Daily Readings from the Works of Swami Venkatesananda


Venkatesa Daily Readings Vol 1 — The Spirit Is Free

May 11, 2023

The Spirit Is Free 

     Only the physical, grosser side of us seems to be predetermined; the spirit seems to be free. Where there is a broader line between the spiritual and the psycho-physical, the psycho-physical is predetermined and the spirit is free. They seem to mingle and overlap somewhere. Once the spirit is awakened, it choicelessly pursues the light, but while the spirit is asleep or dormant, it choicelessly pushes the psycho-physical organism in the other direction. Yet the spirit in itself is free.

      Once such a choice is been made, the “I” has no further choice. If the “I” has turned towards the light at one stage, then the spirit of wisdom makes the choice; the light makes the choice. Once that has happened, life goes on choicelessly in the chosen direction. Yet the choice need not be made at one historic moment, and having made the choice one might still turn again and choose the darkness. That possibility is also there, just as the possibility for the fool to turn towards the light is there all the time. 

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