kali's sword: activity 3
who controls your actions, your life?In the process of remembering that God and 'I' are one and the same entity, we have to do away with the concept of 'I', destroy the concept of separation, and we have to eliminate the idea that we (as individuals) control the events of our lives. Though it appears that are able to choose how to think, and though it feels as if we make decisions, the fact is that all thoughts arise and fall in a Domino Effect that is designed by God. The course of our lives is already written, and there is nothing that we can do to alter it. The moment of true surrender arrives when we see through the illusion of control. When we see that we have no control, and that the mind is in the hands of God, we also realize that God has made it this way because the ideas that make up the mind are without substance. Most importantly, we end up seeing that the 'person' that we think we are does not exist, and that leads us with a gaping space in which the Truth of the True Self emerges.
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"Long before you come here, it’s already said where you have to be, who will be your guide and when it will be that God makes everything possible for you to achieve Him. Actually, you can say it is you, but it is not you at all. It is only Him, because in the core of everything your Atma is only Him."
-Sri Swami Vishwananda |
activity 3
The following exercises are designed to assist you in seeing through the illusion of control. They are designed to help you see there is no doer, that is, you are not doing anything, but rather, actions are being done with you being only the witness of those actions. In time, these exercises will lead you to your Real identity, your One-ness with God.