Free Will – Ego Concept?

 

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Free Will – Ego Concept?

There is nothing like free will. It is just an ego concept, there cannot be anything like that. Mind moves into opposites very easily. It creates dichotomies - either one is a free agent (free will), or one is a slave. Both are untrue, both are false concepts, because you are not, so you cannot be a slave, and one cannot be a free agent, because for both, you will be needed.

Life is a vast interdependence. We are just an organic part of the whole, we are not separate, so how can we be free. But one is not saying that one is not free, remember that, because how can you be not free, or free? One is not, one doesn’t exist at all. It is a vast interdependence, and this interdependence is the totality - God. But the ego goes on finding its ways.

Nobody is free. We are just puppets, and the threads are in some unknown hands, and whatsoever HE determines, happens. We are just slaves, nothing else.

Both parties are wrong. We are neither slaves nor free agents. This is a little difficult to understand - it is because You are not that you are part of the whole. But if you think yourself separate you will feel like a slave. If you understand yourself as part of the whole you become the master but you become master with the whole not against the whole. If you are against the whole, you become the slave. If you flow with the river, you become the master. You become the river! If you try to go upstream you become the slave.

Free will is not there, and neither is slavery. Dependence and independence are both false words. They should be dropped completely; they should not be used. It is interdependence. I exist in you; you exist in me. That is the way life is - we exist into each other. The breath that was in me just a moment before has now moved and has gone into you.

A few days we are here and then we disappear; and then again, we will be here – and disappear. Where do we come from? Where do we go again? Into the whole! We disappear to rest. Then again, we are here. Spring comes, and trees start blooming, and birds start singing – a new life; and then it has gone, and everything is restful.

Again, it will come. Many times, we have been here, many times we will be here; but once we understand that WE ARE NOT, that the whole goes on playing through us, once we understand – then there is no need to be thrown again and again back into the body, there is no need, we have become alert, conscious. Now there is no need for any manifestation; we rest in the whole – this we have called moksha nirvana. This we have called the ultimate freedom.

Freedom remains, not us; that is moksha. It is not that we become free, on the contrary we become free of yourself. There is no self. The Self simply disappears.