By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas
I just got over a tenacious colds. If getting sick were necessary for development or evolution, then it is efficient to get sick while on a Christmas break.
I have a lawyer friend who has some abnormalities. Relating to him my early childhood, I said, I was always being rushed to the clinic. As I got bigger, I got better. In college, I got into the Ananda Marga yoga group and things got a lot better.
I also discovered its socio-economic and political ideology which for me is the most profound and comprehensive by far. Meditation and spiritualilty is even a part of the mix to take care of man’s be-all and end-all and to assure the best kind of governance possible. For scientific validation, I shifted my college course and majored in economics and political science.
Anyway, looking at my friend’s distorted appearance, I said, if we were so bad in our past lives, why were we able to become lawyers? Or was that the reason we became so? Were we in positions of authority and abused our power?
Someone told me about past life regression but I guess I was not brave enough to go through it. How will it help me if I found out I was a murderer or rapist in the past?
How will it help anybody if his wife turned out to be his husband before– that is, their sexes and roles were the reverse?
Well, that might be the reason why the eyes are in front. To look forward and not dwell on what happened.
Some other people, however, are different. They are pre-occupied about seeing their future. They would always be seeking for clairvoyants. As one of our yoga teachers once said, so how will it help you if the clairvoyant sees one of your legs would be cut off?
An astrologer can readily see difficult or lucky stages in one’s life or whether or not a person is generally lucky. His share of misfortune can also be readily spotted– everybody has some. But the devil is in the details whose end-results in a person’s life cannot be seen as these will all depend on how innumerable factors will play out. Certainly those who are concentrating on their misfortune instead of doing something about it will surely be magnets of bad luck.
On the whole though, as I learned in AnandaMarga yoga, LIFE IS NOT A PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED. IT IS A MYSTERY TO BE LIVED. So let us go forth with a positive attitude (remember the principle of self-fulfilling prophecy?) and discover how good life can be.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE. **
