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on this fact and they advise directing the free will in the right channel. Find

out to whom free will or destiny matters. Find out where they come from, and

abide in their source. If you do this, both of them are transcended. That is

the only purpose of discussing these questions. To whom do these questions

arise? Find out and be at peace. Question: If what is destined to happen will

happen, is there any use in prayer or effort or should we just remain idle?

0cm"> Sri Ramana Maharshi: There are only two ways to conquer destiny or be

independent of it. One is to enquire for whom is this destiny and discover that

only the ego is bound by destiny and not the Self, and that the ego is

non-existent. The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to

the Lord, by realising one’s helplessness and saying all the time, ‘Not I but

Thou, O Lord’, giving up all sense of "I" and ‘mine’ and leaving it to the Lord

to do what He likes with you. Surrender can never be regarded as complete so

long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord. True surrender is love of

God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even

for the sake of liberation. In other words, complete effacement of the ego is

necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through

self-enquiry or through Bhakti Marga (path of devotion). Sivaya Namah

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