Chaos and Order

Our life doesn't always unfold as per our plans. There are always some unknown events that show up in our life and throws our life into chaos. What I mean by chaos is when these events show up in our life, we are under pressure/tension, we are scattered, we don't know what to do, what choices to make, don't know how these events would turnout. Chaos can come in the form of unexpected health issue, unexpected turn of events in our work or in our relationships, unexpected demands from life and this list can go long. Leaving aside our personal life, if we observe what is going on in the world around us today - natural calamities, financial crisis, fuel crisis, food crisis, environment crisis, poverty, social injustice, wars, terrorism etc... it may appear that we are living in times of chaos and suffering.

And the other side of chaos is order. If you are reading and making sense of this message, it presumes a certain sense of order in your life. Order exists in creation, as much as chaos. An event of fatal thunderstorm or tsunami or flood appears to be chaotic and random and yet the same nature follows order bringing day and night, cycles of seasons. Our earth rotates on its axis bringing day and night. Earth goes around sun bringing four seasons. Sun brings light and energy to our planet. Moon goes around earth in lunar cycle influencing life on earth. Gravity and other natural forces holds the planets together.

When we were conceived, we were only a single cell - fusion of sperm and egg. Yet the same single cell develops into a full blown human body following a certain order. Our lives actually unfolds because of certain order in creation. Food for our body is given to us, in the form of plants, natural elements and ecosystem. We are blessed with mind and senses to experience joy and sorrow of this life. We are also blessed with intelligence to make sense of this world, to be creative, to choose differently. All this body, mind and intellect, capacity to will, capacity to know, capacity to act is given to us following a certain order.

Our lives may seem to be chaotic at times, but everything that unfolds in our life is in order. Everything that happens in our life is following a certain order. No event is an accident in our lives. According to yoga scriptures, everything that unfolds in our lives is based on our choices. All our past choices unfold consequences in the present. We may never know what choices we made in the past to produce our present, but we are blessed with the capacity to choose differently and learn from these events. Instead of resisting or resenting the present, we can accept the present and be creative to influence a better present or future

Chaos and Order exists simultaneously. Chaos and order both are necessary for our growth. Order is necessary so we can taste the beauty and joy of life. If our life is stable for ever we can become complacent and stagnant. So chaos is also necessary to wake us from the deep slumber of our delusions and make us grow.

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Venkatesh Anandasayanam is a Chopra Center Educator, trained and credentialed by Dr. Deepak Chopra M.D to teach Primordial Sound Meditation, Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga and Perfect Health programs. . He has been offering Yoga, Meditation and Ayurvedic classs and workshops for nearly 8 years in Peoria, IL, USA. He raises funds for a non-profit organization Aim for Seva - that supports childrens in rural areas of India (http://www.aimforseva.org/) and Chaitanya Educational Foundation (http://www.cefoundation.org/) - a non-profit school in Banglore, India that trains and supports mentally disabled children.