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"Know what you can change in life, know what you can't, and have the wisdom to know the difference in between the two." (AA)
"Your full understanding of responsibility is required, much depends on it"
Responsibility is essential up to the third body. From the fourth to the fifth body, the jump only happens in surrender.
You have to believe in free will, you have no choice. Free will is part of ego, good for creating and manifesting but existentially incorrect.
"Practically, you are responsible for living in harm ony with your neighbours.
Spiritually, you understand that nothing is in your hands. You allow the energy of the moment to guide you in all things, with the awareness that this is a gift from Source."
The New Dawn, Maitreya Ishwara
Many of our own wills are too demanding and need to grow up.
'Deep inside us there exists a spark of divine will, God's will. Many people experience divine will as outside of themselves. This means must always find someone else to tell them what to do. This leads to worthlessness. I have found that the spark of Divine Will exists within every human being. it is essential that you allow time to search for it inside until you find it. It is there you are not the exception.'
Emmanuel said,"Your will and God's will are the same .......when something brings you joy and fulfillment, it is the will of god speaking through your own heart."
Source: Hands of Light, B. A. Brennan
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Maitreya Ishwara www.ishwara.com
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Those of you who are familiar with my work will be aware of my fatalistic predisposition. My direct experience and the irrevocable logic of advaita insist that the Whole is the one and only power in existence. This means your ego and its program for self-improvement is also being managed by the One power. Which means you are fundamentally and totally fucked (in the hands of Life already).
Krishna highlighted the law of destiny in his classic battlefield exchange with Arjun. He counselled Arjun to play his part in the divine play. And pointed out that the die was already cast, and in fact Arjun had no real choice other than to play his pre-destined role. Arjun is apparently convinced by Krishna's wisdom, and this story forms the heart of the Hindu understanding of destiny. Krishna is absolutely right.
The Whole is the only doer, chooser, manifester and power. It programs humans with a comical, self-important ego that is busy trying to choose the best for itself. But life is more complex and contradictory than either 'free will' or 'pre-destination'. In fact it is both simultaneously. For humans apparently have the option of choosing to be more conscious.
This is where Buddha enters the scene. He witnesses the lethargy and degeneration that appear to spring from Krishna's fatalism, and teaches personal responsibility for your life and enlightenment. Osho flirts a little with Krishna, but his main thrust follows Buddha's call to choose to live more consciously.
The apparent contradiction between Buddha and Krishna easily dissolves with understanding the set up.
You are programmed by consciousness to experience separation via the mechanism of your choosing ego. Eventually you will be attracted to a new age teaching that emphasises making the right choices and manifesting your hidden potential. This stage of choosing and ego development is essential.
The ego must come to its positive, responsible potential before meaningful let go into the flow of life can happen. And even if your ego needs more choosing and manifesting, you can understand that ultimately only the one and only power of the Whole really manages your life; via your ego/mind.
So I agree with both Buddha and Krishna, and teach meditators to choose to live each moment as consciously as possible. And to fully understand that your success or failure is not in your hands at all. You try your best to be as conscious as possible and watch with equanimity at the mixed results of your intense endeavour.
Finally the experience and understanding of choicelessness is fully revealed in its wonderful climax of total surrender to the One that is all there ever is. By the way, there isn't the One plus your ego. Your agent of separation itself is also just a play of the One, to give you essential experiences of trying to be the best that you can be. And to create the context of suffering that must contrast your ecstatic release in the sublime surrender of awakening.
Love Maitreya
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