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Old 08-25-2007, 04:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Fate of a soul

Fate of a soul


It is a misunderstanding that the life history of every soul is written by God or destiny. God is certainly the creator of this whole world like the builder of the stage and the supplier of dress for a drama. He is responsible up to this level only. The story, dialogues and actions are written by the created self only. The self is pure awareness and is called as causal body, but is composed of several types of vibrations which are the feelings or thoughts or qualities.

The various types result due to various mixing proportions of Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas. Some of these thoughts have become very strong since from several millions of births. Such solidified thoughts are like hard diamonds. The bundle of such diamonds is called as the subtle body. The soul writes its own story of drama based on the directions of these diamonds (Samskaras or Vasanas). Thus, in that way, these diamonds can be treated as destiny. But this destiny has nothing to do with God. The soul itself created its own destiny.

Therefore, the theme of the drama will be uniform in any number of births of that soul. How to change these diamonds? You can change the destiny. The only way is to cut these diamonds by divine diamonds which come out from the preaching of divine knowledge by God through human form called as Satguru. Gita says clearly that God has not created anything and only the nature of the soul, which is bundle of these diamonds, is deciding the theme of the life of any soul here (Svabhavastu Pravartate). When God enters this world in human form, then only God writes His own program which is the story of His divine play.

Gita says that if you recognize such human incarnation and His divine mission, you will be liberated through your participation (Janama Karmacha Me Divyam…).

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

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Old 08-25-2007, 03:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Fate of a soul

Anil,

It seems to me that in all religions there are included 3 elements ...
God, the soul and the world. Are not even these three things one? Therefor, where is the division that you have spoken of except in the mind of men? There is nothing but God. The created self cannot exist without the presence of God so how can we say that destiny has nothing to do with God?

Just a view to consider after reading your post.

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