Signs

[comp13]

If enlightenment or spiritualism promotes determinism, does that mean there are signs in this world that lead us on our way?

[Prabhaker]

@comp13 Our lives are both predestined and they are not. Both yes and no. Whatever is physical in you, material, whatever is mental, is predetermined. But something in you constantly remains undetermined, unpredictable. That something is your consciousness. If you are identified with your body and your material existence, in the same proportion you are determined by cause and effect. Then you are a machine. But if you are not identified with your material existence, with either body or mind – if you can feel yourself as something separate, different, above and transcendent to body-mind – then that transcending consciousness is not predetermined. It is spontaneous, free.