Dilemma

[Guest guest]

Namaste all. Please consider the following

situation:<br><br>Assume you are low on money and pray for relief from the

stresses brought on by financial burdens. You pray for

guidance to make the right financial choices too.

<br><br>You are leaving work one day and you find $40 in the

parking lot. You pick up the money, go inside, and ask

around to see if anyone has lost money. No one around

has lost any money, so you put the money in your

pocket.<br><br>Do you give some of the money to a charity or keep

100% of it for yourself? Do you keep it and spend it

on groceries and bills because you need it? Or do

you assume it wasn't yours to begin with and give

some back to someone that *really* needs it? Has The

Divine answered your prayers? Or are you just lucky?

<br><br>OM Shanti<br><br>Erica

[Guest guest]

Erica,<br><br>In my opinion, you have done your

part to allow someone else to claim the money.

Consider the money the answer to the prayers you sent up;

be thankful; and use the money to supply your

needs!<br><br>I dont believe in "luck"; Yes the divine has

answered my prayers and if we trust the divine, all our

needs will be met.....long before we even know that we

have such needs.<br><br>vicki

[Guest guest]

you'd have to define lucky erica. It doesnt

pertain to causal law. My mom says do what is in your

heart. I wonder if a millionaire lost it he would claim

it, I would rather see someone in more need have use

of the money. If someone poor lost it I'm sure

they'd be looking. Perhaps it is good fortune to

consider it a favour of the supreme. Many people do~

[Guest guest]

It is the mechanical mind that tries so

diligently to arrange every happening on the coordinates of

time, naming one as the cause and the other

effect.<br>Similarily all things are 'looked' upon on the coordinates

of space as in near and far.<br><br>The minds of the

frontline scientists are flabbergast when faced with any

'funny' thing which does not conform to these rigid

frames of the mind, as in the case of dual theory of

matter's existence, as waves & as mass.<br><br>To sum up

all this mumbo-jumbo, <br>1)that $40 were found IS a

fact,<br>2)now these $40 surely will be utilised in some manner

indeed<br>3)the mind is already busy in arranging the events on

the coordinates of time as cause and effect, and will

continue to do so even after the $40 are done away

with<br>4)the mind HAS to 'understand' everything in this

manner because it itself is constituted of a sense of

time and space, hence is not to blame<br><br>5)is it

so difficult to grasp the idea that the fate of the

$40 is predetermined BEFORE even it was dropped in

the parking lot?<br><br>Once it was dropped and

found, its fate is absolutely predetermined like the

solidity of the past(conditioning) of the person picking

it up.<br>Though that person may have a sense of

choice here, but that is an illusion as long as the past

exists for him.<br>The apple is already cut with the

raising of the knife, it is only the minds endless

simplifications(or complications?) which terms one as before and the

other after ie. cause and effect.<br>Read somewhere,

"Effect is cause revealed and cause is effect concealed".

If both are essentially the same then what mischief

is the mind playing by this

fragmentation?<br><br><br>So then, what again was the question???<br>

regards really

[Guest guest]

really_i_am = really_i_am_lost lol

[Guest guest]

lol <br>yes, that seems to be a more

appropriate id<br><br><br>limits of logic do sound crazy at

first <br><br>fruits are often artificially ripened

hastily using esters, it is in better taste to just wait

for them to ripen in their own sweet time.<br><br>so

just really_i_am_waiting