Everything In Life Is a Choice You Make

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

oi-Priya Devi

By Priya Devi

Monday, September 13, 2010, 12:08

Life is nothing but a totality of conscious choices that you continuously make. Whether you want it or not, directly or indirectly, you are choosing everything. Someone else does not choose for you in your life. It is you who makes the choice.

An employee approached his boss, 'Sir, my wife said I should ask you for a raise." The boss replied, 'Oh, I will ask my wife tonight whether or not I should give you a raise!"

Understand, continuously it is your choice, your decision. You may think somebody else decides. But it is only you who makes decisions. For example if somebody criticises you, you choose to get offended. If somebody praises you, you choose to get flattered.

Because of your habit, you may choose it unconsciously and think that someone else is influencing your decisions.

All your continuous choices every minute put together decide your life. If you don"t decide and if you allow incidents to decide your life you go into a mode of 'paralysis". Our life as of now is nothing but paralysis. Only when you decide to live your life without any outside events, situations or decisions being forced on you, you actually decide to be alive.

A man was invited by a scientist for lunch at his home. The man was sitting at the lunch table when he saw a horseshoe hanging on the wall. A horseshoe is believed to bring good luck. The man was surprised and asked the scientist, 'Sir, I can"t believe you are a scientist and you also believe in this superstition that a horseshoe brings you luck!"

The scientist replied, 'No, no! I don"t believe in such stupidity. But the person who gave it to me said whether I believed it or not, it would bring me luck all the same!"

Your responses to different situations, decisions you make are completely your choice. But you fool yourselves and others into believing someone else is responsible and is making you execute things their way. We constantly believe we have been given unfair results.

This is because we are not able to connect the cause and the effect of many of the things that happen in our lives. We are blissfully unaware that we are the ones responsible for the consequences. We have made it happen by the way of unconscious living.

Continuously, it is only your choice, your decision. You may think that somebody else decides your life. Understand you can decide to respond differently. For example, when someone criticises you, you can choose not to get offended and remain calm, relaxed and collected. You can choose to live consciously. Be Blissful!