Do We Have Control Over Our Lives

We are carried away by ideas including religious-spiritual as if there is some secret which will ...

An episode of the Fundamental Expressions podcast, hosted by Y V Chawla, titled "Do We Have Control Over Our Lives" was published on October 30, 2019 and runs 13 minutes.

October 30, 2019 ·13m · Fundamental Expressions

Summary

We are carried away by ideas including religious-spiritual as if there is some secret which will give control of our lives to us and we can enjoy stability, stable relief, stable pleasure and so on. Instead, can we be pragmatic and see the format of life. Things do not happen as you wish. Thoughts, apprehensions do come to your mind, which you do not like. It means the ‘wishing entity’ is not in control. It means ‘wishing’ and ‘happening’ are related in a frictional mode. Can we bear this friction without any explanation? Every moment, two possibilities exist. Something ‘you want may happen. It may not happen’. One begins to fight way, cover up, undo, adjust with the possibility of ‘may not happen’. Your energy is dissipated in fighting away this possibility. Can you see the futility of fighting away this possibility arising in your mind? You are on the total ground. Now your will, what you want becomes clear. Instead of feeling the uneasiness any problem creates within us, we seek diversion by fanciful ideas like, it is all one’s fate, future will be alright, God will take care and so on or we seek relief by entertainment, intoxications to bypass the feeling of uneasiness. To become aware of the diversion is to stop it. Now you and the world is seen as one process. You are held in a no escape position in respect of what is happening, what you face. You begin to see 'what is True'.

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