TWO CHOICES

We have two choices.  We can either choose that which leads us to Brahman, or we can choose that which leads us away from him. 

What leads us to him is discrimination and renunciation, and what drives us from him is lust, anger, greed, egotism, attachment and envy.  Discrimination is choosing spiritually productive behaviors, and renunciation is identifying the spiritually destructive ones and rejecting them. 

We have the power to seek or to run from Brahman, and on our choice will depend the success or failure of our lives.  The purpose of our lives is to realize Brahman.  If our lives are successful we will praise Brahman.  If they are a failure and we are full of suffering we will resent Brahman.

But why blame Brahman for our misery?  We are attracted to the pleasures of the moment, never stopping to discriminate, and the pain that results is our own doing.  Put your hand into a fire and it will get burned.  Is that the fault of the fire?