from “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
(Geert Crevits) © Mayil.com
“The first question one should ask is, “Can I develop my life in the way I want?” A very great power is involved in this. Actually, the will is what makes you progress. If you don’t want to go forward, then you don’t make progress because the will is something that stands on its own.
The will is what makes you progress. If you don't use this energy for yourself, you will want something for and from someone else.
The will is a self-powered motor and something that, if not used, will still makes itself felt, but in the wrong way. Because, then, instead of wanting something for yourself, you will want something for and from someone else.
If you do this – want something for and from the other – then something leaves you. An energy leaves you and goes out to the other and you hope the other will do something with it – in your life. Therefore, you desire something from the other and you do this with your will. This is wrong. This makes an energy go away from you, an energy you need in order to live yourself.
There are a thousand ways you can force your will upon another, but this is wrong.
Maybe you will notice this in your life, “My will is going somewhere else, I want something from the other without asking him or her, but by willing it.”
This can work in very subtle ways, there are a thousand ways you can force your will upon another: by speaking hurtfully, by speaking nicely, by leading someone on and then obliging him to do what you want him to do.
There are so many ways in life to deal with one’s will that you must be very alert to these games it plays and this is what makes life so complicated. For there are so many people and so many motors turned on and kept running, and often in the wrong way.
A child already does this. A child will look at you, wanting something, and makes something happen in you with his will to which you will react.
This is why sometimes you find yourself doing things you don’t want to do but that another wills of you. Often people who live close to you will want something from you and you feel this very distinctly, and then you say, “Oh, well okay, if that’s what they want, then I’ll do it.”
However, it won’t always be so clear.
When you do things you yourself don’t want to do, just because others want you to do them, this can confuse you because then you no longer know what it is you yourself want. This makes life very complicated and is often the reason people lose their way and end up saying, “My life is so empty, why am I actually living? I can’t cope anymore and I don’t know how to go on.” There can be other confusions in life but this is a main one, namely, that the will functions outside of the person and not in his or her own life.
Sometimes you find yourself doing things you don’t want to do but that another wills of you. This can confuse you because then you no longer know what it is you yourself want.
The will is a divine energy and when it is kept within the person it can change their life totally, it can let it develop and flourish and anything you want. What has to be brought to expression will come to being through the will. The will is what is always stimulating you, saying, “Do this, do that.” The will is what drives you; it is the cause of transformation in the human being.
When a person has lost his will he has practically lost the ability to change. He will do things through the will of another but it doesn’t affect him. He is the slave of the other’s will, as it were. Watch out for this, never let yourself become the slave of another’s will.
When this happens you no longer feel anything. You do feel a pressure upon you but don’t feel anything concerning your own life, you don’t know what you have to do and you don’t even see why you should go on living.
Someone can impose their will upon another to such a far reaching extent it brings this other to the point of saying, “My life is meaningless to me, what is my purpose here and why don’t I want to live anymore?” This is vital because the person will break down. He will let go, won’t want to go on anymore and also doesn’t really understand why, and can’t find a solution; he either becomes depressed or begins to experience life as something banal or thinks, “This is not what should be happening in my life.” It will all be very vague to him because his energy is not the cause of it. The result is a sad existence, one that is gradually being undermined, and he doesn’t know how to go on.
Placing the will in yourself has the opposite effect. It awakens a fantastic energy in you, a powerful energy that takes you on ahead and allows you to grow and blossom.
It is the staff the saint holds in his hand, the sceptre in the hand of the leader, it is his own will. Something carrying him, supporting him, bringing him further. So straightforward is this energy that it reaches to the Divine. Because the will is never satisfied, it is unending for it keeps going further and further and further in life."
Master Morya
Geert Crevits © Mayil.com
Source: “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
from chapter 6: 'How do I take my life in hand?'
