Friday, April 20, 2012

On Free Will

Surprisingly , this is a note that I have written about a year ago - cant remember what made me write this but definitely yes - it must have been a lesson i learnt by wrong application of my free will & ending up in a mess... Yet, it makes sense to me every moment of accomplishment & failure. Now for my thoughts....

Everything that happens to us out of our actions can be explained in the following context. Apply to all the situations you have been into - due to your actions ( It excludes situations that you get into without your intention like a fall,  accident etc etc) Its all about our  respective "spheres" and the extent of exercising our "free will" within that sphere  Problem starts when you are not conscious & aware of your respective spheres.. You identify the wrong sphere & exercise inapproppriate free will..  And we fail miserably..

So, how do you get into the right space?

  
 1. Do what makes YOU Dharmically  happy first  , your family happiness follows automatically. But remember - for an angry man, "anger" makes him happy , for a politician,  cheating makes him happy  & thats his Free Will within his mis-interpreted sphere  . Thats why I said "Dharmically"

2.  Never never get into "jealousy" and "envy" mode  . The minute you feel these, it means you have recognized your 'inferiority' . And, live to EXCEL and not to COMPETE. Jealousy & envy vanish automatically . The other man  is happy or  successful because He CHOSE to be SO & you didnt.

3.  Anger- Ideally avoid it but practically, you can get angry but before it recognises you, get OUT of it. Which means , you have a 'microsecond'  romancing with anger and thats all.


4. True enlightenment is when you go  back to reclaim what you renounced earlier ...  BUT you REACT  to the same events that made you renounce , "DIFFERENTLY" . In fact, ultimate reaction is "Non-Reaction".   Zendo helps..

Have i missed something... Yes - Never try to Understand & Interpret God - Just trust .. or choose to be an Atheist . Its eithr 0% or 100%. 

2 comments:

  1. can we reall..........................y follow this. seems to be quite challenging. will definetely start practising rather than speaking which is quite a difficult task to put with.

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  2. Agreed..If you notice, its not said that you should never get angry. Impossible to begin with. Slowly bring the frequency and time period down slowly. It may take years.. but like a phase shift, one day it will strike you that its pointless and you will be near to zero almost in a single moment. Wait for that one day.. Its your free will to be angry.. Its also your free will not to be angry. But before that find out the "you" in "your" freewill. That "you" in me is not lakshmi .. that "you" in 'your' is not kappu. All answers are there..The day we understand 'who the you is'.

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