Sixth Sense & Intuition

The first thing that strikes my mind when you talk of sixth sense and intuition is “God’s Gift – to see the unseen and know the unknown much before the world has to see and know it”. By God’s grace I have been blessed with a pretty good sense of intuition.

It all began when I was in school; then, I could never understand anything happening around or rather I never wanted to or even if I did, I never wanted to interpret it as a part of my own life. I didn’t even realise that what I used to see in my dreams, used to, sooner or later, actually happen in real life. As time passed by meditation did help me a lot in figuring out how to solve the puzzle of life and in realising the true power of this gift! It worked wonders for me during the S.S.C. board exams as a lot of questions that I predicted before the exams used to appear in the paper…!

If I’m emotionally attached to anyone, I can very well predict events about to happen in their lives. But in the initial days, not everyone believed what I said. And I don’t blame it on them either… why would they or anyone, for that matter, believe whatever I said. After all I didn’t even have any proof about what I was talking. I did try to stop it from happening, but nothing seemed to work. The only option was to wait and watch till the incident actually happened. And that could be like, days, weeks, months or years away. That’s the only drawback, I could say – I can’t determine when the event is about to happen. Something I firmly believe is that whatever is written in your destiny has to happen and come what may, it will happen. No one can stop it. Hence, I began thinking that I had no right to change someone else’s destiny; even if it was something bad that was going to happen to them. Reason being it could be the fruit of his / her own Karma, and I am no one to interfere in between. These were the major reasons why I decided I would never communicate my intuitions to anyone.

During this time I was also reading up a lot on decoding the symbols in dreams. Tried it out with a few friends, and it seemed to be working. I could more or less help them come out of their problems. Atleast, it gave me some amount of mental satisfaction. I also began training my mind on manipulating the circumstances and situations. It takes a great deal of mental energy, loads of time into daily meditation and immense purity of thoughts, free from selfish needs and desires. I haven’t mastered the art completely, yet, I can to a certain extent take up the illness of someone I’m emotionally close to, upon my own self and by doing so, free the person from his / her illness. Would sound insane to many, ‘coz why would anyone want to do such a thing! To know and to feel it you have to be sensitive and emotional as much as I am, probably then you would understand why anyone would do such a thing ever!

Coming back to the original discussion on sixth sense, my intuition has sometimes also extended to the limit of predicting natural and man-made disasters. For example, the tsunamis and the serial train blast in Mumbai. I still remember the night when I dreamt about the tsunamis; helpless people, children crying and water everywhere, the emotional damage done was much greater then the physical damage. I could feel the pain and sorrow. I recollect crying in the middle of the night some 2 months before the calamity had actually occurred. I had seen this dream atleast twice or thrice.

Then the day of the train blasts in Mumbai. That morning when I travelled to college, everything seemed to be fine, but I could not understand why I felt so uneasy as if something bad, really bad was about to happen. I had a look outside the train window, and for some strange reason I could see smoke everywhere. I asked some familiar people in the train why was there smoke outside and they told me that I probably needed to get some sleep because there was no smoke at all outside. Whenever the train halted at a station, I could see police personnel on almost every station; that too was not a regular sight. On asking people about it, they told me I was probably hallucinating or something. I was so sure I needed some sleep. Hence, I left early from college bunking the last lecture that day and reached home by 2. On checking the news in the evening, I got to know of what had happened. I was shocked!!! I felt so helpless. Being the kind of sensitive and emotional person that I am, I could not see the footage on TV and simply switched it off… but its memories continue to haunt me even today. Was there something that I could do that would have saved all those lives lost? Was there any way in which I could stop that from happening?

…I still continue to feel guilty about it… At times I feel, being able to know the future isn’t such a nice thing after all, it could also be scary… At times you could see things you never want to see or never wish to happen… At times I wish I never had this gift!

Sixth sense and intuition exist in correlation. If I had to compare it with some colour it would be orange, red or bright yellow. Simply because all these colours signify tremendous amount of energy and the potential to make or break!

As I end this article, I'd like to share with you all a prayer I learnt in school, something that helps me cope up with situations where I have to make complex decisions -

"God, give me the Serenity, to accept the things I cannot change... Courage, to change the things I can... and... Wisdom, to know the difference...!!!"