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My teacher, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was known to have said:
"When we investigate the invisible mechanics of nature, we find that everything in the universe is directly connected with everything else. Everything is constantly being influenced by everything else. No wave of the ocean is independent of any other."
And in the texts of Ayur-Veda, the ancient system of natural medicine, it is said:
As is the atom, so is the universe
As is the human body, so is the cosmic body
As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm
Thus, when I look at my apparently physical body, I see that most of its activities go on without my conscious involvement. Yet, in spite of this, there is an intelligence at work which insures that every part is perfectly coordinated with every other part.
I also see that there never seems to be an accident or a mistake within this body. Thanks to the investigations of modern physiology I see that activities within this apparent body always occur in a very structured and orderly way.
There is one important difference between this physical body and "my" cosmic body, which encompasses all of the manifest creation. With the physical body there appears to be an inside and an outside. It appears that I ingest food or drink or other things from "outside" and then the body reacts to those things in definable ways.
However, there is no "outside" of the cosmic body. There is only the innate intelligence of consciousness which gives life and direction to this cosmic body. Whereas "my" apparent physical body gains sustenance from the food and drink which I ingest, "my" cosmic body gains sustenance from the consciousness from which it springs, of which it is made and which completely permeates every part of it.
Maharishi used to talk about it as being like the sap in a tree. The sap transforms to become the roots, the trunk, the bark, the leaves, the flower and the fruit of the tree. Yet, if one breaks open any of these, one will find the sap there. The sap is ever present, even as it morphs to become the various aspects of the tree.
In a similar way, all of creation is formed from consciousness, and wherever one looks, into whatever part of creation one investigates, one still finds order, intelligence, the organizing structure of consciousness present there.
All this leads me to conclude that there is no experience in my life which is random, accidental or a mistake. Each experience is myself, unfolding my Self to my self. With each new experience I have the chance to know myself more fully, discover my own nature more completely.
Each person I meet, each situation or circumstance in which I find myself is all me. It's all the perfect interplay of "my" intelligence interacting with itself to know itself, to revel in itself.
Unhappiness or suffering is only possible when I hold on to one part to the exclusion of another part. When I try to hold on to this body or this way of living or this experience or this relationship, and try to convince my self that the way it is, is better, only then do I suffer.
When I know every new experience, every new person, every new situation, every new circustance as my self coming to meet me, to greet me and to show me more fully the beauty and glory of who and what I am, then there is only joy.
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