"Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on."
-- Robert Tew
Advaita is against “free will.”
For a “will” to be an actuality, there would have to be an entity that wills. Advaita politely asks, “What part about BRAHMAN don’t you understand?”
One means one. Don’t be trying to hammer a two into this deal. All expressions fall short when identity is being defined. Even the sacred holy perfect “I am” is baseless blasphemy in the face of the unity of BRAHMAN.
Even to assume that BRAHMAN has will is to assert threeness. As if there were a will, a willed and a willer. Nope.
Proof, you ask? You want an avalanche of logic, right? You want me to start with axiomatic utter truth and then build the syllogism? No problem. That’s all the scriptures of Advaita Vedanta! Duh! — just waiting for you to read. You want sussing. There’s the suss. I’m not kidding. Just you try to find a flaw in their statements.
And then the ancients tell you, “Don’t bother reading all this. Just transcend, wuddjajust? The intellect isn’t going to set you free. These words are for entertainment purposes only. Only realization matters. Only dissolving into BRAHMAN will satisfy any intellect’s need for clarity or any heart’s longing for communion.”
When Lord Brahma was first born, He tried to get clear about the Lotus Stalk. We know how that turned out. He had to quit. Then He tried to create. Didn’t. And then He got advice from beyond. “Tapas.” Translation: “Give up! Retire from being God. Surrender. Let that which must become become. Get out of the way.” And so He did just that, and creation began. This is Advaita’s lesson on “will.”
Lord Brahma took one for the team.
Had to learn the hard way — had to fail and so to teach.
Two — the first sin.
So Advaita says, “Transcend. Realize BRAHMAN. Get out of the person business. Get out of the way. What’s to do is not your concern.”
So, next time you feel a need to think, when there’s a thought just sitting there waiting for you to think it, when all you need is one more thought to tide you over, remember Lord Brahma.
Because, well, ya got trouble, my friend, right here
I say, trouble right here in Doer City
We are addicted to do, doo and due;
Doers do doo-doo due to two.
It’s the stink of being a you.
And you rhymes with do.
Right here in Doer City
Do with a capital D
And D rhymes with P.
And that stands for pool!
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Hehehehe. They’re actually not wrong, they’re just forgetting that dissolving into Brahman is not complete enlightenment yet. Transcend into Brahman, yes, but Brahman itself must be transcended, also. Then the question of free will becomes moot. ;)
Getting attached to name, fame, identify, attachment, status , wisdom , Brahman— nothing ness, just energy, say it solute, soluble, solution— ??? Atoms, something deeper than proton. Nothing. No language, logic, relative truth ? Just a feeling of fullfillment— to have an easy existential flow.
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