Many Lives, Many Connections…

The horse came close to him almost like he had known him for a long time… A previous master maybe, from a previous lifetime.
The horse nuzzled him, and waited for more love. But he gently moved the horse away after a brief embrace.
When he came out of it he said, ‘How did he know I love horses?’
I said, ‘Animals can sense emotion and feeling too, sometimes even a past connection...’
Isn’t this true of many of our relationships… We don’t know what attracts us to another person, brings us together, and sometimes moves us apart too.
I was recently on a trip to Kailash Manasarovar, a pilgrimage of sorts, with 70+ people — most of us strangers up to that point, meeting for the first time in an unknown land.
We had all come together for a common purpose…and that probably kept us bound in a unique way.
But the camaraderie went beyond that… We took care of our roommates, felt responsible for their well-being, and each did what they could to aid the other’s spiritual progression.
By the end of 14 days, none of us wanted to part… We kept saying bye and hugging each other till the last moment.
Several days later, the group chat on WhatsApp is still alive with conversations of longing — mostly for the mountain — but subconsciously for the great feeling of togetherness…
For the ability to put our egos aside, and make the journey as uplifting as possible for the other.
A spiritual quest may have brought us all together, but something else created a much stronger bond than we ever imagined…
An invisible thread — perhaps a past connection, from a previous lifetime…perhaps the opportunity to wash away past karma or create new positive karma.
Through this process we all grew… We shed a bit of ourselves, we made room for the other, we embraced our shortcomings, and offered all the goodness we had inside us.
Petty worries were kept aside… Inconveniences, like the lack of a good bathroom while traveling through remote areas, were glossed over in collective laughter and good cheer.
The bigger purpose was the only thing in focus, and knowing that each one of us had to see the great Mount Kailash in good health was the single point on the agenda.
During the journey we were also witness to new vistas of surprising scale and beauty… All visions of magnanimity and peace, bringing us together in a sense of wonder and awe for the universe.
Unexpected close encounters like these make life both mysterious and beautiful. The ability to touch and get touched by connections, unknown to us, probably brings out the maximum hope in all beings...
Whether it was the horse who recognised the animal lover, or a group of people brought together by a common mission, we live in the hope that something beyond our mundane lives will propel us into becoming more compassionate and receptive beings.
It’s an age where union is all we seek… Not war, not acquisition, not dominion over another…
But the ability to cooperate and co-exist…to create a beautiful world, one in which, no matter how many times we encounter the other, the meeting is always one of love and devotion…
Devotion to the oneness we all want to experience — The oneness of man with man, of man with nature, and finally of man with a greater being, an embodiment of inclusiveness and nothingness…where all lifetimes merge into moments of realisation and union.
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