An Indelible Meeting

A deep rooted experience visited when recently I met some friends, some old some new. Every time I saw that our original connection was not merely at the level of the personality. It was at the level of the soul. And I believe that once you have truly met another that deeply, it’s a connection that lasts for eternity. 

Most of our relationships are not that deep, even if they may appear to be. For example, we may say we love our blood relatives, but still not necessarily be bonded at the level of the soul. We only meet when there is at weddings, birthdays, and funerals. We can share a lot of history with other human beings and still not be connected at the deepest level. We have  neighbours, friends from every time period with whom we've shared passion and profound trust and the sense of a connection that at least felt as if nothing could be deeper—and then, for one reason or another, drift apart. Then, if we meet these all people years later, we may have the strange and sometimes disturbing sensation of there being literally no connection any more.

How can such a thing be? How can we love someone so deeply and then find that love and connection to be gone, nowhere to be found? I believe it’s because the connection wasn't at the level of the soul.

Soul connections are eternal. Every other relationship we have, no matter how sweet, kind, intimate, or apparently meaningful, will in the end be revealed to be only temporary. This is a very strong statement and this truth can be hard to bear, especially when we experience this in relationship to people we have felt very, very close to. It’s only when we meet another in the mutual recognition of life’s ultimate mystery, the search of the evolutionary impulse that’s when we experience a connection that is forever.

Spiritual process begins only when you are confronted with death- either your own one or that of someone who is dear to you, someone you thought you could never live without. My spiritual journey started a bit early when I was only 1.5 years old. Life unfolded to its fullest now and then. The spiritual growth has been catalysed by my gurus. I owe everything to them. The connection with each one of them is something that my words are inapt to comprehend. Our connection has been eternal. Whenever I needed them they were there in different forms to pick me up.  From the perspective of that mysterious domain beyond the mind and beyond time, our differences seemed superficial, irrelevant, and relative. How free from history is our heart connection, how rooted in the infinite is our bond.

The one new friend that I've recently connected with was not merely a friend. There was a deeper bond and it felt like I have been waiting for so many years in search of this very friend. Life and the passing of time had brought us together. In that coming together, the immediacy of our bond was surprisingly palpable and apparent. I haven’t seen one such bonding in many years, and within seconds of connecting, it was like no time had passed. Our mutual love, admiration, and respect for each other seemed to be something admirable. Once you really connect at the deepest level, the level of the soul, it’s forever.

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