The Pieces of the Puzzle

Life is a puzzle, just like love. There are so many pieces that are needed to complete the picture. Thank you Akshay for being a piece of our lives for ten years. Our lives are incomplete without you. You would have been eighteen today in your Earth life.

The Other Side of Pain

How do we get on the other side of pain? I came across this very visceral description of grief by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.She says, "Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with love.” Grief happens upon you, it’s bigger than you. There is a humility that you have to step into, where you surrender to being moved through the landscape of grief by grief itself. And it has its own time frame, it has its own itinerary with you, it has its own power over you, and it will come when it comes. And when it comes, it’s a bow-down. It’s a carve-out. And it comes when it wants to, and it carves you out — it comes in the middle of the night, comes in the middle of the day, comes in the middle of a meeting, comes in the middle of a meal. It arrives — it’s this tremendously forceful arrival and it cannot be resisted without you suffering more… The posture that you take is you hit your knees in absolute humility and you let it rock you until it is done with you. And it will be done with you, eventually. And when it is done, it will leave. But to stiffen, to resist, and to fight it is to hurt yourself.

Cosmic Zen

Akshay is now six years old in his spiritual home. He must be enjoying his outer space explorations. Busy learning all the heavenly lessons by heart. Playing other worldly games. A world devoid of the drama of human life. Experts say, the human soul travels on and through many different planes and dimensions of existence between the period of death and rebirth. Some of these planes and dimensions are in our present universe(Viswa Brahmand) and some are in other universes. Although this fact is mentioned in some of the Indian Tantra astrology literature, and 18 Puranas, Western scientists have only recently found the mathematical evidence of multiverse – multiple universes. It is said that the human soul’s last station is the moon, before it enters the plane of the Earth for rebirth. The plane of the moon is the place for accumulation of all souls, who are ready to reenter the earth for a new birth. No wonder it is said that the Vimottari dasha system based on the moon’s nakshtra at birth is one of the finest predictive tools. Once on earth and after many intermediate phases, the souls select the father and mother with whom maximum rinaanubandhana or karmic debt exists to be born as the child.

Long Distance Love

March 21 - the day Akshay joined his Earth Family sixteen years back and left quite suddenly six years back. We have often felt as if he is around us in a tingling feeling, in a flash of light, in that heartache or in that wispy white cloud. While it is perfectly normal to believe that our grief is giving wings to our imagination, quantum science research says that entangled particles remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, even when they are separated by great distances. Albert Einstein is known to have called this quantum entanglement spooky action at a distance. This means, long after our loved one are physically gone, their spirit and our hearts are inextricably entangled. Just as they have a special place in our hearts, we too have special place in theirs.

Enduring and Eternal

"Fire cannot burn me. Water cannot wet me, Wind cannot wither me. Weapons cannot cut me. For I am the Soul enduring and everlasting. I do not come into being and do not cease to exist," Lord Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhaghvad Gita, Chapter 2 Verse 23. With this thought we mark the fifth year without Akshay.

A Message from Heaven

If Akshay were to speak to us, this is what he would say: 

As I sit in Heaven and watch you every day, I try to let you know with signs that I never went away. I hear you when you are laughing and watch you as you sleep. I even put my arms around you, to calm you as you weep. I see you wish the days away, begging to have me home. So I try to send you signs, to let you know you are not alone. Don’t feel guilty that you have a life that was denied to me. Heaven is truly beautiful, just you wait and see. So live your life and laugh again, enjoy yourself and be free Then I’ll know that with every breath you take, you will be taking one for me.- Anonymous

Come, fly with me

Albert Einstein has said," Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one." Quantum physics as a subject was in its early days when the world started questioning the nature of reality. But we as Indians have been familiar with this concept since Vedic days. There is one Mahavakya or fundamental truth of Advaita Vedanta - Brahman Satyam, Jagat Mithya. which means, this world is an illusion, or Maya and the truth lies beyond the reality of atoms, protons, electrons. It exists in the form of vibrations or waves, the quantum physicists say. Socrates too had said a similar thing about the body being a separate entity. The soul is separate from the body and is energy form. Until Isaac Newton came along and gave the laws of physics to the world and forced mankind to identify itself with only the physical world. But you cannot keep down true knowledge no matter how abstract it is. And thankfully physicists made progress and admitted the possibility of many worlds and existence of souls or energy forms in these many worlds, albeit in different forms. But why am I getting into all this; because quantum physics says that Quantum entanglement is love at a sub atomic level. Even though two objects are separated by light years there will still be a strong attraction between them. Which easily explains in scientific terms the reasons for rebirth and that complex concept called Karma. In other words, there are worlds unknown to us where our loved ones live after ceasing to exist in this world;and there is a strong chance that we shall meet again. Science says so.