what one does with them is ones own choice and it should be a conscious decision, one should not just drift into it.

So one can actually decide to be positive and helpful and happy and become a channel for other people's coincidences.

The universe always gives back, or one can say, with such seed sown, sooner or later, one is going to benifit too.

So go ahead and believe in them!Knowing Bijjal has already been a joy and there may be more to unfold!

Similarly with others who touch ones life and whose life we touch.If the reason wants to remain a mystery for a while, let it!

Think back on the coincidences in your life and enjoy them with a smile.

In case they were not very pleasant, think over them a little more and make sure you have learnt the lesson they had come to teach.

Send up thanks to the universe and be prepared, happily, for the next one!

Bye for now-