"We all are. We all are Jambavant. Think, why our ancestors exhorted us with "Soham"," Rishi told Aman while addressing the whole class and then collapsed on the floor.
For a start I would like to say that we are all like Hanuman with enormous bodily potential, compassion, and knowledge. Like him we are playful and capable of playing with others like a team member. And like Hanuman we are also confronted with problems which seem unsurmountable.
It is at that moment we seek a mentor like Jambavant and there are very few such noble souls with deep insights and spiritual experience. You have to seek such a person and if we are lucky, a Jambavant will present himself or herself at your door step and wait for you to ask the question. And a distressed Hanuman asks "How am I going to cross the Ocean?" and "How am I going to help this wonderful helpless friend called Rama whose wife has been kidnapped and carried across the ocean?" What the mentor does here is open up this syndrome into two dialectical opposites, namely Desire and Destiny.
Desire is born due to one's interactions with family, society, strangers and texts/ scriptures. This is a knowledge system that you get from the world outside and you convert it as yours, often following/ mimicking fellow beings around you. Your love for food, entertainment and sports arise from this.
Destiny, on the other hand is 'Destiny Naturally Acquired' (DNA), something that you have in your system, crystallized down the centuries of your genetic existence. Do we have the power to tap into this naturally acquired strengths and manifest them as one's capability?
What Jambavant does is to make Hanuman look at his Destiny, the powers that he has acquired as the son of the Wind God and a celestial angel like Anjana. He makes him focus on that strength, invoke it and unleash the values of such a potent energy. Hanuman, like most of us, has no clue about what his capabilities are. When he realizes his DNA, he has to just take a leap of faith and lo! behold, he is up there flying fearlessly, blessed by his father's powers which he has inherited.
The relevance of Hanuman for us is to look for such a mentor, learn to unconditionally surrender to that knowledge system and then convert them into nuggets of wisdom so that more such Hanumans can be ignited to take that crucial step forward, away from mundane desires and transit towards what is stored in one's destiny.
For some strange reason the term 'Destiny' has always been connoted with something that is beyond one's control, held by some super-natural force. I, for one, believe strongly that the time has come now to think of Destiny as a very scientific idea. It is something that one can decode not in a bio-genetic lab, but in the laboratory called Life and her Knowledge systems. Life is about making the correct choices through constant enquiry and to understand the powers stored inside us. That's what Hanuman did, thanks to the mentorship of Jambavant.
For a start I would like to say that we are all like Hanuman with enormous bodily potential, compassion, and knowledge. Like him we are playful and capable of playing with others like a team member. And like Hanuman we are also confronted with problems which seem unsurmountable.
It is at that moment we seek a mentor like Jambavant and there are very few such noble souls with deep insights and spiritual experience. You have to seek such a person and if we are lucky, a Jambavant will present himself or herself at your door step and wait for you to ask the question. And a distressed Hanuman asks "How am I going to cross the Ocean?" and "How am I going to help this wonderful helpless friend called Rama whose wife has been kidnapped and carried across the ocean?" What the mentor does here is open up this syndrome into two dialectical opposites, namely Desire and Destiny.
Desire is born due to one's interactions with family, society, strangers and texts/ scriptures. This is a knowledge system that you get from the world outside and you convert it as yours, often following/ mimicking fellow beings around you. Your love for food, entertainment and sports arise from this.
Destiny, on the other hand is 'Destiny Naturally Acquired' (DNA), something that you have in your system, crystallized down the centuries of your genetic existence. Do we have the power to tap into this naturally acquired strengths and manifest them as one's capability?
What Jambavant does is to make Hanuman look at his Destiny, the powers that he has acquired as the son of the Wind God and a celestial angel like Anjana. He makes him focus on that strength, invoke it and unleash the values of such a potent energy. Hanuman, like most of us, has no clue about what his capabilities are. When he realizes his DNA, he has to just take a leap of faith and lo! behold, he is up there flying fearlessly, blessed by his father's powers which he has inherited.
The relevance of Hanuman for us is to look for such a mentor, learn to unconditionally surrender to that knowledge system and then convert them into nuggets of wisdom so that more such Hanumans can be ignited to take that crucial step forward, away from mundane desires and transit towards what is stored in one's destiny.
For some strange reason the term 'Destiny' has always been connoted with something that is beyond one's control, held by some super-natural force. I, for one, believe strongly that the time has come now to think of Destiny as a very scientific idea. It is something that one can decode not in a bio-genetic lab, but in the laboratory called Life and her Knowledge systems. Life is about making the correct choices through constant enquiry and to understand the powers stored inside us. That's what Hanuman did, thanks to the mentorship of Jambavant.