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Synchronicity - the Language of God

I tried to start this chapter a few days ago, but I couldn't because my flow of creativity just stopped. However, today I slept in the late evening, woke up at 10 pm, and by the time I'd finished doing Pooja and reciting my seven Hanuman Chalisas, I knew that I finally had the inspiration and the creative flow to sit down and write this chapter. The moment I had that thought I looked at the clock and the time was exactly 11. 11 Pm. 1111, 555, 333, 222, 777, 1234. If you're like me, then you've definitely seen these numbers and themes in various places. Repetitive numbers, mysterious coincidences, relevant songs playing on the radio that give us messages, getting to the right place at the right time, getting intuitive nudges and a feeling that the circumstances in life have somehow got meaning. All these things are known as synchronicities. The word 'Synchronicity' was first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection". However, throughout his work, he gave out several new and interesting definitions of the concept but my personal favourite is "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved".

Let's examine that. If man lives in a fragmented way, without any sense of conscious connection with the divine, all the events in one's life may appear extremely random or without any connection. For many years when I lived like this, in years of depression there seemed to be no meaning in what I was doing, I had no sense of direction and the synchronicities, or my ability to notice them stopped. However, when this connection is found, either through an awakening or direct contact with the divine infinite, or in my case by the grace of the Guru, a thin metaphysical fabric of meaning and purpose starts to build itself. Now in my favourite definition of the statement, what catches my attention is the "something other than the probability of chance". For a mathematician or a stubborn atheist, it's very hard to imagine that there could be 'something other than the probability of chance'. A lot of things are labelled either as 'plain co-incidences' or in the other extreme if one finds too many coincidences, they are labelled as 'delusional conspiracy theorists'. The truth is of course a delicate balance of all of the above.

In my experience, synchronicity is practically the language of God. God is formless, and transcends the physical plane, but in order to speak with us, and show us the way, these meaningful coincidences and mysterious circumstances that seem to 'speak to us' present themselves. With Maharajji there are no co-coincidences. Just a web of Lila.

Jung further explains that there are three categories of synchronistic phenomena.

  • A meaningful correspondence between a mental state and a simultaneous physical event
  • A meaningful correspondence between a mental state and a physical event outside the individual's perception
  • A meaningful correspondence between the mental state and some future event

In my experiences with Maharajji, the degree and the number of synchronicities of all three kinds are simply too many to take for granted. Other than the numerical, earth plane and the dream plane synchronicities, the highest number of these coincidences somehow involve the deity Hanuman. Like I said, Maharajji and Hanuman are one. Maharajji being the human front and Hanuman being the mythical divine and symbolic front in this context. This is another way in which Maharajji Speaks, through Synchronicity. Let me recall a few of these from my life experience:

  • To keep things fresh I want to start with something that just happened now. In my incense holder there's spaces for 8 sticks of incense, as I was taking out the incense sticks i took out a random number which happened to be 5 immediately, I bumped my elbow and exactly 3 more sticks came out of the box which had many, filling my incense holder with 8 sticks.
  • After I returned from Kainchi, I started to smoke cigarettes again after many months of not smoking. The day after I started smoking, I woke up in the morning craving a very specific turmeric pav bhaji (a local dish of Goa) which was only being served in a very small restaurant on the roadside which I usually never go to. As soon as I entered this place, the first thing I saw was a huge 'no smoking' sign literally plastered between a picture of Hanuman and Ram. As soon I saw that I knew that this was Maharajji telling me to stop smoking. After this I experienced many 'signals' from the universe that I shouldn't smoke. Once I was smoking near the Pooja table and the cigarette fell from my hand and landed on the 'divine reality' book and made a mark exactly at the place where Maharajji's hands and feet meet. The mark exists till this day. Despite the signals, I couldn't quit smoking when I was in Goa but I quit now in Bangalore two months ago.
  • As I've mentioned in the beginning of the book, I happened to 'synchronistically' meet a wonderful baba named Hanuman Das who has the same experience of having a monkey climb his right shoulder and stay there for a while and give him Ashirwad (blessing).
  • I had the thought of owning a necklace of Rudraksha beads when I was in the birth temple of Hanuman and on the same day I found one literally hanging on a branch on the trek to the temple as if it was waiting for me.
  • When I was in the taxi on my way to the bus station with the intention of going to the birthplace of Hanuman, I saw three number plates of vehicles one after the other, the numbers were 777, 888 and 999 consecutively.
  • The information about the birthplace of Hanuman came from a food vendor who just 'happened' to notice my hanuman necklace and told me stories of this mountain just in time so that I could visit and return before the whole country went into lockdown
  • The phone numbers of both my main contacts who are devotees of Maharajji in Kainchi Dham and Vrindavan have 111 in them.

These are just a few examples of the universe of synchronicities that take place between me and Maharajji. Every day every moment is a different synchronicity. What I have noticed is that in places where my mind can be quiet like in nature or in pilgrimage spots, are where I can notice them most. However, when I get stuck in cities and immerse myself in television or cartoons, I fail to notice the subtle synchronicities.

One of the main factors of this language of the Gods is that it's VERY PERSONAL. Each person will see things and those things he or she sees speak only to them. For example, the number 777 is very important to my uncle who left his body recently. He was a devotee of Shanidev (Saturn) whose number is 7 and used 777 to lock his suitcases and his lockers etc. every time I feel this number near me, I sense his presence. The number 111 or 11.11 feels like I see them in 'moments of power' or 'divine grace'. When I see 333 it's symbolic of the angelic realm and also reminds me of the Jeremiah verse from the New Testament "Call to me, and I will answer to you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know". Well, Maharajji is my equivalent of Jesus, so when I see this it feels like he's asking me to communicate with him. The number 555 I see as a grand omen of God, and divinity and that I'm doing the right things. 666 makes me feel strange because of its association with the devil, although in certain schools of thought it is meant to be a representation of material abundance. However, when I see 11.12, or 3.34 or 5.56, it gives me the indication that I'm not doing something right and that I'm not in alignment with my higher purpose. This is just my personal experience.

Even though I could go on and on about these concepts, I'd to keep it short and say that if we expand our perspectives, we can see that God, or Guru or our higher Self, exists beyond the linear understanding of time and space, and to give us nudges or signals into this present space-time continuum to make better choices or tell us that we're on track. Either we need to be great meditators or extremely paranoid and obsessive-compulsive to catch all of these.

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