I have been going through a tough time, for many years you could say, and lately, it feels like the tough times have gone on steroids. Within one month, I was in a car accident, I fired my lawyer, and found a new one to support my ongoing brutal divorce battle that has been going on for over a year and a half now. I am figuring out how to buy a replacement car, since the old one was totaled from the accident. I went on a vacation with my children on my own for the first time in ever. I found a new place to live only to find it flooded on the day of the move-in. I had to quickly find another place before the lease on the current one ended. In between, there is a little thing called life in the form of work, bills, children’s school, activities, and dealing with insurance, physical therapy and bills from the medical expenses from the accident. I was afraid to think positively fearing that if I said, “it could be worse”, then it would get worse. But when I was feeling overwhelmed, a YouTube video was auto-suggested to me, and the channel was called “The Abundance”. So naturally I clicked on it, here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcACo6pcomY
I am not a proponent of the mystical or esoteric, although I’d like to think that there is something that is greater than the human mind that governs all life on earth. Please do not believe in anything that goes against your critical thinking and gut instinct. I wanted to add this to my blog posts, since it brought some sense of peace and clarity to my sufferings. It gave me an alternative way of thinking that could help me think and perceive things a little different. And maybe change the course of my life by changing my patterns, my emotional habits and my perceptions. I hope I am delivering the contents of the video here without butchering its essence. So, here is what I learned from the video, if it brings even a momentary peace for someone out there, it would make me happy.
Part One: The Primordial Vibration
In the beginning, there was movement. Not the Brownian motion of matter colliding with matter, but the subtle, ineffable shimmer of pure potential, the first breath of creation itself. The Hermetic philosophers understood this as the fundamental truth that everything vibrates. Nothing rests. Nothing is still. The very fabric of existence hums with an eternal frequency that precedes form, sound, and light.
This begs the question, what is the source of this cosmic vibration? The ancient Egyptians, gazing upon the golden orb that painted their deserts with life-giving radiance, called it Ra, the sun god, the heart of creation, the eye that sees all. Across the vast oceans of time and culture, the Indian sages turned their faces eastward at dawn and whispered the name Surya, the divine illuminator, the charioteer of light who pulls consciousness from the darkness of unknowing into the brilliance of awareness.
Here lies the first teaching that is simple yet profound: the sun is the source of all vibration and energy. And so, for millennia, seekers have planted their feet firmly upon the earth looking to feel grounded, connected, and hence gazed directly into the morning sun. Not with fear, but with reverence. Not with resistance, but with receptivity. For ten minutes at dawn, they stood as living antennas between heaven and earth, allowing the primordial vibration to recalibrate their very cells, to remind their souls of their origin, to align their personal rhythm with the cosmic pulse. This is where the journey begins, with the understanding that we are not separate from the vibration, but rather as active participants in it. We are not passive recipients of some distant energy, but active co-creators in a symphony that has been playing since before time was measured.
Part Two: The Architecture of Consequence
If everything vibrates, then everything also echoes. Every vibration creates a ripple, and every ripple returns to its source. This is the law of cause and effect, the great cosmic accountant that the sages of India called Karma. But let us be clear, for this is where most misunderstand: karma is not punishment. It is not the angry fist of a vengeful deity striking down the wicked. No, karma is something far more elegant, far more compassionate. Karma is education. Karma is the universe’s way of teaching us what we need to learn, not through cruelty, but through the gentle (and sometimes not-so-gentle) repetition of experience until the lesson is finally understood.
The Eastern traditions divided this great teaching into three streams, each flowing from the same source but serving a different purpose:
Sanchita karma is the accumulated wisdom (or folly) of all our past actions, it is the vast reservoir of consequence that we carry with us from lifetime to lifetime. It is the library of our soul’s history, every book we’ve written, and every page we’ve turned.
Prarabdha karma is what has been activated for this particular incarnation, the specific threads selected for resolution, the curriculum for this semester of the soul’s eternal education. These are the main themes of your life, like the relationships you’ll enter, the challenges you’ll face, and the gifts you’ll discover.
