KARMA #2 DESTINY

 

These are the main factors six factors determining our karma and which challenge our free will. 

Fulfill your destiny.

Correct injustice – heal the planet.

Do no harm to any of the Four Beings of Nature.

Subordinate Ego to the Higher Self.

Love.

Be in joy and savor the opportunity of being in a sentient body and fulfilling one’s task or mission.

 

Destiny

The hunt for one's destiny is the hunt of one's life, stay on the scent, follow the spoor.

The Ancestors or our guides are our "Ap" to our destiny. They have access to our Book of Life or our Akashic records and know what our destiny is. They are there to help guide us to it amongst the other things that can assist us on our path. The clues they leave us along the way are like a Bushman tracker after his prey. Sometime the spoor is lost and he must go back to the last track to pick the trail up again or look for the next clue ahead which becomes visible. Similarly for us on the path it is like a treasure hunt where our guides leave clues for us to find. Sometimes they send a clue which seems to take us in the wrong direction but if we did not follow it we would not find the next clue. This resembles a cybernetic negative feedback system not unlike the body's hormonal system which looks like a diurnal wave form, not a straight line. We are often going a bit wrong or "left" and then go "right." We need to not beat ourselves up about being lost when we are just in the process of searching. 

“Everyone has in him/her something Divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength, however small, a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find, develop and use it.”

Sri Aurobindo

 

“In every person there is something precious which is in no-one else. And so, we should honor each for what is hidden within them for what only they have.” Talmud

 

“… Each soul makes Two agreements upon entering the world. The First binds the individual to a distinct destiny that becomes the soul’s great project in life. The Second entangles each person in the limitations of fate and responsibilities for family and community. 
While all second agreements can be renegotiated, the first is non-negotiable.” Michael Meade

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”  
William Ernest Henley

 

Fate involves the circumstances surrounding us and our destiny mission. Fate is the cards we are dealt in life which may have a lot to do with our karma. It is said that one's fate may be determined by geography or one's Zip code and there can be truth to that. However, we need to rise above our fate into our true destiny path. Destiny will be fashioned by our choices – skillful or not. Destiny is that illusive, but unique gift we were granted so that we could give of ourselves to the planet and all Beings. Most of us do not find it easily.

 

“All the talents of God are within you.
 How could this be otherwise 

when your soul is derived from His genes!”  Hafiz

 

We co-create with the Divine – His/Her creation cannot fully manifest without our help. God wants a personal relationship with each one of us. God does not play favorites - karma is set as a default into the soul which makes allowance for this love. S/He loves us all. Karma is our test, not the Creator's love.

 

God’s love is not a test, God is not a test of love.

 

 We are all given a destiny cup to fill. Some have been given bigger cups than others. Those who have smaller cups may find it easier than those with large ones.

“To whom much is given, much is expected.”

“The souls of people on their way to earth-life pass through a room full of lights. Each takes a taper, 
often only a spark to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls by rare fortune are detained longer and have time to grasp a handful of tapers which they weave into a torch. These are the torchbearers of humanity – its poets, seers and saints who lead and lift the race out of darkness towards the light. They are the law givers and saviors, the light bringers, way showers and truth tellers and without them humanity would lose its way in the dark.” Plato

“The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great if the inward is small or of little worth... All works are surely dead if anything from the outside compels you to work. Even if it were God himself compelling you to work from the outside, your works would be dead. If your works are to live, then God must move you from the inside, from the innermost region of the soul - then they will really live. There is your life and there alone you live and your works live.” Patanjali

Remember that your purpose exists by being what it is, not by dispossessing, defeating or winning but rather simply by being more and more of what it is. 

Intention is everything. Many are in line with and following their destiny paths but are not doing so within the laws of karma, of right and wrong.

Determine well your heart’s desire for in releasing your intention its energy will affect its holiness or unholiness.

Be attentive only to the responsibility of what compels.
Bestow blessings, refuse burdens.
What makes you beholden enslaves you.
What makes you grateful blesses you.
What you touch, touches you. What you let touch you, enhances or diminishes.

The most dangerous distraction is the lure of beguiling but essentially extraneous information - be it false or true. More important, is it useful to you, does it inspire, support, advance and enhance who you are and your relationship with God or is it merely speculative, and appealing to your curiosity?

Seligman the father of positive psychology stresses the importance of finding one's own core or signature strength and meaning in one's life.  How we serve others has a lot to do with the healing effects of "meaning" - which is so crucial. 

Unthinking conformity no matter how piously enacted lacks meaning and as such is soulless.
One must be bold in questioning; that to just accept without inquiry is simply surface learning by rote not the deeper learning of thoughtful consideration.
Our deeds fashion our destiny so do our understandings fashion our deeds.

 

We cannot separate the Soul from our destiny path.

We have to find our own way and our own spiritual path to assist us along the path. The Infinite One does not want us to have a copy cat destiny. If we are misdirected, we may come to end of our lives with a mission that society or our parents have laid out for us. If so, we will have to come back again to find that gift or taper or myth. 

There is also a direct link with destiny, the search for the Self and the Hero/ine’s quest for his/her archetype, mission or purpose. They are all shades of the same thing.

“Hold to your vision - be true to your myth.” J. Campbell 

“… put out to sea! Save your boat’s journeying soul, cost what it may.” Dom Helder Camara

Frequently when I do divinations, the client’s destiny bone is mal-aligned. When I ask that person what do they do, as opposed to what would they have done if they had had the choice - their heart's choice would often have been very different. The wrong choice was frequently motivated by parental control. By going back to our earlier, especially teenage years, we may discover that the dream that we wanted for ourselves was put aside because of external pressure. This dream could well have been connected to our core strength and our heart's desire. There may be karmic consequences for those who have tried to mold a child in their own image.

Of all the teachings the Ancestors have given us, many focus on our being truly congruent with Self.

Anything or anybody who does not make you more of who we are makes you less of who we are.

 

The focus is on becoming more of who you are.

You must free yourself to be yourself.
Do not be captive to the demands of false duty.
Do not take on what is not yours to take on.
If you will not be you who then will be? 

Be patient with yourself, kind to yourself and release yourself from what you are not accountable.

Look carefully to what you aspire, cherish and guard so as not to squander your gifts nor lose your heritage.

Are you nibbling on the apples of the Tree of Knowledge or are you nurturing whatever proud plant or humble weed is your present entrustment? It is that which you are to make glorious.

 

The sages teach that all that happens; happens as it must.
What occurs cannot occur contrary to the conditions of its occurring or contrary to its nature.
A cedar tree does not spring from an acorn.

 

The menu is only the menu.
It offers, it describes, it suggests.
When the meal arrives do not put it aside.
Absorb the reality of your choice.
If you do not taste the nature of God in your selection, you must choose another dish, if indeed you desire to be for the Infinite One, all that He is for you.
For although the Creator's breath will be present, His presence will not manifest for you.
You need to choose the offering He has prepared especially and selectively for you.

  

Congruence: Emotions and their expression match and behavior arises from the root of their being. They sing their own song and do not do things for others’ approval. Soul, heart and intellect are congruent.

"... Care about peoples approval and you will be their prisoner." Tao Te Ching

 

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” C.J. Jung

“This above all, to thine own self be true.” Shakespeare

 

We may have found our destiny but it is also essential karmically to do it for its own sake, for the sake of others, without doing harm, and with a feeling of equanimity and gratitude. It is not easy.

Many of us have to live in two worlds - the one that pays the bills and the other that is the heart's purpose. It is never too late.

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