Divine Will

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"Now the solution as Raghavji points out from the Gita

is to submit to the divine will and leave everything

to that Will."

 

I too struggled with making sense of the above idea in

real life. Shri Pandurang Shastri Athavle in one of

his lectures said a few things which helped me a lot.

The general framework is not to leave everything to

divine will for this quickly leads to escapism - I

have seen it in one of my friends. For this implies

that we think of God as someone who is constantly

poking around our affairs and meddling with our life

sometimes in a beneficial way, sometimes not. Simply

put, we are not so important for God to be constantly

paying attention to us. Rather, the general framework

should be that God , according to His Will, has given

us certain capabilities. And now, we must strive not

to bother Him too much and independantly proceed with

our duties in life. To realize this in practical life,

it becomes important to develop a relation of love and

devotion to a personal God.

 

Thus, when we are faced with an adverse circumstance,

we dont just let God take care of it for that is

"disturbing" God. Instead we try to tackle that

situation overselves.

 

Also, with any adverse problem (like the example of my

neighbour insulting me quoted by prof. VK ji.), there

is the real problem (say my dog does routinely pee in

his garden) and there is the problem as we perceive

it.(his kids make such a racket all the time that i

cant take my afternoon nap.. and this makes me so mad

and has consumed me to such an extent that my mind

doesnt even hear what he is saying) If we let our

emotions/ego get overtly in the way, we can never go

beyond the perceived problem to apprehend the real

situation. And so regular practice of the 5 yamas and

5 niyamas becomes essential.

 

-Mayuresh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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