MAnvi’s thAthA saw a lot in thought MAnvi when he passed by her, outside his room.  It took her a few minutes to be aware that he was in the same space as her. So lost in thought was she!! The moment she saw him pass by, a question blurted out from her.

MAnvi: thAthA, did we know each other in a past life?

thAthA stopped and looked at her, in waiting, as he knew she will continue.

MAnvi: thAthA, I was talking to someone who told me that people come, go, stay  in our lives, in the life journey we are in now… Relationships get built that continues to grow stronger or breaks.. This depends on the relationship we have had with them in our earlier lives. If it was stopped abruptly, then it continues in this life, if it has to continue.

thAthA: Go on, MAnvi.

MAnvi: Which life it stopped and why in this life it continues and stops, we don’t know. It either stops because of a break in the relationship or because one of us has taken the last breath in this life. The timeline of the relationship has elapsed.

Brings to my thought

Sanchita karma – the bundle of all our karma (acions) done over the many lives of ours (in the assumption that we believe in punar jenma (rebirth).

AgAmi karma – the karma that we have done in the current life.

prArabdha Karma – the outcome of our past actions we need to experience in this life journey, that has come to fruition; and this fruition can happen in any of the rebirths we take. An outcome of an action that we have done, in any one of our earlier births. Some of the fruition can be from the actions we have done in our current life (I presume). We do an action and we experience the outcome of the action then and there or some days, weeks, months or years later, but in the current life; and we know which of our actions has derived this outcome.

You know what thAthA, who decides what outcome should come to fruition when – that’s my question and I know that’s a question that can yield different answers from different people. But that is not the topic of discussion.

thAthA: So you think that we have met in an earlier life / lives and that the relationship we had in that life / lives was stopped, because of a reason and it continues now?

MAnvi: Going by what this person who told me, I believe so. I am not curious to know what the relationship was and why it didn’t continue. I am very happy that it continues. You mean a lot to me, thAthA and though you don’t say it in words, I know I mean a lot to you too 🙂

thAthA couldn’t but smile at her words and her belief which had truth in it.

MAnvi: thAthA, what this person said has put together, pieces of the jigsaw puzzle in my mind.

thAthA: Can you explain what is on your mind, MAnvi?

MAnvi: thAthA, let me explain with some situations. There is more to this but this would help to understand.

Situation 1 – Z is born into a family and has a few siblings. Over the years relationship with the family is broken. They move apart and barely in contact. Is the duration for the relationship over and that causes the split? Timeline for the relationship has elapsed?

Situation 2 – L and K have been extremely good friends for many years. They had a strong relationship and one that was inspiring to many around them. One fine day, their relationship snapped. Both of them have been trying to make amends but hasn’t worked for them. They moved apart and barely connect with one another. Whatever had to grow stronger for whatever duration was completed, and time to move in different ways? They wanted to continue to make it work and they tried but.. Interesting isn’t it, thAthA – life says ‘let go’ but we want to ‘hold on’..

Situation 3 – Two individuals who meet each other at some age of their lives. It may be a Déjà vu at the moment of meeting for the first time and a strong connect established, it maybe a relationship that grows over the years and stays. Whichever way it is, it is a relationship that was meant to be in the current life?  Whether it continues in the next rebirth, time will tell and when it does, these two indivuals may not know, isn’t it? Or they may?

Situation 4 – P and Q know each other for many years and something didn’t connect between them. Situations pan out in their lives and a connect is established. It is neither a strong connect thereafter nor a weak one; but one that is neutral. From barely anything to something.. This relationship is to be the way it is, till the time for the relationship elapses?

thAthA: Interesting string of thoughts, MAnvi. How has this helped you as you said that certain pieces of the jigsaw puzzle has fallen in place?

MAnvi: thAthA: I am not thinking of the next rebirth because I don’t know what will happen. However, after I heard what the person I met told me, I have been thinking of the different relationships I have in my life and have had in my life.

Relationships that are broken, that’s their duration of my connect with them and vice versa.. Time to let them go..

Relationships that are neutral, if they have moved from nowhere to somewhere, let them be where they are. If it has to happen, life will move them to make them  closer. Till then, let them be where they are..

Relationships that have stayed, keep them going, nurture them to the best that I can.. That’s what is in my hands. They will stay as long as they need to stay..

thAthA, this has helped in a lot of thoughts to settle down and to be in peace with myself.

As you say, nothing is a co-incidence, isn’t it thAthA?