Aurobino's religious thoughts (a clarification)

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Namaste,

 

advaitin, "Chittaranjan Naik"

<chittaranjan_naik> wrote:

 

> In this respect, I would think that the jivan-mukta's actions

> are the Will of God Himself just as an avatara's actions are,

 

 

I would like to provide a clarification regarding the use of term 'in

accordance with the Will of God'. It seems to indicate that there are

things in accordance with the Will of God and there are other things

that are not in accordance with the Will of God. It was not meant in

that way. There is of course nothing that is not in accordance with the

Will of God. Being in accordance or in discordance with the Will of God

is merely the schism that the jiva sees in the One Will of God.

 

While I would not like to get involved in a free-will vs determinism

debate at this point, I am of the opinion that much of the problems

posed by the free-will vs determinism debate arises from the

formulation of the question itself. I do not believe that free-will and

determinism are opposed to each other as they apply to a jiva in

samsara. The free-will of the jiva is the freedom of God's will to the

limited extent that it appears in the limited clearing of the jiva's

consciousness. And the things that are brought forth in this world over

which the jiva has no control are, as far as the jiva is concerned,

deterministically determined. This world that has been

deterministically determined outside of the jiva's free-will is brought

forth from the jiva's own past actions. It is the other half of the

jiva's actions as seen in the Dharma Chakra. But the jivan-mukta is

free because he has achieved freedom from actions by the fire of his

Knowledge, and he is thus free from being trapped in the Chakra. Sri

Shankaracharya says that all his past actions which have so far not

begun to bear fruit are dissolved in the realisation of Oneness, and

those of his past actions that have already begun to bear fruit

(prarabda karma) shall run themselves out like an arrow that has

already been released and must soon come to rest.

 

Warm regards,

Chittaranjan