Monday, March 19, 2018

Whatever you do is preordained.


Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
“Illusion”

Now you cannot intellectually say, "I do not believe I am the body, therefore the world doesn't exist for me, I can do anything I like." 

This will never work. 
As long as you feel you are alive as a human being then no matter how intellectual you will say to yourself, "This world does not exist," it will exist. 
Do not make that mistake.

 Believing that the world does not exist.
 For some people tell me if the world does not exist they can do anything they like. I can rob a bank. I can kill people. It doesn't matter nothing exists. 

Of course the answer is, if nothing exists you wouldn't be talking like this.

 If you really were aware that nothing exists, the world does not exist, you would be silent. 
There would be absolutely nothing for you to say because you do not exist either.

Therefore who is asking this question?
 As far as preordination is concerned this is a truth for the ajnani. 

For a human being who is steeped in ignorance of the world. 

And you can tell yourself if you are or you're not by the way the world affects you. 

If you become depressed, discouraged, angry, upset. 
You think there is something wrong somewhere. 

You look at the world situation, you worry, you're upset over it. This means that you believe you are the body and you are going through experiences on this earth. Therefore this world does exist for you. It is very real never think it's not. 

And everything in your life is preordained, predestined. 
Therefore do not believe that you can do anything you like. 
Whatever you do is preordained.

Do not concern yourself whether you're going to do anything wrong or right. 

You are just one of the many actors on the stage of life.

 Everybody has come here to play a role, so-to-speak. 

Some people have to be the good guys, some people have to be the bad guys. 

This is the reason we never judge anybody. 

This is the reason you should never call anybody evil or bad. 

It is really a role that they're playing. 

And a person on the path of Jnana does not judge anybody or anything. 

They leave everything alone. 
They observe it, they watch it. 

Come to no conclusions. 
Good and bad is out of their vocabulary. 
Right and wrong has been transcended. 
This happens before you become fully enlightened. 

There is absolutely nothing wrong in this whole universe least of all yourself. 
You no longer worry about yourself. 
For even though you still feel you are a piece of the body you understand that there is a grand bliss, a joy, an absolute reality that you can call God that takes care of you completely and totally when you surrender completely and totally to the source.

So you see you do not have to look after your life. 
You do not have to watch what you eat or watch where you go or watch what you do. 

For whatever you eat, wherever you go, whatever you do is the right thing for you at the moment. 
It is where you're supposed to be. 
You are where you're supposed to reap. 
Everything is in its right place. 
If you learn to have faith like this you will grow. 

But if you keep believing I am the doer and I have to make things happen, otherwise nothing will happen and I will fall apart, then you will be making things happen all of your life. 

There will always be something to make happen. It will never end. 

Yet this is also your role that you have to play here on this earth. 
This is the destiny that's yours. 
To do what you're doing right now.

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