Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 24
Your Conscious, Friendly Mind Day 24
Willpower and Grace: The Two Wings of Spiritual Ascension
We all are gifted with the willpower to uplift our own mind. As time unfolds, we keep painting the picture we see of ourselves on the canvas of our life, with the brush of our mind and heart. We create and shape our own destiny. The past creates the present and the present creates the future.
Seekers of different faiths and traditions ask if our life is predestined. The simple and truthful answer is yes. Destiny continues to unfold as a matter of cause and effect. Destiny, both in our own lives and in the life of the world around us, is proceeding from what has been.
The answer, however true, gives rise to an even more important question. If everything is predestined, what is the role of individual willpower? Do we have any freedom? This is a difficult, confounding, enduring mystery for humankind.
As long as we are ignorant of our true identity, as long as we have not found our inner existence, our Eternal Reality, our lives are predestined. Only by finding the authentic being, the true Self within, which is infinite existence, knowledge and joy, can we unravel the mystery of destiny.
We cannot borrow the answer. No philosophy can resolve this ancient riddle of human existence. The essential question, the one that must be personally answered, remains: Who am I?
As long as we have an ego, a separate individuality, we are operating under the influence of destiny. The day we transcend our mind, dissolve our ego, we are no longer bound by the myth of destiny.
