DESTINY IS AND DESTINY IS NOT

DESTINY means unwinding. Unwinding of all that which is not you, which is not integral to you but that which you gathered from outside. Why so? Because what is integral to us, which we know as consciousness, is pure and without any inputs from outside. It’s only when the consciousness is clouded with inputs from outside that it takes a physical form. Pure consciousness, on the other hand, which is without any blemish is not bound to take a physical form. 

A physical form like a body, thus, is nature’s arrangement to unwind and clean the consciousness of all the information or impressions taken from outside. The existence wants us to become free of all these impressions so that we can return back to our source.  Consciousness is our source which is pure and free of all the impressions. Once a consciousness becomes free of all the impressions then it merges back with the existence and never returns in a physical form. Being free from physical existence is what is known as freedom; liberation or ‘mukti’. Being in a physical form is bondage. The consciousness when in a physical form is known as ‘atman’ or subtle body or ‘jivatama’. But when the same ‘ataman’ is cleaned of all the impressions it merges with what we know as ‘parmataman’ or simply the existence. 

The impressions or information which need to be unwound or reversed are traditionally known as ‘karma’. The amount of ‘karma’ which requires to be reversed in this physical form or body which we are in now, is referred to as our destiny. That’s why the existence provides a suitable physical form which facilitates this unwinding of destiny. Destiny is also referred to as ‘prarbdha’ or installment of ‘karma’ which needed to be completed in this life. Thus destiny also means this life. 

Destiny is of the body. Because that’s why the body. Once the destiny or ‘prarbdha’ is finished the ‘ataman’ leaves this physical form which we know as death. Thus body or physical form means there is destiny to work out and if there is destiny then there would be a suitable physical form to work this out. Body and destiny exist together. 

Though destiny is of the body but the Self has no destiny. The Self which is the underlying substratum of everything in this existence is always pure and as it is, free of all the impressions. Thus if you identify with the destiny i.e. with the body-mind then you have a destiny. Being identified with the destiny is living your life in identification with body-mind. This living in identification of the body is known as living your life as an ego. This is ignorance because such living is to live in identity with the unreal. But if you distance yourself from your destiny which is to become a witness to the actions of your body and mind then you have no destiny. Maintaining distance is to be alert to the actions of your body and mind which is what meditation is. Meditation means not to be identified with the activities of your body and mind which is not to identify with your destiny but remaining as a witness to all that happen within and without. Witness or simply presence or simply being is to be established in the Self which is our reality. Knowing our true identity is knowledge or what we know as Self-realization.

Simply being is to be in tune with the existence or to become the existence itself. Simply being is what we know as surrender – surrender to the original cause of this existence. Living in body-consciousness or as ego is to be separate from the existence. Ego means individuality or your own agenda. 

 To be free of the physical existence is liberation. For that the only thing which you need to do is not to get identified with your destiny but to become a watcher to unfolding of your destiny. Being a watcher means knowing that you are not the originator of your actions but knowing that these actions are coming from your destiny. On the other hand, if you think to be the originator of your actions (of body and mind) you get identified or attached with them and thus you remain in bondage. That’s the only difference between being a spiritual and being a materialist. A materialist or worldly means to be identified with the body or physical. Spiritual means being in touch with that dimension which is non-physical; which is transcendental.  

What we know as death, is not a release from physical existence. Death is only transient or temporary release from physical existence. Soon, you are back in another physical form because the ‘jivatma’ has not been cleaned of all the impressions. Impressions or karma is the basis or reason of physical existence.

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