Today's thought.
The word "owe" (to the best of my knowledge) deals predominantly with obligation with regard to repayment of "money" though it is extended to persons, or things, and includes even "gratitude". I owe my promotion to him; I owe my success to that "report"etc. Which leads me to believe that this is a sentiment which is predominantly restricted to matters "secular".
In the context of "spiritual" who owes whom is a question which bothers me enormously. There are two categories of people, one who believe that every action of ours is out of our own unfettered free-will, and the other set believes that there is really no free-will and it's all His will and it's prudent to outsource all to Him to deliver us.
Should the first set owe it to HIM eternally for giving this free will? With the "karma" theory of cause & effect being my own creation, why should I owe HIM for creating something which is so manifestly abhorrent ? Worse, HE appears to enjoy HIMSELF in this so called LEELA, which tempts me to ask whether it is HE who owes us an explanation for His creation which makes any faithful feel lost at times if not always?
Take the other set, when I surrender all my free-will to HIM, instead of testing me all the time with that great theory of "prarabdha driven experience of my own actions in absolute free will in an earlier birth, does He not owe me to let me -with some degree of comfort- feel His grace at least on some rare occasions? Or should I just owe him my gratitude for making me feel that there is really no free-will & all depends on His Grace, and do Jay jay vittal in mock ecstasy?
To me therefore it appears more logical that as a part of HIM separated from HIM during creation, "We" owe it to ourselves not to be overwhelmed by this bewitchingly beautiful secular World, but practicing to be able to detach ourselves to finally re-merge with HIM.
Even in the realm of the "secular" if I say lend someone in distress, why I should I feel that the other owes me? Would it not be more apt for every one of us to be able to get to that noble sentiment that we owe it to ourselves to help someone in distress?
Which finally brings me to that other meaning of this word namely Gratitude: Should not both the giver and the recipient feel grateful? Should Prahlad be grateful or Lord Narasimha be grateful? Who owes whom? (especially when everything is LEELA?)
Think it over folks..... Love Vichu
The word "owe" (to the best of my knowledge) deals predominantly with obligation with regard to repayment of "money" though it is extended to persons, or things, and includes even "gratitude". I owe my promotion to him; I owe my success to that "report"etc. Which leads me to believe that this is a sentiment which is predominantly restricted to matters "secular".
In the context of "spiritual" who owes whom is a question which bothers me enormously. There are two categories of people, one who believe that every action of ours is out of our own unfettered free-will, and the other set believes that there is really no free-will and it's all His will and it's prudent to outsource all to Him to deliver us.
Should the first set owe it to HIM eternally for giving this free will? With the "karma" theory of cause & effect being my own creation, why should I owe HIM for creating something which is so manifestly abhorrent ? Worse, HE appears to enjoy HIMSELF in this so called LEELA, which tempts me to ask whether it is HE who owes us an explanation for His creation which makes any faithful feel lost at times if not always?
Take the other set, when I surrender all my free-will to HIM, instead of testing me all the time with that great theory of "prarabdha driven experience of my own actions in absolute free will in an earlier birth, does He not owe me to let me -with some degree of comfort- feel His grace at least on some rare occasions? Or should I just owe him my gratitude for making me feel that there is really no free-will & all depends on His Grace, and do Jay jay vittal in mock ecstasy?
To me therefore it appears more logical that as a part of HIM separated from HIM during creation, "We" owe it to ourselves not to be overwhelmed by this bewitchingly beautiful secular World, but practicing to be able to detach ourselves to finally re-merge with HIM.
Even in the realm of the "secular" if I say lend someone in distress, why I should I feel that the other owes me? Would it not be more apt for every one of us to be able to get to that noble sentiment that we owe it to ourselves to help someone in distress?
Which finally brings me to that other meaning of this word namely Gratitude: Should not both the giver and the recipient feel grateful? Should Prahlad be grateful or Lord Narasimha be grateful? Who owes whom? (especially when everything is LEELA?)
Think it over folks..... Love Vichu
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