Monday, 19 March 2018
Choice vs Destiny
March 18, 2018 Economic Times in
The Speaking Tree |
By K S RAM
Are we free to exercise our will? Or are we just puppets going through
motions in life according to a plan, predetermined by asuperior power? Philosophers
have pondered over this question since ages. Omar Khayyam thought we were no
better than water, flowing willy-nilly, “where Destiny with men for Pieces
plays”. Khayyam’s stand is predeterministic. He hints at an unalterable script.
In contrast to this is the traditional view of Judgment Day of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. This view is based on the conviction that each person
is wholly responsible for his conduct in life. The Hindu view of karmic
transmigration also supposes choice for individual human beings.
Cheiro the palmist compares the human condition to that of a pendulum in
motion. The view is close, in a way, to the law of gravity that recognises the
interdependence of all bodies, animate and inanimate.
The scope of individual will is to choose between confinement to the
individual ego, and to submit to the Cosmic Self. Lord Krishna who embodies the
Cosmic Self puts it succinctly in the Bhagavad Gita, “The worshippers of other
gods go to them; My devotees come to Me.”
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta
How do we know that the Divine has heard our prayers?
Blog by Dadashreeji
Q- How do we know that the Divine has heard our prayers and we don’t
need to pray for the same anymore?
Dadashreeji:
The answer for both these questions is the same. If you pray for one
cause how do you know that it has reached the Divine?
Your heart will tell you that. When you offer your prayer completely,
there is peace within your heart. All of a sudden you experience completion
within yourself. There is no more desire to pray for the same thing afterwards.
The moment you experience this within, that there is no struggle for it, know
this well that your prayer has reached the Divine. He heard it. So when you
know that He heard it you don’t have to repeat it again. The prayer has already
gone.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent
7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his
colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting
ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The
doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten
minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime.
I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me
the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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