History/reality betrays this concept of God as a unifying force even interested in the affairs/plight of humanity and creation. It's all myth. Our behavior adjusts to self-interest and survival very quickly after birth. I do pray, but to what I do not know- it could be I pray to Luck or Fortune- yet I do expect some form of consciousness to appreciate my humor and woes- someone just turned off the applause machine! :-)
On Feb 9, 3:35 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Whichever way you look at it the fact is that this world and > everything in it is an illusion because everything is predetermined by > God and nothing is permanent and merges with God and loses all > individual identity. That freedom to act which moves along a > predetermined course is not actually a freedom but an illusion as > such. Still the fact remains that as far as we are concerned we are > free and accountable to ourselves and others for whatever we do as we > are the agents. But it is a cool thought that knowing our bondage we > shouldn't be proud of our achievements and depressed about our > failure , rather we should act with a coolness of purpose and not look > down upon our less fortunate brethren. Ever acting to the best of our > abilities in a spirit of Yoga we should surrender all our actions to > God. > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:56 AM, ornamentalmind > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, the act of concluding that one isn’t “doing” anything and it is > > all God’s “doing” is an illusion? > > > On Feb 8, 8:23 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> God is not someone sitting on a cloud and watching Rigsy reading > >> Tolstoy , Allan talking about being part of God , RP talking about > >> Non-Duality again and again in different words , He is the Inner Force > >> which is making it all happen. And if we feel that we are doing > >> whatever we do , that's the illusion.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
