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This might be a good place for me to share something that's been cooking in my addled mind lately; the concept of free will versus fate or destiny...whether I believe in one, the other or both and how they might integrate.
There's a yogic mantra in the Kundalini paradigm, Sat Nam, which is generally loosely translated to "I Am Truth" or "Truth Is My Name" and it's all good and well and groovy to chant this and say it and translate it while you nod and say, "wow, that's deep" but what the fuck does that really mean? Does it have a universal meaning or will it mean something completely unique to every being because we are all living in and constantly creating our own universes...which would make us all God, every single one of us, whether we're doing something "worthy" (a totally subjective notion but let's roll with the generally accepted judgmental definition) or sitting on the couch watching porn and jerking off...every single one of us are God in our own universe, creating every moment, which is incredibly empowering and overwhelming if this is a new concept.
For a long time I interpreted this mantra, Sat Nam, to be about some blanket universal truth that applied to us all, that we were like raindrops from the same cloud and to that cloud we would eventually return, much like the nature cycle of evaporation, condensation and precipatation...but what if the sages handed down this mantra of "I Am Truth" to tell us flat out that whatever is Truth to YOU, in YOUR world/universe, IS truth because that's all there is. Using some Greek logic here (thank you mom) that would lead to the concept that then anyone else's judgments on the morality, worthiness or ethics of any of your choices or actions would be meaningless because they only reflect that person's universe and state of Truth, not mine. Even when those choices or actions spill over into someone else's universe...their reaction to those and interpretation are their own, right?
Which is a really intriguing concept to me but it seems that it could also be the perfect shield for someone with Jokeresque proclivities to hide behind, honestly, to justify actions the rest of us would label as insane or horrible. But what power and meaning do those labels have? The power we give them?
So in tying this into the whole exploration of free will versus fate or destiny, I echo what so many others have said on here which is that they can coexist, and likely they do coexist, rather than cancelling one another out. As gods of our own universe, if we're taking that idea and running with it for a second like a kid with scissors, we create and manifest and summon forces into action to support those choices but might there be a blueprint or what some people call "Sacred Contracts"...the crossing of paths or the timing of certain events that were agreed upon prior to our physical incarnation on a soul level that accounts for what we usually call serendipity, luck or fate? Predetermined intersections along the course of our lives that we can STILL alter by force of free will, deciding how to act on those meetings, or even changing our contracts whether we're consciously aware of them or not.
One of the spiritual schools I studied with for a time put forth the idea that we are all, every single one of us, gods in training and that after the moment of our physical death we would move from what essentially is, here, a spiritual high school experience to college level and then beyond that lies the choice for us to continue onto paths as ascended masters to guide future souls or becoming gods of our own literal universes out there in the vast reaches of space. Wow, long sentence...
But it's a really interesting ideology to me because it attempts to make some sense of this journey we're having as spiritual beings in a human experience on earth...and it seemingly integrates the concepts of destiny and free will at the same time.
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Posted by marathongal on 2009-02-05 16:01:54 | Rating: | Views: 83
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