Talk:Soul Mates

By Vishal Agarwal

Sometimes we come across total strangers and feel an instant and deep connection with them. There is no logical explanation for why people living far away and unknown to each other develop a close bond together, bypassing thousands of other individuals that they have known for a long time in their respective proximities. The discovery of soul mates is often attributed to some relationship with them in our previous lives-

“Imagine a tree, then the forest where it stands; then many other forests of trees. The twigs, leaves, and fruits that spring from the same branch are soul families. The tree, with all its branches and offshoots, is a soul group. The forest containing the trees is a wider soul group. In life, we meet those who are from the same branch as ourselves, those who are from the same tree, and those who are from the same forest, as well as those who are from completely different forests. When we meet close members of our soul family we often recognize them joyfully, as soul mates, feeling ourselves to be of similar ‘substance’ to them. Members of our genetic family may or may not be members of our close soul family.”