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Is everything pre-ordained? If everything is Here and Now, why do we experience it in this drawn-out, linear fashion? What does it even mean, '...everything is Here and Now'?
We can find as many answers to the above as there are metaphysical books on the shelves at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore. The Veda is fairly specific, though. It all depends upon one's point of view.
From the point of view of individuality, there is space and time, birth and death, beginning and ending. We arrive here, learn what we learn, and move on. When we move a bit more in the direction of the transcendent, we begin to take on the knowledge that who we are is not this body; that what arrives and moves on is something ineffable that continues on, that was somewhere before here, and will be somewhere after being here; that this thing we are never dies, and is never really born. As Krishna says to Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita:
Weapons cannot cleave him, nor fire
burn him; water cannot wet him, nor
wind dry him away.
He is uncleavable; he cannot be burned;
he cannot be wetted, nor yet can he be
dried. He is eternal, all-pervading,
stable, immovable, ever the same.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's translation
of The Bhagavad Gita, Part I
Moving now into the transcendent and able to be aware of the individuality, as well as at the same time the unbounded, unmanifest, the true Seer may know, may actually be able to see, that all things, all phases, all lives are Here and Now. Consciousness merely moves from one level to another, from one point of view to another, in order to experience what is relevant to experience as it is relevant to be experienced.
And the Veda has an answer, as well, for the why of it all. The Veda says that we, Man, has come here and forgotten the truth of our being for one reason, and one reason only, and that is in order that we may experience the supreme joy of remembering our oneness. Reuniting with all the disparate expressions of Totality that are you and me and everything.
The experience of what we humans call love.
Today I will look at someone close to me and imagine how I might feel if that person were actually another me.
 Horse, Carpinteria, CA
All material copyright Jeff Kober
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