CREATION - MAINTANANCE - DESTRUCTION

Prior to my personal experience with the following knowledge, it was first introduced to me by my teacher Thom Knoles, who learned it from his teacher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who learned it from his teacher Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, and so on back thousands of years…Jai Guru Deva.

Three of the preeminent forces operating in the universe are: Creation, Maintenance and Destruction.

CREATION: For the purpose of bringing forth something new and evolutionary into existence via innovation, improvisation, or fashioning previous creations into a never before realized combination.

MAINTENANCE: For the purpose of maintaining creations, as long as they remain relevant to evolution.

DESTRUCTION: For the purpose of destroying previous creations that are no longer relevant to evolution. The cycle can then continue and new relevant creations can occur.

The Universe does nothing but change: these three forces keep that imperative in motion.

We have seen these forces at play in our own lives millions of times: in our homes, play, work, creativity, relationships, health, possessions, thoughts, beliefs, you name it. The following are some examples:

A fruit is created, matures, and ripens: it’s status is then maintained for as long as it is useful (relevant); maybe until it is eaten by an animal, insect or human. Once it ceases to remain relevant for consumption, it drops from the tree and is destroyed by decomposition. It then reintegrates whence it came, back into the earth for the purpose of supporting new creation.
You start a new job; it’s exciting and challenging at first: it remains that way for a period of time, yet once you settle in, maybe it begins to feel monotonous. At that point, either you take the initiative to change your perspective, shake things up, or you maintain the status quo. If you choose to maintain the status quo, you will then either fall out of love with the job and quit, your performance will wain and you’ll be fired, your position will go away, or the company will go under, etc. Ultimately, if your maintenance of the status quo becomes over zealous, one way or another, the current irrelevant status of your job will be destroyed.
You engage in a new intimate relationship, everything is fresh and mysterious, a massive amount of leaping into the unknown, discovery, learning and excitement is occurring. Then naturally over time, the newness and the mystery subsides: you then either take the initiative to shift perspective, shake things up and reintroduce novelty, or you maintain the status quo. If you choose to maintain the status quo, you may become bored, or resentful: then you or your partner may become unfaithful or you’ll stop spending time together, or you’ll start fighting about everything. One way or the other, the status quo of the relationship will be destroyed. This may mean that the relationship itself will be destroyed because it’s relevancy or usefulness is over for both of you. Or, merely the current status of the relationship will be destroyed. This may involve some pain, but ultimately will provide the opportunity for both parties to heed the call of change, shift perspectives, reengage in a new way, and recreate the way they relate: reigniting relevancy.
Your body is fit and healthy due to its youth, despite the fact that you don’t feed it well and don’t exercise. Time passes and you begin to get some small nudges that your body is not as vital as it once was, yet you pay no mind and continue to neglect to nourish your body with healthy food and exercise. Seemingly out of nowhere, a major health scare arrives that threatens your life. Option A: you heed the call and completely change your lifestyle, reinstating your bodies vitality and deepening your reverence for life. Option B: you do what you need to do to “fix” your illness, in the short term but then quickly return to the status quo of neglecting your health. Sooner or later, bodily deterioration and possibly bodily death arrives.

One of the major themes here is that change is always coming, whether we like it or not. We can either:

Try our best to stop change, the imperative of the entire Universe, and eventually be dragged kicking and screaming by destruction into change, or…
Become highly aware of the nudges we are receiving as to the waning relevancy of a particular aspect of our life, then choose to embody the destruction operator, destroy what has become irrelevant and LEAP into the unknown - pure creation.

Like a canned good, every person, place, thing, experience, thought, belief or emotion has an expiration date: a window of relevancy. Yet we often tend to either not look at all or pretend as though we did not see the expiration date and then blame the expired phenomenon for following the imperative of the Universe - CHANGE. It’s important to note that expiration is not the end, it’s a changing of status, which is ultimately a new beginning. The dictionary definition of expiration is, “The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid:” a contract with evolutionary relevance.

Now, each one of these roles, Creation, Maintenance and Destruction are equally important in our lives. Optimally, we want all three in play, in the above order, in a circular fashion. Yet many of us have had periods where the above order became askew: such as Maintenance in the primary position, destruction in the secondary, and creation in the tertiary: creating a life experience where fear of the unknown is the driving force, leading to a painful oscillation between monotony and destruction.

Maybe we’ve had periods or have witnessed the experiences of others in which Maintenance has been relegated to the tertiary position, placing Destruction in the secondary. Thus, creating a volatile experience of major creative highs immediately followed by crushing destructive lows, due to there being no maintenance of what is working, relevant, therefore no sustainability.

Maybe we’ve experience or witnessed Destruction being in the primary position with constant rejection of Creation and Maintenance. This can play out as someone constantly sabotaging themselves and/or others, or involved in a life of crime, violence, drugs, sometimes leading to life in jail, bodily death inflicted by another or by one’s self.

These are not punishing, but benevolent cause and effect forces in the Universe, tirelessly doing their work to keep the entire Universe, which of course includes YOU, moving in the direction of evolutionary change.

Let’s have reverence for, become intimate with, foster an alliance with and be available to embody these forces. Let’s heed their call: “NIVAR TATVAM” = Transcend where you are.

All of my love, Wade Robson.