Awakening - The Universe

An awakening took place in me one day. Strange but true all of a sudden I felt that all these while, I have been thinking backwards ! It may sound ridiculous but yes, all these while earlier, my outlook to life had been like, okay, you are born, this is your karma and you have to go on living whether you like it or not. I felt that I had no choice but to accept the so called fate.

At the same time I am faced with so much of suffering everywhere around me and I cannot do anything about it. Then my burning and constant question became, "Why this creation? Why do one need to be born, to go through all these pain and suffering ? Would'nt it be better if this whole thing did not happen ? Is the creator a sadist, enjoying watching the suffering of the people ?

One day all of a sudden like a paradigm shift, something just became clear in my head. My perspective changed abruptly in a split of a second. Strange but true, I realized that this world, that these relationships that I have been given and everything that I see around me, have been given to me to enjoy and to be appreciated.

I have been given this gift of life. I am a special being, like each and every one of us on this earth. I have come here not to suffer, but to feel the joy and abundance of life. Everything that I see around has been placed for me to enjoy. Every human is a creation out of love by the creator and has come here to feel the joy, happiness and abundance of the universe.

I have been walking along with a screwed up vision of life until then! Now the burden was no more there. I felt as though the weight had been lifted from my back. I need not hunch any more, therefore I can start walking upright and this felt light and free !

Today I read a poem by Rumi, and here I found that he spoke of the sleep and the awakening. Yes awakening to my true reality. I can imagine myself as the embryo denying the reality of the Universe.

Rumi's poetry is so widely appreciated because it has the capacity to uplift our own consciouness. Reading the words of Rumi can awaken in ourselves, our own spiritual self.


The Universe

What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.

The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”