15/11/2025
Samyoga means complete connection or contact. It is the physical or metaphysical joining of two or more things, the point where the inner world meets the outer world, where awareness meets experience, the moment of spark.
Sometimes an old framed picture appears where it shouldn’t be, in a cafe where young talented musicians bend time into something both tender and bold. In that moment, the memory of the picture activates the memory of a lost dear one, and suddenly the world feels slightly tilted, as though it has arranged itself in a way that defies the ordinary linear sequence.
This is samyoga, the contact point where the inner world meets an external event, in a moment that seems to carry a charge.
The details of the moment begins to cohere. Coherence is what arises when the outer event aligns with an inner truth. It is the sense that this encounter, unexpected as it is, fits into the narrative of life in a meaningful way. The picture may have been placed there through ordinary causes, but the feeling it evokes is anything but ordinary. The timing lands with precision. The memory it triggers feels like a message, a visitation. The feeling that this moment is not random hits. The world did not suspend its laws, but the inner world recognized itself in the moment.
The miracle is not in the picture, but in the intimacy of this timing, in the tenderness of the memory. The miracle is in how the moment lands, and, for one heartbeat, provides the sense of being in that dear one's presence again.
When samyoga becomes coherence, and coherence becomes miracle, we are reminded that nothing loved is ever fully lost. The connections that shape us have their own ways of resurfacing. Their own timings. Their own subtle grace.
And sometimes all it takes is a picture out of place to show us that love continues to move through our lives in unexpected ways.
“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”
- Rumi 🌹
