Why Are We Here?
Posted on Jun 20, 2020 by Harsh Vardhan (Founder Director & Trainer), Nidhi Agrawal (Co-founder, Director & Trainer)
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The world is a stage. We have all come here to play a role assigned to us. These roles were given to us based on what we have done in the past. There were lessons to be learnt, karmic debt to be squared off, desires to be fulfilled, the backlog of several lifetimes had to be accounted for and so on.
To do this we came on to this planet wearing a fragile body that can be easily maimed and hurt. A body that is vulnerable to injury, disease and old age. We left our heavenly and superior sojourn of the astral world to live out a life in this limited way. A body that is restricted and limited by its physical strength and innately dependent on the five senses.
We do take the trade fair of life very real and seriously. The saints have often cautioned man and advised that one must control the senses. The higher facts of life are known to all but really understood by a few and rarely deployed by a handful. The scriptures did not tell us this because this is a good thing but because this is a useful way to get out of the rut of rebirth.
Desires! Rather unmet desires, mainly cause us to reincarnate. The more we interact with our environment the more karmic threads we create. The sense engagements start a new account book of give and take. We had initially come here to square off the old karmas and we end up creating new ones thus never able to free ourselves from this vicious cycle. This endless cycle goes on till the sum total is a zero. Now that we are here let us discuss our reactions in this world.
Here is a very important fact. Being sensitive and emotional are not the same thing. A sensitive person has a finely attuned sense to decipher and feel his or her environment. An emotional person is the one who reacts because of it. It is always so that people think that their troubles are the biggest. They are emotional about themselves and yet do not sense others' problems adequately. Their dangling problems are too close to their vision to be able to see others' issues. Such people are grown up babies. Some stay that way till a very ripe age. They have a fragile heart.
Those who are sensitive and have the maturity to manage their upheavals are the light workers. Those who have brought light, hope and service to the world. They remove thorns from others' feet while withholding their own injuries. They earn wonderful soul karma and fulfill their soul purpose. They unknowingly invest in their soul by serving the grown up babies. However they must thank the people they help. Without them there would have been no service possible. When such service is rendered for no returns, it becomes a hall mark of God in man's form. A true ‘Nishkaam karma'.
At the same time emotional people undergo turmoil. They are failing to handle a situation of loss of relation, money, status, failed goals, disease, unfulfilled desires, dear one's death and a million other things. From God's zoom out view, these do seem as nothings in the larger perspective of life. But to the sufferer they are real, larger than life and very deeply hurting. Some will do unimaginable things in a fit of emotion. It is for those crucial minutes if they get a helping hand, a patient ear or a kind understanding heart, a major catastrophe can be averted.
The problem is that once you are into adulthood, no one really teaches you anything. You are an adult after all. Even people do not welcome instructions especially when they are in early adulthood. The world automatically assumes you know how to carry yourself just because you are in college or you are married or you are doing a job or now you are a parent yourself.
The 8 year old wondering child never dies within us. He is constantly inquisitive, playful, fun loving and mischievous. The world expects you to suddenly behave in an X manner, the acceptable norm. We fall into line and become yet another brick in the wall. Our emotions are all bottled up, our desires toe the majority line, our rehearsed behavior starts marching on the expected lines and so on. Our reality lies buried under the traditions and expectations. At every moment our mind does not like to conform. Someday when the asking is too much the whole thing crumbles. That is the moment a light worker is needed. He or she should be able to shine the light of wisdom on his consciousness. Not to educate or direct. But to love and heal.
Who will be that light worker? Your parents? Friends? Spouse? A stranger? A professional? That's destiny again. It depends on how much you want to seek help and reach out. Most people even when sharing their life with you, want either corroboration or just a patient hearing. They do not want your advice. The sensitive people must remain available to those around them. You never know what may work - A smile, a hand on the shoulder, a silent presence, a genuine appreciation, patience, kindness or some physical or monetary help.
In this battle of Kurukshetra, the daily challenges help us to square off karmas. They should be highly welcomed. More opportunity lies in what we can do for others. Anyone taking our help does us a favour by accepting our service. If we successfully detach from the service we render, as God's work then our soul has progressed several notches. If we take personal credit we have to incarnate to take the same service back from that soul. Why we are here? To serve detachedly and realise who we really are. To realise and not just know that we are made in God's light!!