{"id":365,"date":"2008-06-07T22:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T22:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-06-07T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T22:05:58","slug":"am-i-in-control-of-my-destiny-who-is-the-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/am-i-in-control-of-my-destiny-who-is-the-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I in control of my Destiny ? Who is the &#8216;I&#8217; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya, my new assistant asked : Am I in control my destiny ?<br \/>\nThere is a more fundamental question.  Who is the &#8216;I&#8217; that is asking that question ? If the question is being asked by stepping outside the illusory &#8216;I&#8217; and looking it from a universal point of view, then the &#8216;event&#8217; (that is perceived to be destined)  and the &#8216;I &#8216; are the same. There is no difference between the two as they are locked in an eternal embrace. There is no &#8216;question&#8217; that can separate the two, existing as they are, in the same matrix of bubbling potential.   However if the question is being asked from inside the illusion of being in the &#8216;I&#8217;, then the question is completely valid and will always remain a valid question with no valid answer.  It is in the nature of the Illusion of our existence that the world can be imagined only in questions and resolved, if at all, in fantasy.  For ultimately all the questions arise from desire, and what creates the desire is the imagined separation between desire and the event that is desired.  That separation or duality gives rise to the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya, my new assistant asked : Am I in control my destiny ? There is a more fundamental question. Who is the &#8216;I&#8217; that is asking that question ? 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