Fashion Your Fate in Eternity by |
We are the masters of our own destiny. We are the makers of our own fate. When we fully realize this truth, we will no
longer search for the truth outside of ourselves. When we realize that we are 100% responsible
for our own actions and thoughts—and only when we become 100% responsible
human beings—only then will we become 100% free. We need to stop shirking
our responsibility; we need to get off our phony holy trip or our phony bad-guy
or bad-girl trip. When we are high on our
ego we are suffering from self-delusion, and self-delusion always leads
to confusion and turmoil. Whether we are
playing holy, or playing smart, or playing cool, or playing cute, we are only
playing into the hands of the wicked and conniving. ‘Playing into the hands of
the wicked’ means we are doing the bidding of our ego, it means we are doing actions
that are selfish. Being
responsible means responding in the moment, and moment by moment, with the freshness
of pure consciousness, pure awareness. If we are reacting in our mind, then we are
not responding. When we respond we interact
with Absolute Consciousness, and through that interaction with Absolute Consciousness
we are absolutely purified and freed from all our dilemmas. When we are responsible, we see clearly what
must be done and we do it, without over-thinking or over analyzing. When we over-think we under-do.
Over analyzing is a form of procrastination; it is an ego trick, which
only prolongs our ignorance and suffering. Only
a Yogi, only a human being who is united with his Real Nature, with his True Self,
is really free. So long as we are enslaved
by ego we are not free. Ego is the identity
of the Self with the mind and body and their various adjuncts (intellect, memory,
senses, sense-objects, etc.). A Yogi controls his mind, disciplines his body,
and is not manipulated by his ego. A person
who is driven by ego is always driven mad—he loses his sanity.
We lose our sanity when we make our mind unsanitary.
The mind is polluted when our actions are contrary to our True Nature. But when the body is disciplined and the mind
is controlled, we break free from our false identification (ego) and experience
our True Self. When we are connected with our True Self we fully realize our real nature—we realize undoubtedly who and what we really are. There is no ambiguity or duality. The dichotomy is created only in the mind that is infected with ego. When the ego-infection is removed, we fully recover from the disease of self-delusion and attain true mental health. So long as the vagueness of ego remains lurking in the background, we continue to look outside of ourselves for the answers that can only come from within. We
when play holy (when we pretend to be pure), or when we play bad (when we pretend
it doesn’t matter whether we are pure or not), we neglect to do what we need to
do, and instead we only do what we want to do—in other words, we only do what
our mind and ego tells us to do. When we
are ruled by our mind and ego we are NOT free, no matter how much we pretend to
be free. When we are ruled by our mind
and ego we look for validity in the world of duality and always, always fall prey
to sensuality. A person who has no control
over his or her senses, loses their senses, i.e., becomes crazy.
Sorry to say, but the world is filled with crazy people, and some of them
are not only a danger to themselves but they are also a danger to others. In
the words of Dr. Khanna, “Some of us are temporarily
crazy, but some people are temporarily crazy all the time.” When our mind is infected with ego we are temporarily
crazy, but when the ego-infection is removed with wisdom we get over our ego and
become better—we become ourselves. But some persons refuse to buckle down with
themselves, and they remain victims of their ego. They go through this life following the whims
of the mind and never gain any lasting stability. They die for their pleasures while living in
pain, and in the end they lose everything and gain nothing. But the wise human being makes up his mind and
directs his energies for self-development. Day
by day he continues to improve. He is never
lulled into complacency because he is not interested in protecting his images
(including his self-image); instead, he protects his life by arming himself with
the knowledge of the Self (Atam-Gyaan). That wise human being, that Yogi, is a true
Master of Consciousness and is truly the master of his destiny in devotion. That soul is absorbed in the Supreme Self and
is absolutely free. His fate is fashioned
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