The Free Will story

Q: Are we mindlessly trapped in karmas? Is there a way out?

1. Desire is the precursor to everything; it is spontaneous to existence. It characterizes the lowest form to the high mystic who desires freedom. It also characterizes this universe, whose desire is to Become--to unfold as this great space-time. If a desire is pursued with appropriate action, then it manifests as karmas in its journey toward fulfillment. Any desire can be fulfilled. All it needs is correct and persistent action and, of course, time.

2. In order to pursue a desire, a person needs power. Free will enters the picture now. Free will is the precursor to choice, to any decision. It is the power of the decision whether to fulfill this desire or not. This is the fork in the trial of life where the fate of a desire is incessantly tested. Free will is the embryo of the great power--intent. Once the choice is made to fulfill a desire, then awareness is diverted from other areas of a being to bring this desire to fruition. now the person is set upon fulfilling this desire. This soon becomes a drive. And this drive generates a mindset. The mindset is the next step in the germination of an intent.

3. While free will sanctions the use of free awareness, or astral energy, to fulfill a desire, the drive enables the acquisition of the necessary knowledge and ingredients to put the desire into action. Therefore, in its simplest form, karma is action...The connotation that karma is this mindless cyclical force of reaction to an initial desire or action is a result of ignorance of the nuts and bolts of the karmic theory. Karma means action. An action resulting from a desire can be terminal to itself or it can sprout more desires for similar experiences. These secondary desires will grab awareness, and lie latent, like seeds. Seeds of desire are precursors to action to be. When the space-time is appropriate, these dormant karmas sprout new desires and actions. People mistake this intelligent process and call it fate. Hence the use of the terms "predestined," "fated," "destiny," and so on. But we can clearly trace these karmas to a previous action, which in turn emerged from an initial desire and free will.

4. Awareness could continually be invested in th pursuit of any desire, causing cyclical incarnations in bodies and space-times suitable for their fruition. Cyclical processes have no free will involved in their operation. The energy of awareness feeds the flames of desire and action, driving them through this process...Free will itself can act as an inhibitor to this cyclical process--free will, which originally made the choice of pursuing this desire. Free will is a combination of pure energy--astral energy that powers the astral body, and energy of awareness that makes up the dream mind, or astral mind. This awareness is the consciousness of pure intelligence. By intelligence, I do not mean the intellect and reasoning power that defines aspects of the physical mind. Pure intelligence is from spirit, from the higher mind.

5. There is no such thing as a stupid choice. A choice is a choice. The higher mind, the pure intelligence, has no such divisions as stupid or bright, good or bad. For it everything is divinely blissful.


1-4 above all quoted directly from Kali's Odiyya chapter "Stirring a Primal Force."

"by giving and taking, [the universe] maintains equilibrium. But when desire becomes cyclical, then it continues to take and does not give. at the point of extreme excess, this desire grows into a demonic voice with an enormous appetite. This upsets the rest of the support system to which this voice belongs. This support system is its immediate nature. The only way to restore this balance is to cut off supplies to this voice. Once the surrounding systems are upset, and cut off the only source of energy to this voice, then the voice begins to starve. This is the beginning of pain. Our body mind's reaction to restore balance and settle back into equilibrium thus appears punitive. In truth, we punish ourselves by letting these demonic voices take over our spiritual resources."

"the grace of the Divine Mother surrounds us. It is always granting our desires...Excessive pursuit of desires brings about imbalances and generates painful endings. When the demons of desire run away with a being's spiritual resources, the being cries out to th Divine Mother. The spirit yearns for redemption. This yearning attracts divine grace into the constitution of free will. Divine grace now backs free will that is made up of astral energy and consciousness from the higher mind. The force of this holy alliance is so great that it pulverizes any demons and assimilates their energy into the higher mind."

quoted as from above.