Guest guest Posted July 1, 2002 Report Share Posted July 1, 2002 A will is free only so long as it has not acted. Once it acts, then that very act becomes binding on it. The second time it acts, it does not act as a free will, but as a "calculating will", for it carries the experience of the first act with it. And a cal- culating will is not a free will, but a limited will. The very creations or acts of a free will work as limiting factors upon it and guide it in its future activity. So, the more experiences one has, the more his will is guided and thus limited. And this is real predestination. There is thus no antagonism between predestina- tion, fate, karma, and free will. We were free at one time. We acted, and then our acts became binding upon us. They curtailed our initial freedom. They now act upon us as unavoidable fate. Since our experiences have become complex and varied, these experiences now appear in us as joys and fears, hopes and desires, each of which in its turn moulds or fashions our reason and intellect. Intellect, reason and feeling, being what they have been fashioned to be, now determine our actions and make us choose the predestined course. Thus the acts of one life determine the framework of the next life. Like farmers, we are now living on the crop we gathered last, while we are preparing the soil and putting in the seed of the new crop. Al- though we must undergo our fate, there being no escape from it, yet all is not lost if we use the little freedom we have in such a manner as to lead to our ultimate rescue. SAT-01 ----------------- SAT - Sat Sandesh, the Message of the Masters - 01 - July 1972, p. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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