Manifesting seems to be a buzz word at the moment. Everywhere you look, there is another new age coach teaching a course on how to “manifest.” I am a believer that what we place our attention on grows and that our minds are extremely powerful. I believe our minds are powerful enough to ultimately get whatever we desire. I am challenging the way we view the concept of where our desires derive. In the West, we think we, as individual people, are deciding what we want and then asking the Universe. We believe we are the source of creation telling the Universe what is best for us as individuals. From the Vedic perspective, there is only one thing, so we are not only our individual selves but also the Universe. The truth of what we really are is the source of everything and everyone. Just like a wave on the ocean, each individual is like a wave swelling from the entire ocean. We are wave, small self, and we are also ocean, big Self. So when we get desires, our desires are coming from Nature’s Intelligence, big Self. These desires move us into the direction of evolution for small self and evolution for big Self, for creation as a whole.
We are given desires to move us from point A to point B and to give us different experiences so that evolution can take place. It is our job to listen to the desires and act upon them. It is also our job not to get attached to specific timings or outcomes. For example; you have the desire for ice cream so you drive to the local ice cream shop (maybe John’s Drive-In, my favorite!) however John’s Drive-In is closed so now you have to pivot. You decide to go to the grocery store to buy the ice cream and when you are at the grocery store you run into an old friend who invites you to a party where you meet your future partner. By the time you arrive at the party, you completely forget about your desire for ice cream and are very content eating cake instead. Ultimately your desire for ice cream is what led you to your partner. Big Self, or Nature’s Intelligence, sourced that desire, which led you to John’s Drive-In, then to the grocery store at the perfect time for you to run into your old friend. We must trust that in the larger picture Nature’s Intelligence knows what it is doing by moving us from point A to point B and sometimes to point C, D, E and so on in the perfect moment. When you begin to experience these synchronicities, you begin to trust Nature’s Intelligence more and more. When we trust Nature’s Intelligence, perfectly sequenced experiences begin to happen on a more regular basis. Life begins to flow easily. We get into trouble when we think our individuality is running the show and when we think things do not go “our way” we get depressed, angry, fearful, etc. This is when we need to flip the perspective and rephrase what we think is “our way” and replace it with “that way”. If you begin to struggle or strain, it is Nature’s Intelligence saying, “Move in a different direction, go another way.”
To expand even further upon the manifestation process, the Veda also teaches us that fulfillment is not out there needing to be manifested. We are not the needy ones looking for fulfillment, we are fulfillment looking to go on an excursion. We need to surrender to the concept that fulfillment is our inner nature. Our job is to bring creative intelligence and fulfillment into contact with the need of the time. The need of the time is what causes desires to bubble up and those desires are to be acted upon to be “manifested.” Meditation allows you to experience the fulfillment within, so begin there and manifestation will occur naturally!
