Several people who are on a spiritual path seeking salvation, enlightenment, Nirvana don’t realize that the attainment of it ultimately depends on the Lord’s will, that power we call God. It is His grace that finally decides whether we are able to cross over, get freedom, liberation, moksh, mukti or not. And the only way to attain this liberation is through complete surrender.
When we realize that we are the divine spirit and not this body, when we realize that this whole world is nothing but a manifestation of the Lord, when we realize that we should not be attached to the world, but seek God, realize God, realize the power within, realize the power everywhere - we start living as the spirit, the soul.
Even though we start living as the soul we are still not enlightened, nor do we get salvation, because we are still in the body. The body belongs to the earth. It is only with the grace of God that the body finally drops and the soul unites with the over soul. Remember, this is entirely up to the grace of the Master, it’s not our will at all.
Therefore, the way to the Master, to God is through surrender - surrendering joyously to the divine will; realizing the truth that whatever happens is because of the will of God and not trying to impose our own will.
To conclude, there is only one way to nirvana, to enlightenment and that way is through surrender. Have deep devotion, deep aspiration for God and let that devotion be blessed by the grace of God, which finally takes us to the so-called heaven to become one with God.
If the whole world is nothing but a manifestation of the Lord, then so is my body. Spirit vs flesh religious ideas have caused untold problems for us humans. We are one with God. but have forgotten it because of ego. That (ego) is what has to be surrendered in order to achieve heightened spiritual awareness.
Interesting argument, since there is no such thing as free will, ultimately the outcome of life is not really able to be changed and you can’t escape your fate. Since there is no free will, if you end up in heaven or hell like scenarios is really not your fault, since “you” are just an observer attached to a machine.
… What is there to surrender too? I am supposed to just trust your claims that there is something there? From how the world looks and feels, how it is and has been, you’re wrong.
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Please explain how grace and free will are incompatible.
I am mind, body and spirit–a trinity. Only as a trinity can I expect to become one with all that is.
AiR is egoless and free…he does not need to satisfy his ego-based need in participating and interacting with other beings in conversations. He is only but the messenger, a traveling evangelist, he would not dare dabble in such hedonistic pursuits as human interaction.
To having no fear of death
To accepting objective truth
To the need for peace of mind
To the acquisition of knowledge
To accept any consciousness raising
To accepting that life has no meaning
To not comparing oneself to anyone else
To the work in progress of I as moral being
To accepting eternal peace comes with death
To accepting that the universe has no meaning
To be free to consider any philosophical position
To avoid popular positions just for the sake of them
To accept without reservation all moral responsibility
To becoming less emotional and more logical over time
To treat being right and being wrong as neutral positions
To accepting in principle everything I know could be wrong
To being as free as is humanly possible while still being alive
To accepting the complete atomisation of all human existence
