Questioner: I want to know about how much of our life is governed by karma
and how much is our free will?
so many people I've heard said everything in your life is governed by karma
and the others, like, we make choices.
So how if we make a choice is
are we creating the karma from our choice?
Sadhguru: It is by your thought, bt your emotion and your action -
this is how you perform your action, isn't it?
So karma means, till now whatever you did,
the residual impact of that is definitely there upon your life.
But this moment's karma is in your hands.
Yesterday's karma, you cannot change, but this moment's karma is in your hands.
This moment karma this moment's karma could be a karma of
freedom or of bondage.
If you do if you handle this moment in a certain way,
you will be free from everything that was yesterday.
If you do not handle it that way, yesterday will rule you today;
this is also your karma, this is also your
See, please do not understand karma as some kind of punishment and reward.
It's not like that.
It is just that everything that you touch with your mind,
with your emotion, with your body,
a bit of it sticks to you; the residual action is remaining with you.
Yesterday whatever you did, is it not there in your memory?
Is it not there in your memory?
Is it not influencing what you do today?
Yesterday what you thought, is it there in your memory?
Is it not influencing your thought and action today?
Yesterday what you felt in your emotions, is it not there in your memory?
Memory is not just mental memory.
Memory is on many different levels; it is in your body,
it's in your chemistry, it's in your energy,
in many different back-up systems are there for your energy… for your memory.
So this memory is acting itself out.
But this moment if you wish to be conscious, this memory you can use it whichever way you
want.
You can look back on your life and laugh at all the stupid things that you did.
You can look back on your life and cry, 'Why did I do all this stupid things?'
Or you can look back on your life and learn that,
'Okay, I did all these stupid things yesterday, what is the smart thing that I can do today?'
Same karma.
Yesterday's karma is same karma but this moment's karma can be different
depending upon how consciously you act this moment, isn't it?
This moment's karma can be either karma of sweetness or bitterness.
Yesterday might have been sweetness or bitterness; you cannot change that.
Can you change what you did yesterday?
You cannot change that.
But what you make out of it today, that you can change,
that is always in your hands, always and always, it's in your hands.
' Questioner: Sadhguru Namaste.
Sadhguru what is cosmic will and what is free will?
Is free will same as cosmic will or is there anything like cosmic which is
predestined?
Sadhguru: What you call as cosmic will is not will as you know it,
as human will, as your mind's will.
It has a certain pattern, it has a certain quality.
That which rules the cosmos has a certain… a consciousness and a tendency of its own.
That is always there, that you and me right now exist is cosmic
will, but right now,
you decided to come to sathsang is of course your will, isn't it?
Isn't it so?
So cosmic will is not like a decision.
It is just there.
It is because of cosmic will, we have taken on this form.
It is because of cosmic will, the planet is going around the sun.
These are not as human thoughts are; this is just the quality of the nature.
Right now, water flows from a high place to a low place.
Try to stop it whichever way you want.
It seems to have a will of its own, but that is not a will;
it is flowing according to the laws of gravity.
So cosmic will is like the gravitational force and various other things.
It just is there always.
It only acts that way because the very framework of life is based
on the cosmic will, but today you decide to do this or that,
that is definitely your will.
Cosmic will has no role in this, but you can use the cosmic force to make it
make your will into a reality.
Right now gravitational force is working, using that I am sitting here,
otherwise I would be floating all over the place.
Yes?
I would need an anchor to stay here.
Because gravity is working I am enjoying sitting here,
otherwise using the same gravity I can dance.
It's my will.
Sitting is my will, dancing is my will.
If I want, I can jump down, that is also my will,
but all these things cannot happen without the gravity.
That's the nearest analogy we can get there probably.
So cosmic will is always in play, we are enjoying it every moment of our life
or we are suffering it sometimes.
The gravity can make you dance, the gravity can make you fall if you're
not in tune with it.
So that is where your will plays.
Your will determines and your will is able to use the cosmic will.
Without that your will wouldn't even exist.
It is cosmic will that you must have a will, but do not try to fulfill your life through
your will because your will is generally empowered by
a thought and your thought is essentially an accumulated
stuff.
Your thought is what you have gathered from around you.
It's the data that you have gathered that you're reprocessing,
recycling in so many different ways.
Doing things with willpower is okay if you are aiming for small little things.
Today morning you want to get up at 5.00 o'clock, you're doing it with willpower or alarm
power?
(Laughter) If the alarm rings also,
you still need willpower to come out of your bed.
If you do this, you may get to do things, but at the end of the day you will have a
long face.
Instead of trying to do this with willpower, you do it with devotion,
you do it with love.
Now I want to get up at 5.00 o'clock because I have something that I really want
to do.
Not that I have to do this, there's nothing in my life that I have to
do.
Everything in my life are things that I want to do.
So if alarm is at 5.00 o'clock, I get up at 4.30,
because I want to do it.
If you conduct your life as I have to do it, because that's willpower.
'Oh, no matter what I must do it, I must do it, I must do it!'
You may get to do it, but your face will become long, miserable
face.
Everything happened, but at the end of the day you have a long
face; purpose is defeated, isn't it?
The purpose of doing all that is already been defeated.
Isn't it so?
Because you did not enjoy it, it does not fulfill you, what is the point?
So there is no need to do things to conduct your life with willpower.
Here and there small things, sometimes when your body is aching,
on that day you need willpower to push yourself a little bit,
but do not try to conduct the life process itself with willpower
because you will become a long successful face.
Ulcer in your stomach, success in your bag,
face so long nobody wants to see it or your chin will be scraping on the Hyderabad
roads.
(Laughter) Not good,
because I have a cushion; what will you do?
(Laughter)
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét