Schahin

Why did Ramana Maharshi say that our lives are predetermined?

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Why? 

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To help you realize there is a higher power that functions through beings in a way that is beyond your personal will.

But at the same time, there is your experience of personal will also.

He knew you couldn't really speak about this, in a fundamentally true way, and said so himself.

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Maybe because everything already exist every possibility of you in every scenario is already there. And i guess u jump through realities according to your emotions,feelings and thoughts.


I will be waiting here, For your silence to break, For your soul to shake,              For your love to wake! Rumi

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Because, from the Turiyatita state, every other possible timeline is dissolved and only the Divine Will arises. Other timelines arise out of free will, other timelines are maya.

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1 hour ago, Serotoninluv said:

@Schahin Why don’t you ask him? ? 

I think he died. 

Basically I asked this question here because I wonder how he said such a thing but the discussion about nonduality here are more that it is not determined and god creates it every moment and the future is not certain yet

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@Schahin I know. I gave a nondualish answer. . . Hmmm. . . something nondualish sounds nice for Halloween. . . 

Below is a summary of Maharshi’s talks on feee will and determinism. This may help to explain what he meant.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/selfrealization.home.blog/2018/10/12/ramana-maharshi-on-free-will-and-destiny/amp/

Maharshi seems to acknowledge human constructs and points to the transcendence of those constructs in the realization of “I”. 

To me, it seems a nondual perspective is Now. Appearances occur Now, including thoughts of past and future. A singular one happening. A dualistic perspective would focus on movements through time, causes and effects, subjects and objects. Yet ultimately, nondual vs dual is itself a duality that also collapses. 

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Why are everyone so islamic? Haha 

I had this with @khalifa sometime ago. 

On Free Will & Divine Determining

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This is from "The Words" by Said Nursi. It is quite a famous book. The first part of his Quranic commentary series. 

There are fourteen or twelve books in total if i'm not mistaken. 

Risale-i Nūr Collection. 

 

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