SoulMate, A Myth Or Reality

Soulmate, a myth - reality or just a romantic fad!

We hear, read and think so much about "Soulmate" that at times it becomes a sort of obsession with us. Some people are of the view that soulmate is just a much hyped term propagated by those who can't find a perfect partner in life. It is more of a romantic, new age myth.

There is no defined explanation about a soulmate but I find this Greek myth very fascinating. According to this myth God had made human beings with four arms, four legs, and two faces coming out of a single head. Later Zeus feared that this so called human could become more powerful than Him over the period of time. Thus He split the human in two parts, condemning both parts to keep looking for the other half. This concept of having two individuals as being part of one soul can be considered nearest to the theory of "Soulmates".

There is so much being written on "Soulmates" in books and internet is full of numerous stories about people looking for and finding soulmates. But the thing that makes me wonder is if Soulmate is just a myth or a reality? Personally speaking something in me pokes me to believe this concept of everyone having a twin soul somewhere.

Who can be your soulmate?

A general perception is that soulmates are either lovers or a couple, but I refuse to accept this idea as soul cannot be bound in physical relationships. They are long lost souls, just souls not male or female bodies looking for each other to make love. Yes, love is there but of a very exalted level.

Your soulmate can be your best friend, your family member or even your teacher. It is all about a soul reaching to a connected one after identifying the connection.

I have a friend who met a boy of her age in one of the formal work environments. According to her when she saw him for the first time, she felt a kind of weird connection with him, as if she had met him before. That feeling so weird that she took first step to introduce herself to him. You might like to call it just a deja vu or love at first sight kind of a thing but I told her that she had found her “soul mate”. Over the period of my stay with these two individuals, I could clearly see that the way they clicked was nothing more than an instant recognition of the creation of God split apart by Zeus damned to look for each other.

Were they in love?

I can’t say and I am sure even they never thought on those terms.

Did they spend each and every moment together?

No, not at all as both had two different worlds to live in, which hardly connected their paths with each other.

They had their own dreams, ambitions, and one thing that made me sure of their being soul mates was because I always found them as two different aspects of one personality. I believe that all of us have a masculine as well as a feminine part of our personality. These two individuals were just like those two forms of one personality in two different physical bodies. I could always see that instant chemistry of souls whenever they were with each other.

They didn’t have to ask for one another’s likes or dislikes (it never occurred to them to discover each other) they just knew what other wanted. It was a “sublime relationship”, if I have to define them in a commonly used term.

Did they live together always?

As destiny would have it’s way, they parted announced without any particular reason but as much as I could feel their soul connection, I am sure my friend was able to recognise that their physical togetherness could hinder the physical progress of the other part of her soul connect. She decided to let the other half grow.

They departed with not even good byes, as the souls knew that it was not meant to be a good bye. They had to connect again after many years of distance and they did. That is what I call a soul mate and soul connection.

Is soul connect all about reincarnation?

Reincarnation is the cycle of rebirth till Moksha is gained. Is reincarnation mandatory for the soul mates to meet? If we look into the descriptions of soulmates we will find various references to reincarnation. If I ask myself about my beliefs in reincarnation and soulmates, I would say that I believe in one more very important connection which has to do something with the connection of our souls related to our previous births and that is the “Karmic Connection of Souls”.

What is “Karmic Connection” of Souls?

I have no theory behind my belief but I believe in the theory of a “Soul tribe”. The souls connect with each other and these are those souls which have a deep “Karmic Connection” with each other. They connect to clear the “Karmic Debt” to each other. I have so many relationships where I feel that I have not gained anything emotionally or spiritually from them but just given away the pieces of my inner peace to them. These are the souls from my soul tribe whom I owe a lot from the previous births and wish to clear all my debts so that my soul gets freedom from the connection with them. These souls have taught my physical being patience so that I can survive every pain to get rid of their debt. Keeping this in view now I can claim that the soul connect is all about reincarnation. Reincarnation is a huge concept in Hinduism with a belief in seven levels of reincarnation. 

Soul Mate the mirror of your unseen self

Soul mate is the mirror of who we were and what we have become. They are the anchors to pull us back to our real spiritual self without their physical presence 24/7. Their disappearance for a while gives our soul a chance to clear off the Karmic debts with others so that when the two finally return together they are free of all debts and ready to meet at an exalted spiritual base which is way beyond all that is physical and worldly. 

The Concept of Twin Flame

When the soul mates, after clearing all karmic debts meet for the last time they can be considered, “Twin Flames”.

These are souls in an enlightened state. Spiritualists claim that “Twin flames” are very rare to find. They meet each other in their first incarnation to remember the frequency of each other’s soul and keep meeting till they click to the perfection level of their frequencies. Finally when they are then reunited for the last time on this planet earth, others can clearly see the “two bodies, one soul” in them.

Do bad relationships help bringing Soulmates together?

All of us look for happy and perfect relationships in life but not always everything goes well and we find ourselves in real bad situations. These situations are created by bad relationships in our lives. Should we hate them, just because they are cause negativity in our lives?

No, my viewpoint regarding this is, that such relationships must be tolerated and treated with utmost respect so that we clear off our Karmic debt towards them and be free of them as soon as possible. Only if we would be free of their debts, could we meet our Twin Soul for eternity.
Thomas Moore said,” A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life." 

I end with a prayer

"May you clear your Karmic debts, 

with utmost sincerity and unrest. 

May you meet your twin flame,

shimmering in all its glory. 

For you are born to be one, 

Today, tomorrow or whenever, 

Pray that the day will soon come.

Amen."

Have you found your soul mate? Are you getting ready for the ultimate reunion with your "Twin Flame"?