Free choice and free will would appear to have very similar meanings. Very often they are misused by people in their everyday speech, so let us establish just what it is that we mean by these words.
Understanding the Significance
When one considers the totality of Humanity´s spiritual life, the subject of its free choice and free will would appear on the surface to be of very little relevance. In actual fact, however, to understand completely the significance of Humanity´s free choice and free will requires the mind of an Adept, a very highly evolved being, for if you can truly understand the limits of Humanity´s choice, and the limits of Humanity´s will, you will understand creation in its design and structure in the whole Universe.
Free choice is fairly self-evident. It means that a person is free to exercise their choice. It means that a person has a choice before them and that they are free to choose one path or the other, one way or another. Free will, on the other hand, by its very terminology -- will -- implies a force, a power. If you impose your will on somebody else you are directing a power, an influence, onto that person and they have no choice in the matter: they are obeying your will. Therefore will does not involve choice.
Will is a power directed or employed by a higher vibration, by a more evolved person, onto a less evolved person. Consequently a less evolved person cannot impose their will on a more evolved person. It has to be the more evolved person who imposes the will.
Free Choice
Having defined free choice and free will let us now examine whether or not you are actually free to exercise your choice and your will. Let us begin by looking at free choice. Throughout your everyday lives you are continually faced with alternatives, some simple, some complicated. If you think about it you exercise choice at almost every minute of the day. You are forever deciding what you want to do, and by the very act of making a decision you are choosing between two alternatives.
This is the way in which you progress in life and learn; for the result of your choice has an effect, and depending upon the reasons or the motivations for your choice so the effect upon you will vary. Now I am not saying that you can choose rightly or wrongly for there is, in reality, no such thing as right or wrong. You will choose, and how you choose will have an effect upon you. What is it, then, that leads you to exercise that choice??
The Mind
You can make a choice over many things. You can choose, for example, where you want to live and with whom you want to live. You can decide what colour to paint your house, what type of car to buy, what kind of food you want to eat, and so on. In the material world in which you live today there are many choices which have to be made and, although perhaps you would not think so, the influences that lead you to make those choices are numerous.
The factors which influence your choice and impinge on your mind -- for the mechanism of deciding a choice is within the mind -- are very varied. It is the mind that decides your choice, and there are many sources from which that mind draws. It could be the soul, it could be the personality, it could be any one of your finer bodies reacting on your mind to influence your choice. So when you exercise choice try to establish which factors are leading you to make that choice and, as in all things, try to establish what the motivation is, what the motive force is, for that choice.
The Act of Choosing
You incarnate on the Earth with the divine gift of free choice, and it is by the exercising of that choice, properly controlled, that you will learn. If the choice is not controlled then you will learn and evolve very slowly. Those of you who have begun to control your physical and other bodies, and to impose the discipline of your soul on your mind, will begin to make a responsible choice, and I emphasize the word "responsible", in all your everyday actions, and so you will evolve more rapidly. Therefore think before you make that choice so that you make the correct one, not only for yourself but also for those around you. It is important that you think about the act of choosing for it involves the whole reason for your incarnation and existence.
Part Two follows....
This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".
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