The Path of the Will

Human beings call free

what moves within a web of forces.

They choose and believe they guide,

yet their steps often follow

the ancient track of Nature.

Invisible hands lead them:

habit speaks,

desire urges,

fear decides faster than light.

Thoughts come and go

like waves that call themselves will.

Thus they act,

yet not from the center of their being.

A will works within them,

born of the world’s mechanics,

an echo of Prakriti,

restless, reactive, bound.

This is the first master

in the house of man.

Then a brighter command arises.

The mind awakens,

examines, weighs, distinguishes.

It says: *I decide.*

It believes in freedom,

yet it still knows pressure and doubt,

the tension between wish and duty.

This too is will,

but not the last.

Deeper than thought,

quieter than decision,

another power rests.

It does not urge.

It does not persuade.

It waits.

When it speaks,

the quarrel of possibilities falls silent.

Action becomes simple,

not chosen, but recognized.

This is no compulsion.

This is necessity born of truth.

Here freedom begins.

For free is not

the one who wavers between paths,

but the one who becomes one

with what is true.

The divine Will

does not abolish the human.

It clarifies it.

It makes it transparent.

Then the human being acts

not as a tool,

but as a conscious bearer

of a greater meaning.

The soul says Yes

to the movement of the Eternal

and does not lose itself.

In this consent

the will finds its home.

And freedom

is no longer resistance to the Whole,

but conscious participation

in the becoming of the world.