Iccha Sakti (The Power of Will)

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mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Will Power to Sage Narada. Extract from t

mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;

mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt">he Chhandogya Upanishad : Will, which is creative

in its character, is superior to ordinary thought. When there is a will or a

determined activity of the psychological organ, there arises the general

thinking of the mind. Then follows the expression thereof by means of speech.

Everything that we utter or recite or chant is a form of speech. And the

quintessence of speech in its most sacred form is the body of mantras in the

Vedas. The mantras contained in the texts called Brahmanas in the Vedas direct

men to specified actions by means of injunctions. The mantras are like fire,

great forces of directive intelligence. The

mantras imply within themselves indications as to how they are to be utilised in

a particular performance. So, actions which lead to specific results and the

consequent experiences in life are all rooted in the hints given in the mantras

themselves, which are specified modes of the expression of speech, which again

is rooted in the mind, which in its turn is directed by the will, the creative

intelligence. So, this is the gradation given so far. Everything is rooted

in the will, ultimately. Will is a general term which comprehends within itself

any kind of specified intention, whether it works internally in the individual's

personality or externally in nature. Here, the Upanishad tells us that

everything has a specific intention behind its very existence itself. Even the

five elements - space, air, fire, water and earth - are but specified forms of

an ultimate creative will. Their manifestations in different intensities and

the differences in the intensities of their manifestations are due to the

differentiating character which is inherent in each of these elements. That

differentiating character is the will hidden behind them. The will to be, the

will to live, the will to exist, the will to maintain individuality is the

power which distinguishes one element from the other. Otherwise, there would be

a merger of the elements and one element would not be different from the other.

There is nothing in this world, in all creation, which is free from a

self-assertive will, a self-determining

power. So, 'will' is a universal power. Anything that asserts itself in a

particular manner is called 'will'. This self-assertive nature is found in

every atom of creation, in the heaven and the earth, in the wind and the space,

in fire and water and in their further modifications, in our own bodies such as

the working of the pranas and their further motivations like the recitation of

mantras which, as has been pointed out already, become responsible for the

actions that we do and the results that follow therefrom. The whole world,

therefore, is rooted in will. The world is will in generality as well as in

particularity. In certain forms of generality, the will becomes a content of

our awareness. When it becomes too general, as in the will of God, for

instance, it is not the content of our mind. However, the will is behind

everything. Sivaya Namah

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