The first principle to craft a happy life is the principle of ‘Acceptance’.
‘Acceptance of what is’ is the master key. The current moment is inevitable. The sooner we acknowledge that, the better off we are.
The next step is to know that ‘one’ can essentially ‘do nothing’ about life situations. The ‘one’ here is always the ego – the ‘sense of a separate self’.
Knowing that one can do nothing about life situations leads to automatic ‘witnessing’. One then dispassionately sees life happening to oneself without getting embroiled in life.
This also means that if life is about to turn around in a positive way, one can’t stop it from turning around.
‘One’ not being able to do anything about life situations doesn’t mean that the Divine can’t do anything about one’s life situations.
One not being able to do anything also doesn’t mean that ‘one’ will not feel agency in any matter. In spite of knowing that one can do nothing, one will continue to feel that he can do something about life. Thats the feeling of free will embedded in us for a certain purpose.
The feeling of free will is the instrument used by the Divine to make changes in us, when the Divine wills it. While free will is an illusion, the feeling of free will is important. Knowing that free will is an illusion liberates us. Having the feeling of free will empowers us. In the presence of the fact of Divine Will, we can neither generate free will nor can we wipe out the feeling of free will.
Since we can essentially ‘do nothing’, the way to ‘solve everything’ is that we should ‘trust ourselves to the flow of life’, ‘go with the grain’ in every life situation without any resistance whatsoever. Technically, that’s also something ‘we’ cant do. But if it happens to us, then it is the ideal response to life and its many twists and turns. A response by life to life, not by us to life. Then you finally ‘come home’. Not by ‘your’ own doing. By Life’s doing. By the Divine’s doing.
