--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Thank you for posting this because it has helped crystallize some > > insights. Even though we may be ending up at quite opposite, or at > > least distance, shores from on another.
[snip] > You've extended the subject considerably, I was commenting primarily > in the context of Yoga, though I think the same essential truths are > expressed in different languages, etc. thru time as they are universal > truths. > > I think your comment "One can't try to be good" is very detrimental to > your spiritual progress as God has given you *free will*, which > ensures that you can indeed try to be good, and be successful at it > too, I might add! > > If you decide the admonitions of Patanjali are too archaic for you to > follow and decide to forgo all proscriptions and prescriptions of > Religion, that is your choice, but the laws of karma adjust cause and > effect just the same! Life is about choices....... Guru Dev [SBS] surely spoke extensively of the importance of doing right and not wrong.
