Truth in a Nutshell

My Responsibility

You have to clear your own karma. When one goes to a forest, if he has a gun or a sword in his hand he becomes fearless to meet any wild animal. But that doesn’t mean that the person who gave him the gun or sword has to come and help him get rid of the wild animals. You have been given a technique of meditation. You have to help yourself. You have to make your own willpower strong to go through all your fate karma. Master also helps you to some extent, but you have to mainly help yourself by meditation.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}

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Daoists believe that our future is in our own hands. Destiny is the result of cause and effect from the past life. This cannot be changed, but we can change our future.
_{Introduction to the Dao}

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To acknowledge and affirm our spiritual nature, the first practical step we are to take once we are committed to the spiritual path is to embrace responsibility for our every thought and action….

Whatever we are today, it is the result of what we thought and did in the past. By the same rule of cause and effect, what we are to become in the future will be determined by what we think and do right now, today. Through our consciousness, our sense of discrimination, we can choose at every moment to make a difference now, in this life, not only for the rest of our lifetime but for all eternity.…

Why do we wait to make meditation our first priority? If we are not going to make this effort now, when are we going to do it? We need to ask ourselves these questions. If it is not for me to do it, who do I think will do this work for me?
_{Living Meditation}