DESTINY VS FREEWILL
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(In response to a question on destiny versus freewill)
A nice question! Your present moment is the totality of all your past decisions. Now you are here in this studio. You decided to wake up early, take the proper route, check in here, sit here and continue to sit here. Like this, all your past decisions form the present. So your future is going to be all your present decisions. Why then do we think it is fate? It is because we make decisions unconsciously in the present and get the results that we don't expect. When those results happen, we say it is fate. When we make decisions which bring results that we did not expect, we call it fate. When we make conscious decisions, we will be aware of the side effects and after effects. When we are not aware of the side effects and after effects, we call it fate. Actually, life is our pure choice. It is we who make the decisions, never somebody else for us. God is so gracious, even though the world is His, He allows us to have our choice!
Paramahamsa
Conscious Talk - Radio interview
29 Mar 2005, Seattle, USA


Maheshwara puja in the
Salem ashram.
Paramahamsa's paternal
grandmother, Anusuya
Ammal, is seen here in the
picture receiving food from
the Senior most Swami at
the Maheshwara puja, 2007.
TIMELESS AWARENESS
Way to fulfillment
The technique to drop from time bound awareness is what I call meditation. All great truths - scientific and mystical, are discovered only when you are beyond time. Mass production can be done with time bound awareness. Mass always lives with time bound awareness. If you can drop out of that, and escape from it, you become intelligent. All intelligent people are dropouts! All path finders are path breakers! When you drop out of time bound awareness, even one idea, one thought that hits your consciousness can transform your whole life. Whatever you can achieve with time bound awareness throughout your life, you can achieve thousands of times more, with one moment of timeless awareness. For example, can you equate all that you created with your life's earnings with whatever the theory of gravity has created (which resulted from just one moment of timeless awareness)? Apart from personal comforts and material benefits, the timeless awareness gives you a sense of tremendous fulfillment that you lived your life.
Paramahamsa
Cosmic Intelligence
18 Mar 2005,
San Gabriel, USA

