Moment to Speak

Fate is preordained, fixed, and set by Supreme Being without any deviation whatsoever. Fate is preordained, immutable, and merely the consequence of our past actions without any variation, asserts Yoga-Vasistha (2.6.1). It is feasible to detach from it and liberate oneself from its constraints by engaging in virtuous companionship and the study of sacred scriptures. Simply put, destiny is the result of an already exercised freedom of choice, also known as free will (William Kingsland, Rational Mysticism, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1924, p.353).Time along with space is a projection of Cosmic Self, states sage philosopher Swami Krishnananda . He goes on to say that the Absolute Existence, or the Cosmic Self, appears to be engaged—in an act of externalising itself—and space and time are only names for the force of externalisation. Time is an active potency in the past, present, and future as part of cyclic processes of creation, growth, decay, dissolution, and reincarnation as part ...

Time is pervasive, invisible, indescribable, and incomprehensible to a being who is a very participant in the structure of this phenomenal world. That put a limitation on his intellectuality, as that is involved in the structure of the externality of his being. To understand at a miniscule level, one needs to transcend from particularity to universality by expanding his consciousness to the level of universal. It can be initiated by contemplation from outward to inward based on meditation or yoga. Time, according to Ramana Maharshi , is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge (Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realising Abiding Peace and Happiness, Ramana Maharshi, Munagala Venkataramiah). Sage philosopher Swami Krishn...

Every being in the phenomenal world cannot remain idle even for a moment without doing some activity, whether physical or mental, manifest or unmanifest. Self-action, or self-effort, is basic to a being's trajectory of existence momentum. Is there any destiny in the trajectory of existence? The Yoga-Vasistha categorically invalidates the concept and belief in destiny. It claims that destiny has no form, act, motion, or might, but is merely a myth perpetuated by stupid people. It is a word that has gained popularity from the concept of future retribution for one's previous actions, or retributive justice, and the like, which is known as "destiny." If the idea of destiny differs from that of an agent, it must signify something else; if it is the same as the agent, why give it a new name like destiny? If it is proven to be an imagined phrase, it is preferable to consider one's exertion as the agent of one's actions. As a past misdeed is remedied by a good acti...

Existence is one only that is the basic premise, or conception, that we know, that we do not know, or that we are not capable of knowing. It's because our existences are embodied, finite, and conditioned by time, space, and causation. Whereas Existence is Plenum, Absolute, Infinite, Eternal, Imperishable, Immutable, and Immanent, as well as Transcendent, Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss), Complete, Full, Nirakara (formless), Nirguna (qualityless), and Nirvisesa (attributeless), and unconditioned by time, space, and causation. We can at best strive to realise, but that realisation cannot be expressed as expression involves identification through medium of parts. We as part cannot express the Whole, or created cannot describe the creator. The fact is that we are in forms that are subject to limited adjuncts of birth, growth, decay, death, dissolution, reincarnation, and so on. If that is so, forms are facts in a state of flux, objectification, and finitude of the ...