Our bodies are subject to sickness and death from various diseases and accidents, and decay, as do all physical things. This is not by the directive of some deity that rewards, punishes, or bestows favor for prayer, and not necessarily ‘bad karma’, although balancing karma can certainly be involved. All physical things are subject to deterioration and the laws of nature in this phenomenal world.
Still, most of the significant illnesses, injuries, important people and many other situations in our lives have been seen to have been pre-arranged and agreed upon in the causal (soul) realm. Extensive hypnotic life-between-life work has documented this as a layer of the reality for decades. These often difficult situations are designed to strengthen the character of our souls, of which we as a human being are but one emanation of. See the book ‘Journey of Souls’ by Michael Newton, PhD, for more on this; it works best as an audiobook.
From the highest perspective, The Self, the eternal conscious awareness which inhabits our vehicles as they move through the infinite eternity of the present, is unconcerned about the fate of our body. The Self was never born, neither will it die. The Self inhabits everything; it is the transcendental movie screen that all is projected upon. The Self knows this. Our small, illusory individuated egos do not.
Therefore, we find the often seemingly random fate of our health and mortal bodies perplexing. From birth, we invariably identify ourselves with our body, and thus place an almost mystical importance upon it, but we are not our bodies. We are also not our thoughts, our beliefs, or even who we think we are – our egos or personalities. So, if none of these, what and who are we?
We are the transcendental immortal conscious awareness known as the Self, or ‘Atman’ in Sanskrit; the name for that part of the Divine which inhabits us and of which we are a homogeneous part of. The Divine Spirit that is our essence is the same Divine Essence that inhabits all things, from the atoms of earthly dust to the far-flung stars, from our transmigrating souls to the causal dimensions that dwarf the entire physical cosmos.
Within the true immensity of our essence, our seemingly individual lives and even souls are like waves upon a cosmic ocean…waves that briefly arise and then settle back again, and the ocean and the waves are made of the same water – the Self.
One can only begin to taste the infinitude of the creation when one dives into the Fathomless Ocean of the Self, upon which our individual ego/body structure is merely an artifact of illusion, a wave found temporarily rising and settling. Yet the human heart contains a drop of this cosmic water, and the drop contains the Ocean.
A grain of sand on the infinite beach of Shiva / Shakti is this earth and even the physical universe. And we are all of it.
Open the inner corridors, to drink the water that the Sages and Maha ~ Rishis have tasted, flowing from the spring of Oneness, and you shall never thirst again.
Write upon the scroll of your eternal life with the pen of your soul, dipped into the fathomless inkwell of the Ageless Wisdom, Wisdom of the Self which has no beginning and no end, the Absolute Unchanging Reality.
© Andrew M. Williams