Sri Bhagavan - Teaching on Comparison
(Comparing
Ourselves with Others)
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Comparison is essentially sourced in non-acceptance of
one's life, parents, body, capabilities or thoughts and emotions.
In resisting the fact and trying to be something that
you are not, you suffer from destructive emotions like anger, jealously,
hatred, frustration which in turn leads to failure of intelligence.
All problems rise with the failure of intelligence. It
is acceptance that liberates you and how does one arrive at acceptance? It is not about understanding,
explaining or justifying the situation, but to experience the pain behind it.
As you experience the unresolved emotions that are
attached to the situation, all resistance dissolves and you naturally embrace
the fact.
This inner acceptance leads to awakening of
intelligence and the inferiority complex would naturally disappear.
Time for Reflection:
On what basis, do you compare with others?
Do you suffer from inferiority or superiority complex?
What are your compulsive responses?
Hold a prayer in your heart that you must be blessed
with inner acceptance.
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Sri Bhagavan - Free Will or Divine Will
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Question: Bhagavan, do things
happen according to our will or according to divine will?
Answer: Truth is a
many-storied structure. If you were to look at it from the ground floor it
would look different than if you were to look at it from the 94th
floor.
The experience of reality depends on one's level of consciousness.
For the one who is God-realized and is awakened, what exists is only the
presence of God. The decision is God, the decision-making is God. Hence, the
question of a free will does not arise at all.
The one in an ordinary state of consciousness is stuck
in three illusions: the illusion
of the self, the illusion of separateness and the illusion of freedom.
Caught up in such illusions, one experiences duality
as the me and the not me, as man and God, and free will and divine will.
Those caught up in an illusion of a separate entity
can react to situations in many ways. When things go the way they desire they
often believe it is because of their effort and free will. When things do not
go the way they desire they often blame it on the divine will.
These people would see free will and divine will,
automate in life, though the percentage of the illusion of free will varies
from person to person.
There are those who see there is choice where one can
exercise control and turn the direction of life according to one's desire. For
them divine will would appear an illusion.
In moments when life seems out of control, there are
people who refuse to flow and are inclined to blame others and God. They
usually have a tendency to quit, compromise or go into depression.
The universe basically is unpredictable because the
universe is a living thing and it is changing from moment to moment.
When one sees life is beyond their control, surrender
to the divine with acceptance would be wisdom.
