So, I left the discussion last time with asking how can we realize the truth if we detach ourselves from everything in order to attach to the higher nature, and accept the guidance provided by the Manifestations of God. One could argue that our free will allow us to do that, but I will argue that if we don’t know what truth is, how is our free will going to recognize it? If you are blind, how are you going to tell light from darkness through free will? And this is where things get interesting. Detached from everything, we are to recognize the manifestation of God for the particular time we live in (as guidance will always be provided, progressively).

This can only happen if a) we examine things in life with a pure heart and motive and b) through assistance from God. The first part is not to be taken lightly. Think about it, anything we do we always have a motive for doing it, from learning to eating, meeting new people, working, basically anything. And the beauty is that only one can know one’s own true motives in their actions. So what happened in each time a prophet came? And this has always been the case, from Moses to Jesus to Muhammad and even further back, the clergy of the era before them always denied the new prophet and gave him hardships. Was it because of ignorance? Or was it simply because they had power over people and were not ready to give it up and hence they used this power to serve their purposes, i.e. their motivation were anything but pure.

So bottom line, if you are pure in your motives in anything you do, be it that you screw up, you will be fine, but only YOU know if your motivation is pure or not and no other human being can judge or tell your motivation.

Another interesting point regarding free will is the very definition of what society seems to define as free will, i.e. as long as I don’t hurt anyone I should be able to do what I want. Is that really free will? Or is giving into empty desires anything but free will? I disagree with today’s most common definition of free will. Free will is about being on control of your will, knowing what desires are to strive after and what desires are to be controlled. By that I mean any desire that serves humanity at large, that I will encourage in myself and pursue it, anything that is only self-serving, I will control, and read this part well, control, not suppress, not abstain but control it in order to not lose my goal in life.

I will leave it at this for now…