Me, My Guru

On Destiny

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She was calm as ever. It was as if she already knew where I was trying to get her and she was feeling amused because she was ready with an answer.
 

“You asking me a question is Destined! How I deal with this question is my free-will. Otherwise called my “Karma” that is going to decide my next stop of Destiny. I can deal with this question by “ shouting at you for asking all irrelevant questions and being dumb not to understand what I say –ever I can just ignore your question and move on be patient enough to answer your question. Yes and I can see you already have few more ways of dealing with your question – right?” I nodded in affirmative. The way I answer is ‘free-will’ or my ‘present karma’. Free-will is like a path. The moment you chose your path, the next stop in that path is ‘pre-destined’. Still confused? Fine…... Let me give you an example. To travel to Madras from Hyderabad, there are three possibilities. If you take a train to Madras via Guntur route, you would be at Nalgonda station after traveling approximately for 2 hrs in that route. That’s Destined. It is destined so because of the path chosen. 

If the train taken is the one going via Kurnool, we would get Mahaboobnagar station after traveling for 2 hrs. That’s destined again.
 

If the choice made is the train traveling in Vijayawada route then we’ll have tea in Warangal after 2 hours.
 

Choosing a certain path is in our hands. Here, it’s train for eg. But once selected, the station that we would get after 2 hours of travel is Destined.

Reaching the final destination for all of those traveling by various trains is also ‘Destined’.
 

Since the train is chosen by us, we are making our destiny. Once chosen the stations are fixed – that’s Destined. Clear?”

As I was about to open my mouth, my Guru started laughing and then replied” forget it…..i just gave an example from day to day life to explain……and here you are getting confused thinking of various other possibilities like “what if I boarded a wrong train? “what if I wanted to travel via Kurnool but because of non-availability of tickets had to travel by Vijayawada bound train?” etc. her laugh hadn’t stopped yet. With that mischievous smile, she added “forget it. Me explaining is ‘free-will or is the choice I am making’ and you not understanding is Destined”…she walked away laughing and I stood there confused…yes I had still few more questions to ask but that had to wait……….

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Me, my Guru – fish and the ascetic

 

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Me, my Guru – fish and the ascetic 

Monk saw the fisherman leave. He felt like a failure. He was both confused and angry at these fish. He didn’t understand what went wrong today! Finally, as day came to an end, he left towards his hut.

There in the dark of his hut he saw through the events and his actions. He realized his folly. He saw the ‘ego trip’ he fell into! He saw how one expectation of that fisherman changed his nature, stability and the state of mind. He saw how he became bound wanting to live up to fisherman’s expectations! In that he saw his fall.

He noticed how change in his intention brought about the change in his conduct. Those fish sensed his intentions! No doubt, they kept away from him!

He laughed at his folly. He laughed at himself. All these years he had done such intense penance and yet fell such an easy prey to flattery! His desire to live up to fisherman’s expectations made him look such a fool!

No doubt, ‘maya’ is considered so difficult to overcome. With renewed respect for sadhan and increased vigour, awareness and enthusiasm he decided to win over his ‘ego’. He thanked the fisherman’s arrival for it taught him where he stood in his sadhan. He slept over his decision.

Next day, he got up as usual! He went to lake as usual. He got into the lake and started his penance as usual! And fish came near him as usual!

Things returned to their normal routine” so saying our Guru left us.

Some people had come to visit her and she had made them wait while she attended our queries. Having finished her job here, she left to play her part with the visitors.

We were left with the story, our questions and our understanding.

If simple fish could behave differently to different state of mind of that monk, then what say about humans and Universe? 

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# fish and the ascetic story, intentions, lust, desire and its effect, law of attraction

also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Warangal 

read the above link to understand what destiny and freewill mean....read the complete post of the above link - not just the part i have given link to.....