A kaleidoscope creates beautiful patterns from chaotic bits
and pieces, which are scattered everywhere. When the kaleidoscope is turned,
disorder becomes order, chaos becomes beauty and symmetry.
The Drama of Life is constantly turning and we are part of its
cyclic movement; sometimes this cyclic movement of life is supportive,
comprehensible (understandable) and enjoyable and, at other times, it is tense,
fearful, stressful and incomprehensible (not understandable). There is
confusion and fear because we do not understand what is happening, why it is
happening and how it will get better. Things not only appear chaotic but also
hopeless. If the intellect is able to go beyond the questions of 'Why?',
'What?' and 'How?' and just be still, without judgements, or pressure, for some
period of time, then things do work out. To do this requires faith.
The power of faith means that we know that somehow and
somewhere right solutions and answers will come in their own time.
We are so used to controlling people and situations to obtain
a particular result that we have forgotten how to use the power of
faith. The Law of Faith says, 'Plant the right seeds, make the right
effort, but also let things be.' Faith does not mean to be passive but rather
to have acted and thought about something and then have the patience and trust
that the Drama of Life is also taking care of it. To understand that the
outcome of any action is not just up to me.
In Raja Yoga meditation taught by the Brahma Kumaris, we
often hear the term 'a faithful intellect is victorious'. As the Drama of Life
turns, such an intellect works like a kaleidoscope and can perceive and see the
often hidden, beautiful patterns in life’s situations that, in time, become
visible and benevolent.
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Success, or victory, depends as much on doing the task with the
right intention, as it does on allowing things to take their own course. Wisdom
is an awareness of this balance.
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