Q & A

A questioner asked Maharaj Charan Singh Ji :

When we have a choice of two ways to go in our life – let’s say we have to live in one place and all of a sudden there’s a chance we can live somewhere else – we sometimes experience a turmoil. You’re not sure which way to go, whether you want to go – to move to the other place – or stay where you are. Yet you always tell us not to worry. It seems like in order not to worry about that, we should just surrender that problem, but how do we do that?

Maharaj Ji answered:

Brother, instead of worrying about the situation, one should try to do one’s best. With your best available intellect or reasoning or thinking or intuition – whatever you may have – do your best, then leave it to the Lord. Still you can be wrong, but then, you see, you have no other option. What else can you do? You have done your best. Then leave it to the Lord.

Maharaj Ji continued by saying:

If he [the Lord] doesn’t want us to do the right thing, we will never do the right thing. If he wants us to do that right thing, he will also give us that understanding to do the right thing. If he doesn’t want us to do the right thing, he will not give us that understanding to do the right thing. And it doesn’t mean that if you know the right thing, you will definitely be able to do the right thing. Sometimes we know the right thing, but we never are able to do the right thing because we become a victim of certain weaknesses. Even knowing what is right, we can’t do the right thing. Or sometimes we don’t get that understanding to do the right thing.

So our doing the right thing depends on the Lord’s will. We are not in control of the kind of choices that we make – good or bad.

Maharaj Ji ended with:

Things happen in whatever way it suits him, however he wants them to happen. So if he wants us to behave in that way, he will give us the right understanding to behave in that way. If he wants to keep us in the dark, we will remain in the dark.

Spiritual Perspective Vol III