Dear Snip,
You remind me of an article I had written on this aspect long long ago.
One is on a boat in a fast moving stream of the life. The direction and the speed of the stream
is the inherited condition of the mind. As long as we are only listening to the mind and acting, we are child of destiny. Where the destiny takes us, we go.
But this hardly happens in human birth.
Fortunately the person is also given a paddle to steer. But the size of that paddle depends upon the reflected consciousness intensity and the inherited characteristics. The more clogged is the mind, the smaller is the paddle and vice versa.
This paddle is the ablity of the intellect to rule over the mind or take decision beyond the mind. This we do. may be less when we are young and more when we mature. Then again it varies hugely from person to person. There are cases by which one guides himself to the bank of bliss and there are cases where one guides himself to the bank of dungeon. It all depends how we use the intellect paddle.
That is why you will find that the initial journey on the spiritual path is tedious, confusing, directionless and sometimes chaotic. This constitutes of most of the people. But as they get into the knowledge part of the spiritual journey, the paddle becomes bigger and the ability to steer becomes better and the goal is achieved faster.
So the destiny is in our hand. That we have given the ability to choose is the proof that we decide our destiny.
Again as a society if the boat is having many humans the fate is decided by which side the numbers are more. If the dungeon side is more then there will be a need for a bigger paddle on the bliss side to balance and guide to bliss side. This is when avatar come into the sansar.
The theory of creation is too big and complex to contain in a single writeup. But we can do some justice to it through connected writeups.
Let us continue.
Love and best wishes
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