Your Will and The Gods' Will

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invoked for the preservation of the personal ego. This is willfulness, not free

will. Free will is total, intelligent cooperation, total merging of the

individual mind with that of another, or of a group. Those who only in

appearance are cooperative, good employees rarely show their resistance. They

hold it within, and day after day, year after year, it begins tearing them

apart. Stress builds up that no remedy can cure. In religious life, we must

have prapatti twenty-four hours a day, which means getting rid of our

resistance. There are various forms of free will. There is free will of the

ego, or the instinctive mind, there is free will of the intellect that has been

educated in

dharma, and there is free will of the intuition. For many, free will is an

expression of the little ego, which often entangles them more in the world of

maya. For me, true free will means the dharmic will that is divine and guided

by the Superconscious. In reality, only this kind of will makes you free.

Hindus with Western education, or who were raised and taught in Christian

schools, whether they have accepted the alien religion or not, find it very

difficult to acknowledge within their own being the existence of the

Gods, because the West primarily emphasizes the external, and the East

emphasizes the internal. Thoroughly immersing oneself in the external world

severs man's awareness from his psychic ability to perceive that which is

beyond the sight of his two eyes. You might ask how you can love something

you cannot see. Yet, the Gods can be and are seen by mature souls through an

inner perception they have awakened. This psychic awakening is the first

initiation into religion. Every Hindu devotee can sense the Gods, even if he

cannot yet inwardly see them. This is possible through the subtle feeling

nature. He can feel the presence of the Gods within the temple, and he can

indirectly see their influence in his

life.' ------------------------Satguru Sivaya

Subramuniyaswami Sivaya Namah

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