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Ramaswami Pillai

Ramaswami Pillai once asked Bhagavan, "Life is full of apparent choices. We waste a lot of energy thinking about what we should do. When a choice presents itself, how can we tell if it is something that we have to do, or whether it is something that will waste our time and lead us in the wrong direction."

Bhagavan told him, "Throw it down[1] three times. If it jumps back three times, then it is something you have to do."

If we have a mind, we can’t tell what things are destined for us. A jnani might see and know, and he might even tell us if we are lucky. The rest of us just stumble along, making plans and thinking we are in charge of future events.

I was destined to be in Tiruvannamalai. Hindsight alone tells me that. I ‘threw it off my head’ a few times, but it always jumped back. On several occasions I made attempts to be somewhere else, but they never worked out for long. Sooner or later I would always find myself back at the foot of Arunachala.

[1] In Tamiḷ, destiny is often conceived as a load that one carries on one’s head.

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