Jesus Christ happened, Mohammed happened, Moses happened, Ramana Maharshi happened, Ramakrishna happened. Then it can simply be that they could not have happened unless it was the will of God. So Jesus Christ happened because it was the will of God, but Hitler also happened, Stalin also happened; so they too could not have happened unless it was the will of God. So why the Source or God produces what human beings consider good and bad, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, the human being cannot know. All that the human being can do, as the German mystic Meister Eckhart said is to: "...wonder and marvel and the magnificence and variety of God's creation." We can only accept it; we cannot question it. So if this is accepted, that whatever happens is God's will and is not anybody's doing... In other words, if we are able by the grace of God to accept what the Buddha said: "Events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof." then...
So, events happen, deeds happen but there is no individual doer doing anything, which means that any action which we think is mine or yours or his or hers is not really anyone's action. Nobody has done anything but it has been created, it has happened because it is the will of God. And if this is acceptable Francoise, what is the result? If Francoise is truly able to accept that no action is her action, no action is Ramesh's action, no action is anyone's action, but a happening which had to happen at that time at that place because it was His (Source's) will, then what happens? Then what happens is, it would be silly for Francoise to blame anybody for any action, wouldn't it? If I'm truly able to accept by the grace of God (even that is God's will)... If I am able to accept by God's will that nothing can happen unless it is God's will, and therefore if anything has happened which the human being, the human, society considers good or evil, if it has happened, it could not have happened unless it was the will of God. One. And two, whatever has happened, if it has not been done by anyone, we cannot blame anybody.
So if we accept 'Thy will be done', what have we come to? We do not and cannot blame anybody, neither myself, nor you nor he or she. So the immediate effect of being able to accept that nothing can happen unless it is the will of God means immediately I cease to blame anybody. I cease to blame my self or anyone for whatever happens.
So, actions happen through this body/mind organism, actions happen through every body/mind organism: I can only see them as God's will. So if an action happens through this body/mind organism and the society considers it a good action and honors Ramesh, then the honoring by the society as seen or heard or read, becomes an input in Ramesh's body/mind organism. The brain reacts to it - strictly according to the programming and a sense of pleasure arises; a natural, mechanical, biological reaction. A sense of pleasure. But having the total understanding that it is not my action, that I cannot produce any action, it is therefore not my action that has been appreciated by society. So while there may arise a sense of pleasure, there does not arise a sense of pride.
At the other extreme, an action happens through this body mind organism which is condemned by society for whatever reason. It has been condemned by society. Let us say I have hurt someone's feelings; then the condemnation of society is an input in my body/mind computer. The brain reacts to society's indignation and the biological, mechanical reaction happens to produce a sense of regret - a sense of regret that an action has happened which has hurt somebody's feelings. So in that case a sense of regret arises, just as earlier a sense of pleasure arose. This time a sense of regret arises, but there is also the absolute total certainty that it is not my action which has been condemned by society because I know I can do no action nor can anybody do any action. Therefore, that action which has been condemned by society, happened because it was God's will and it is not my action. Therefore, while in this computer a sense of regret may arise, a sense of guilt cannot arise. A sense of guilt or shame can never arise.
So for the whole range of actions, from honor to condemnation, actions will arise and the natural reactions in the brain will happen. Sense of pleasure, sense of regret, but not pride and arrogance, guilt and shame. For any action which arises through this body, with this understanding that nobody does anything, there will never be any moment at any time of pride and arrogance or guilt and shame. And if some action happens through some other body/mind organism hurts me, it causes a hurt, physical, psychological or financial... With an action which has happened through some other body mind organism, he or she may not have that understanding which I have, so he or she may think that I am his or her enemy and they may be very happy that they have succeeded in hurting me because they think they have done it. But when I know that if I have been hurt it was only because it was God's will and cosmic law that I would be hurt at that time and place... If it were not God's will that I be hurt, no power on earth can hurt me. That is the understanding. You see? So the hurt is accepted as God's will, but knowing no one has hurt me, that no one can hurt me, it is not possible for anyone to hurt me, how can I bear malice or hatred toward anybody? You see what I mean? Hurt I have to accept; but I do not bear malice or hatred toward anyone. Nor jealousy and envy for something which God has created.
So what is the total result? All actions through this body or any other body, whatever happens is accepted with a biological reaction: sometime pain, sometimes pleasure, but without that enormous load which every individual bears: the load of pride and arrogance, guilt and shame, hatred and malice, and jealousy and envy. It is this load which obstructs peace from happening. The peace is there. It is this load which is the obstruction which stops the peace from flowing.
So where did we begin: Thy will be done. And where have we ended: nobody is a doer. The Source is the only doer and the result of that is that the peace which is already there shines forth when there is no obstruction. So when this understanding is there and the peace shines forth, we call who has attained this understanding a 'sage'. But basically a sage and an ordinary person still have to carry a body/mind computer which has been programmed by Source. The sage can do nothing about his genes just as an ordinary man can do nothing about his genes. Therefore, the genes in a sage may bring about an action which sometimes the society condemns. How could he do that? He's supposed to be a sage. How could he do that? My point is that if an action is brought about because of the genes, and science today, especially in the last year or two, the amount that is 'blamed' on the genes is fantastic. You're a vegetarian or non-vegetarian: genes. You are a person who is not loyal to his wife or husband: blame it on the genes. That is what I read. All kinds of things these days. The scientists, the biologists have come out with this research which confirms that no-one is doing anything; it is happening.
So an action happens through a sage which, as I say, is condemned. The sage accepts it with a sense of regret but it has happened. So the sage accepts the result of that bad action which may be some kind of a punishment. So the sage accepts an action which has happened through his body/mind organism which has been condemned by society and law as God's will, and also accepts the punishment for it as God's will, knowing that it is truly, as far as he's concerned, not his action.
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