Agami karma is the new karma we generate with every choice, every action, and every breath. It is like the clay of our future, which is shaped by the hands of our present.
And here is where the mystery deepens, where the Hermetic principle of correspondence, “as above, so below” reveals its power. Karma is apparently not a straight line but a spiral. Specific threads set in motion lifetimes earlier continue to weave through our existence, seeking consciousness to close them. These are the open loops of our soul’s journey, patiently awaiting our awareness to bring them to completion.
Part Three: The Intelligence of Time
Now we arrive at one of the most beautiful paradoxes of existence: time itself. The Western mind, which is so enamored with clocks and calendars, has convinced itself that time is linear, a straight line from past to future, from birth to death, from cause to effect. The Greeks called this Kronos, which is the relentless march of seconds that devours everything in its path.
But there is another time, a deeper time, a time that breathes with intelligence and purpose. This is Kyros, the appointed hour, the moment that arrives exactly when it is needed: not a moment too soon, not a moment too late. This is the time of soul evolution, the time of divine appointments, the time when the universe conspires to bring you exactly what you need, often through the intersection of lives and timelines that seem, from the outside, to be only just a mere coincidence.
The ancient Indians understood this as Ritu: the right season. There is a time for planting and a time for harvesting, a time for beginning and a time for ending, a time for struggle and a time for surrender. When you release your grip on how and when outcomes should manifest, when you trust the intelligence of time itself, you enter a state of effortless alignment. This is the state the Chinese sages called Wu Wei, which roughly translates to action in perfect harmony with the universe’s timing.
And what does this harmony feel like? It feels like flow. That sweet spot where challenge meets skill, where the difficulty is neither too great nor too small, where time seems to dissolve and you become one with the action itself. The philosopher Csikszentmihalyi called this the optimal experience. The Buddhists called it the one-pointedness of mind, where happiness emerges not from external achievement but from complete absorption in the present moment.
In this state, time hastens. Hours pass like minutes. The sense of separation between self and action, between past and future, between cause and effect, all of it dissolves. This is the evidence of divine timing, the proof that when we align with the cosmic flow, we become part of something far greater than our individual ambitions.
Part Four: The Sacred Agreements
If karma is the curriculum and time is the classroom, then what are the relationships that populate this educational journey? The answer lies in the profound concept of soul contracts. The soul contracts are agreements made before birth, with full awareness, out of mutual spiritual love, to show up in each other’s lives at specific times for specific purposes.
These are not casual arrangements. They are the very architecture of your life’s most significant relationships. The souls you encounter: the mentor who guided you, the friend who supported you, the lover who broke your heart, the parent who challenged you, these are not random participants in your story. They are members of your soul group, clusters of consciousness entering lifetimes together, offering each other new angles for karmic resolution.
The contracts fall into three categories:
Contracts of growth are the positive relationships, the ones that lift us up, that guide us toward our potential. These are the mentors, the teachers, the friends who appear at just the right moment to encourage us along our path.
Contracts of resolution are the difficult ones, the deeply complex relationships that test us at our core. A tumultuous romance, a challenging parent, a professional rival who seems to trigger every insecurity you possess. These relationships hurt, yes, but they also heal. They force us to confront the patterns we’ve been avoiding, to develop the strengths we’ve been denying.
Contracts of service are the relationships through which we offer ourselves to others. The healer and the patient, the teacher and the student, the guide and the seeker. These contracts remind us that evolution is not merely personal but rather a collective endeavor, that we grow not in isolation but in service to one another. Each contract has its completion point. The relationship, no matter how significant, will eventually fulfill its purpose. When it does, we must not resist the natural completion. Loss is not failure; it is fulfillment of a higher purpose, a testament to the soul’s journey toward wholeness.
Part Five: The Dance of Destiny and Free Will
And now we arrive at the question that has haunted humanity since consciousness first became aware of itself: if so much is predetermined, if the contracts are signed and the karma is set, then what is left for me to choose?
