What is my USP?

By Minhas Tejani (Author, Coach, Transcendent Educator)

The key question that I am pondering on these days is “What is the reason/rationale of my creation? Reverend Michael Beckwith of Agape Spiritual Centre shares something very significant as he says that amongst more than 7 billion people in this world no one is created without a purpose… It is pertinent for every soul to know his/her purpose of existence. Rumi puts it aptly as Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I was reflecting on the same and remembered my visit to the British Library in 2018. This was a unique experience as I was invited by Mr. Mike Davies a very gentle soul with whom I worked in Jaffery Academy Mombasa as he was helping the school transform into a Human Scale Education School. Mike is an Academician and a humble human.  We agreed to meet somewhere in London and the most convenient for both of us was at the British Library. When I entered the library, I was mesmerized to see the walls full of books and other learning resources. What an amazing place of learning.

Later on, I asked myself how do they keep the records of these millions of books and suddenly the answer popped up ISBN. There is a unique identification number for each of these books. The similar phenomenon is in humans too where we have a unique finger print. I later synthesized everything and concluded that the humans also have a USP “Unique Soul Print” which helps us determine our purpose in life. Like each book has a unique identity, each human also has a unique identity and purpose. It is like reading and unfolding the truths from our own life book. 

I am inspired with the words of Shams Tabraiz It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.

Thus, an important question worth reflecting on is:

Do we come with a pre written life book or we write our own book during the course of our life? 


17th September 2018 - A Selfie with Mike Davies in The British Library, London

NB: This is an excerpt from my book “The Transcendent Educator”.

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