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Originally Posted by Unattacted101  After reading Autobiography of a Yogi...Paramhansa Yogananda mentions that Sri Yukeswar is All knowing .such as when his guru knows about his stray thoughts and when his guru tells him about a fruit hes gonna eat years in advance which Paramhansa later tells happens exactly as his guru foretold . |
I <3 Yogananda.
The future is not predetermined so to speak. You could say ALL FUTURES are played out and we choose a path to move on. Yogananda was probably going to stay on the path he was on and Sri Yukeswar was looking at how that path plays out.
The confusing part is there's no time. Everything is happening now. It's like every possible permutation of experience you could have is on a spinning hard disk and you can use direct access to go to anyone of those at any time. We perceive our reality mainly through the mind and the mind is linear. It can't process "everything-all-at-once" so it lays events out in "logical" order to experience the world. That is the birth of time, past, and future.
So is our life predetermined? Everything is, already... there is no beginning or end outside the mind. There are many paths and your level of consciousness determines the path you move down. While on your path do you get to choose? No. It's like you are a passenger in a train. You can try all you want to steer the train, but all is for naught... you go where the tracks go. Your resistance to the experiences as you are moving on the tracks, for a large part, determines your level of consciousness. The more reception you have for your ride (your experiences) allows you to travel on different tracks. Resistance shows up as another set of tracks (experiences).
When you become conscious, then you get to choose the experiences and are unbound by the tracks.
Here's an excellent video to see the difference between linear and non-linear experiences.
Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com Quote:
Originally Posted by Unattacted101 Im also curious ,since everything is already played out, why are certain things happening to us (such as why our earth is getting so messed up with ozone depletion and pollution ..etc) ??? Also if us knowing all this affects the outcome of our life????PPPPPLEASE RESPOND ANYTHING IS APPRECIATED
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Physical reality is a reflection of self. There's so much garbage in our consciousness that it manifests as pollution on our Earth. My protective layer (ozone) is diminishing and I am really feeling the effects of my unconsciousness. The world can tell us exactly what's going on inside of self.