This is where we must hold two truths simultaneously, allowing the contradiction to illuminate rather than confuse. The soul’s blueprint is real. What the Indians called Niyati, are the fixed coordinates of our journey. It will manifest in some form regardless of the specific choices we make. The breakthroughs will come, the losses will occur, and the encounters with certain souls are inevitable. But what is not fixed is how we meet these experiences. Here, in the space between the “coordinates”, lies the profound power of free will.
Think of it this way: a river is born from a mountain spring and flows into the ocean. Its origin and destination are fixed, these are the coordinates of its existence. But the path the river carves between these two points is its own creation. It negotiates with every rock and crevice, finds the path of least resistance, carves canyons, nourishes valleys, and shapes mountains. The river’s journey is uniquely its own, even though its beginning and end are determined. This path is your life that you carve using the coordinates that you were dealt at birth. Your parents, your birth country, the era in which you were born, your ethnicity, all that are your coordinates. Your life path that is your free will. Your soul originates from the infinite and returns to the infinite. The points between the relationships, the challenges, and the gifts are the fixed stars of your journey. The path you carve, the quality of awareness you bring, the vibrational frequency with which you meet each experience, that is your creation.
The ancient sages described three categories of karmic experience:
Drida Karma is fixed karma, immovable as stone. These are the events that must occur, the encounters that are inevitable.
Adrida Karma is fluid karma, hovering at the edge of possibilities. These experiences may or may not manifest, depending on the choices we make.
Drida-Adrida Karma is mixed karma, dependent on the quality of our awareness. Whether a situation brings us deepest suffering or deepest transformation depends entirely on how we meet it.
This is where free will is exercised most powerfully. Whether something becomes a wound or a lesson is your choice. Whether loss deepens your bitterness or expands your compassion is your choice. Whether a relationship becomes a prison or a crucible of growth is your choice. This is the great secret: free will is the tool through which destiny fulfills itself.
The vibrational frequency with which you meet your coordinates, the openness, the curiosity, and the willingness to learn both amplifies and confirms your soul’s curriculum. Like attracts like. The energy you bring to your experiences draws toward you experiences of similar vibration. This is called Purushartha, which is the conscious effort toward evolution.
And when the friction between fate and choice dissolves, when you flow with the current rather than fighting it, you enter Wu Wei which is effortless action and harmonious movement. This is not passivity but perfect alignment. This is not giving up but surrendering to the higher intelligence that orchestrates all things.
Part Six: The Great Homecoming
Where is all of this leading? If the Hermetic principles are true, if karma is education, if time is intelligent, if contracts are sacred, if free will and destiny dance together, then what is the point? The point is evolution.
Not evolution in the biological sense of random mutations and survival of the fittest, but evolution in the deepest, most sacred sense: the intelligent, unstoppable movement toward union with infinite awareness. The Buddhists call it Nirvana. The Hindus call it Moksha. The Christians call it Theosis. The name matters less than the reality because all of them relate to the soul’s journey as a spiraling ascent toward its fullest expression.
Each incarnation is not a random event but a successive iteration, a deepening of complexity, a refinement of consciousness. Perhaps one lifetime ends with a blunt pattern, leading to a devastating outcome, a lesson learned through suffering. The next lifetime may build upon this, offering a more nuanced understanding, and a more uplifting experience. The spiral continues upward, each rotation bringing us closer to the center, closer to the truth of who we really are.
Every birth carries greater accumulated wisdom. Every lifetime offers more clarity, more compassion, more conscious choice. The internal patterns that once ruled us unconsciously become visible, understandable, and transformable. This is the dissolution of karma which is not the erasure of experience but the integration of its lessons.
And here is the most hopeful truth of all: the pace of evolution is not fixed. Consciousness accelerates evolution. Honest self-examination, dedicated practice, the willingness to see ourselves clearly are supposedly choices that can speed our journey dramatically. The Gurukulas of India, the Hermetic brotherhoods of Egypt and Greece, and the mystic schools of every tradition, all taught the same truth, that conscious awareness is the catalyst for rapid transformation.
