deja vu...

Have you ever been in this situation: You are talking to a friend in a restaurant and suddenly you realise that you had been in that situation before....with your friend sipping his tea and you sitting with legs crossed, looking at him over the flower vase kept in the centre of the table....and talking about the same topic.......deja vu...which in French means "already seen".

I have been in somany such "deja vu"s.....and everytime it opens up new understanding of Life and its purpose. Lets take for example...you always dreamt of visiting Switzerland since your childhood...and one lucky day you get to go to your dream land and suddenly realize in Switzerland that you had been there before.....deja vu....how do you feel...

A casual pilgrim in this journey of life would only take "deja vu" as some coincidence....but a serious pilgrim would sit down and take lessons.....i suggest...please take lessons.....

Well the way i look at this whole phenomenon of deja vu is this: We human beings are endowed with a power far superior to that of the animal kingdom....to foresee our future.. !!!!! I have read this in some book..i guess The tenth insight ....it says...we are continuously told about our future in our dreams....but poor and ignorant souls as we are...forget them or simply neglect them....we dont even know that some such suggestion was given to us in our dreams. But these deja vu's only confirm such paranormal rendezvous with our soul mates...as the book calls them.

Let me talk about one more unexplained mystery which is taking place in this 21st C, the age of information, logic and reasoning.....nadi astrology....dont ask me whether i believe it or not....but i always look at something from this perspective...if something exists and presents itself before us it is for a purpose...

Now this nadi is supposed to be a database of the past present and the future of all the mortals (atleast majority of them as some leaves i hear have been destroyed). Some sages of the yore had applied themselves to this massive task of writing about the future human beings who would walk the face of this earth....sounds amazing isnt it.. Now the serious pilgrim should ask this question...how did the sages of the ancient times possess such a power?

Any increase in power of the intellect/mind is generally related to the evolution of that particular species...if the sages of the ancient times were more superior than us in intellect then what is evolution? Does evolution as the scientist talk about, relates only to physical form....should we not have to have a more holistic theory that encompasses all the three bodies of a human - gross, subtle and causal?

Evolution is talked about in terms of the adaptation to the surroundings....So if we possess low intellect does it mean through our evolution we have crossed a phase...quite mysterious...during which time the environment demanded very less from us with regards to adaptation?? Or is it that only few people had that capacity and evetually have become extinct??...and is deja vu the remnants of such mysterious powers???

Well there have been many questions....and i confess that there would be lot of questions...more and more....These quesitons are not be answered, but to be asked...for the very act of questioning, i believe, gives a lot of insight.

The Beginning...

Everything in this world and outside has to have a beginning. I have always wondered at this concept of creation which many schools of thought have tried explaining. I wish to talk about the two major thoughts here: (iam not making any direct reference to the authors)

We in our daily lives witness lot of happenings, and the curious ones among us (like me!!) try and explain the logic behind the happening. But some things just go over us, unexplained - coincidences. Some choose to call coincidences - Miracles. Miracles like these have changed lives, saved the innocent ones, and helped the pious ones. And we are a daily witnesses to such miracles (coincidences) that right in front of our eyes have shaped lives. The concept of creation as a miracle, according to me is just an extension of such daily experiences. Why can't the whole world be just another miracle? Believers of this school of thought cannot take anything to be coincidences but incidents created by GOD. Thus the whole creation was considered as something willed by GOD and considered the greatest miracles in the Universe.

Now lets give a chance to the curious ones (people prefer to call these, scientists). Man has progressively been able to answer questions that once remained unanswered (deliberately?...we will talk about this later). What used to be "work of the gods" are now scientifically demonstrated. These scientific findings are making their way into the social life of man as they have proven to be more reliable. Man is no more the figment of God's imagination but a sophisticated creature that has honed its intelligence through the many phases of evolution. Some religious thoughts infact subscribe to this concept of evolution though godified it, lest they should incur the wrath of the ancient religious heads. The god fearing religious thoughts only doused this ember of scientific reasoning.

So can we conclude anything.....hold on not so fast. What has taken ages of debate cannot be concluded so easily....for there is a bit of truth in both the schools of thought, of course one based on belief and the other based on reasoning.

What i will venture into in this blog is to put forth some of my thoughts ... which probably should help us to get to some understanding about Life. By the way i dont have any presumptions or preconclusions...lets us discuss and see for our selves where we are heading.