To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #77       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         What's in your spiritual backpack?                     After you had taken a hot shower, dabbed on the finest perfume in the heavens, and were ready to be reincarnated and walk into the homes of your two mothers - Gaia - mother earth and the womb of your mother, were you singing ‘my bags are packed and I am ready to go’, while having a last minute briefing from your angels and guides? And if you go back to that moment in cyclic time, what were you really carrying in your spiritual backpack?           No clothes for sure because you were wearing the five sheaths - koshas - the five instruments of life force - earth, water, fire, air and space. But your guides did pack the other 14 elements of your astral body, the only baggage of your past lives, if you may.           In an intricately sewn inside pocket of your backpack was your pre-birth intention - a pre-birth contract that you signed with the universe - a detailed outline of your purpose, your reason for being. But you can’t read this contract because it was written in invisible ink only to be made visible word by word as you mined your beautiful talents, gifts and purpose in the world and used it in the service of others. The appendix to this contract was your mission on the planet for this lifetime.           There were the soul contracts also with those whom you would encounter in this life as gifts, lessons, and tests. All to meet here again for a group hug after your and their missions on earth would be complete.           Also in your spiritual backpack was your syllabus for the lessons in this lifetime. A syllabus that was not meant to be read and the lessons that had to be learnt by overcoming the pain and suffering, not theoretically. Only then that lesson would reveal itself to you, but still in cryptic language for a surprise test would see if you really have learnt it.           There was also a guidebook of intuition and the signs you will receive in your temporary visit to keep guiding you to follow your path. Many times, these signs would come to you with no form or substance, and you would need words to clothe them.           And finally, there was a little note from the divine itself.           I am in you and your mission is to find me and manifest me through everything that you do. Tat Tvam Asi.                 You run out of luck when you run out of faith.                     There are no stepchildren for the universe. You are as entitled to abundance as your enemy, you are as deserving of the joy as the one whom you know is the most joyous. You are as significant a beneficiary of the love of the universe as the person whom you are the most envious of.           But the biggest barrier to the generosity of the universe is when we start believing that we have been overlooked when the universe was showering love on its 8 billion children. We start believing that we need to take charge of things ourselves. We need to make our own plans, we need to make sense of things, we need to find our own means of living and making a living, we need to drive our life ourselves. We take the wheel and faith takes the backseat.           The scarcity mindset sets in, we start being stingy with our belief, we start taking control of everything that happens for us and to us, we start believing that our luck will run out, we become miserly with our indomitable trust in the miracles and synchronicity, and we don't want to overspend our spiritual abundance.           We save it for a rainy day and one cold, icy morning we realise twenty years have passed by and abundance has bypassed us. The flow is just a trickle, the coffers are as dead as coffins, ideas don't like our company, joy has found new takers, fulfillment is non-existent and miracles are hitting rock bottom in a closed box of hope.           The universe never runs out of ideas, art, book ideas, songs, recipes, words, paintings, stories, homes, friends or money. It's we who lack the faith that the universe does have enough for us, for everyone.           Have the faith that the universe has your back and has a far more intelligent plan than you can ever put together. And it was set in motion centuries ago and will come to you when you have the ‘Shukr’ and ‘Sabr’ - the gratitude for the present moment and the patience forever. It will be delivered at the right time, but you can't ask the universe for a tracking number.           Have the faith that the universe is looking out for you. Just because you haven't heard from it just as you expected does not mean you've been unfriended and blocked.           Become an active participant in your life, learn to suffer well and allow, allow, allow. 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