Part Seven: The Gift of Suffering
But if evolution is the natural direction, if consciousness accelerates our journey, then why is there suffering? Why do we experience pain, loss, grief, heartbreak? Why does the universe allow such difficulty?
The answer is both simple and profound: evolution is not equal to comfort.
Deepest transformative suffering is not merely an echo of past actions or a punishment for past mistakes. It is the specific gravity of a particular situation, designed to forge a particular strength, to cultivate a particular compassion, to generate a particular growth. The very experiences that break us are often the ones that make us whole. Think of a sword being forged. The heat is not cruelty; it is necessity. The hammer blow is not violence; it is shaping. The plunge into cold water is not shock; it is tempering. The sword does not become strong despite the fire, it becomes strong because of the fire. So it is with the soul. The deepest challenges are not obstacles to evolution; they are the very engines of it. They are the specific weight of gravity that builds specific muscle. They are the pressure that creates diamonds from coal.
This is why we must not cling too tightly to outcomes. If we believe only in determinism, then every failure is purely our failure, and the weight of that belief becomes unbearable. But if we release some of that ownership to a higher consciousness, to God, to the universe, to the intelligent design of existence, we can find relief. We can fail and move on with the peace of having tried something new, something hard, something necessary. We can succeed without being trapped by that success, willing to try again in new directions, free from the prison of our own reputation.
Part Eight: The Symphony Continues
And so the journey continues, not as a straight line but as a spiral, not as a burden but as a gift, not as a test but as an education. The sun is the source of all vibrational energy. We are not separate from this vibration but participants in it, co-creators in the cosmic symphony.
The karmic laws teach us: what we do echoes through eternity, but not as punishment – as curriculum. We learn through experience, through repetition, through the gentle persistence of the universe teaching us what we need to know. The wisdom of time reveals that there is a right season for everything. We cannot force the flower to bloom, but we can prepare the soil. We cannot command the rain to fall, but we can plant the seeds. When we trust divine timing, when we enter the flow state, we align with forces far greater than our individual will.
We are not alone on this journey. We travel with (soul) groups, with agreements made before birth, with relationships designed to challenge and grow us. The mentor, the rival, the lover, the friend, all are participants in our evolutionary curriculum.
The dance of destiny and choice demonstrates that the coordinates are fixed, but the path is ours to carve. We choose not what happens to us but how we respond. We choose the quality of our awareness, the frequency of our vibration, the openness of our hearts. And finally, the evolutionary imperative reminds us that all of this is moving somewhere. We are not spinning in circles but ascending in spirals. Each lifetime is a step toward home, a movement toward union with the infinite, an expansion into the fullness of who we truly are.
The Morning Practice
Every morning at dawn, when the first rays of light touch the horizon, try to find a place near you where you can stand with your feet planted firmly on the ground. You can face the sun and receive its light for ten minutes, you can allow the sun rays to recalibrate your cells, and to align your circadian rhythm with the rhythm of existence.
You can imagine that you are part of something vast and beautiful. You are remembering that your time is purposeful, that your relationships are sacred, that your choices matter, that your life has meaning, that your evolution is unstoppable. You can become who you were always meant to be: a conscious, joyful, aware soul, carving your unique path through the coordinates of destiny, flowing with the river of existence, rising on the spiral of evolution toward the infinite awareness that is your true home.
A dear friend of mine who first asked me for my thoughts about free will or determinism a few years ago got me thinking, but I did not have an answer for him then. I might have an answer for him now. I might say to him that when the friction between fate and choice dissolves, it’s called effortless action or Wu Wei. I would say to him that free will is the tool through which one’s destiny fulfills itself.
If you clicked on this post for some momentary peace and clarity, I would like to wish you much health and happiness, and if I may, I’d say ” let the journey go on, let the symphony continue, where you are the music”.
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