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NagoyaSea
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 Posted - Mar 27 2007 : 8:48:53 PM
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I read something by Merideth Young this weekend:
"While there is choice as to the specifics that will fill each life, there is no choice as to whether one will or will not ultimately progress.
All energy moves forward toward perfection and completion, and therefore life as it is known to each moves forward allowing the opportunity for mental, emotional, physical and spiritual experiences to shatter personal illusion by seeing the reality of the total being.
It is, after all, not each soul’s choice to begin this process of personal evolution, but God’s. Each elemental energy is like a sponge placed in a puddle of ink, consciously and superconsciously absorbing all things. Yet where is the conscious memory of the motion that placed each in the puddle in the beginning? It often appears as only a vague sense of connectedness, slipping in and out of the cloud-cover of physical life, pulling each in spite of himself toward the inevitable union with God.
There often seems no concrete sense of this wondrous awareness, yet when the fabric has been completed and taken from the loom of life, then will each know as the shrouds are dropped that the search for God is the undeniable essence of creation that underscores the workings of the Universe. There is free choice only to the extent of choosing the colors and fabrics that will be used within each physical life. There is no free choice as to whether or not one will weave the fabric. All creation weaves a fabric---a fabric of dynamics which defines life for each soul in terms of true reality…. Divinity is ultimately for all….” Meridith Young
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Doc
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Posted - Mar 27 2007 : 9:12:50 PM
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Namaste Nagoya!
Ramana Maharshi often said "there is neither destiny, nor free will". He explained that once one experiences the fullness of Self-Realization, and thereafter continuously abides in the 'Original Nature of the Self', there is no longer anything to be either liberated from or bound to since one's destiny is then completed and all ego attachments have already been discarded. Thus, nothing remains to be 'freely willed' as unfulfilled destiny one way or the other!  
Hari OM!
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