On Mar 1, 8:26 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry RP I can't get with that at all, as you well know by now. > > A persons nature is not static but moves as the person does. It is > possible to shake of the products of an 'early envirmonent', hence we > have so many atheists from religious households. > > Do we all act within the scope of Gods will?
I know I don't show up here as often as most of you - life is pretty busy! But I like to follow the conversations and when I have time to throw in my two cents. So here is my two cents for today! I agree with Rigs and Lee here; you both have expressed my thought quite well. RP when you quote the BG you are referring, of course to a different "I", a different actor than the "I" we normally experience ourselves to be. Are you making that distinction? The "I" of which we are conscious of being is the individualized limited ego-self. Do you believe in the unlimited divine Self, the atman which is the same as Brahman, the unqualified absolute Reality? When that "I" acts it is naturally always in concert with the nature of the infinite Truth and therefore there is only one will. However I believe our discussion is about our commonly experienced "I" which chooses in the context of the realm of duality along with all the other experienced perceived "I"s of everyone else. Until we achieve realization we experience ourselves as the individualized ego-self which is, as Lee has noted, and as Hindu and Buddhist teachings point out, conditioned by our past choices, our circumstances, and the conflicting desires of all the others around us. Which is what I believe Lee is saying?
