The future is in our hands really. There are no aliens who can do anything about it. There is no God who punishes us. There is no enlightened being who blesses us. It's only ourselves. We have to make a choice, because that's how we grow -- by making a good choice.

There's only one way to live our lives, and that's the right way. There's no other way. The choices in our lives make us God or anti-God, even though Indian philosophy teaches us that we're all God, and God is within us. But if we make the wrong choice, we go in the opposite direction. God creates both light and darkness, good and evil, so that we'll be able to understand, to know, to exercise our wisdom to choose the right way. Some of us tend sometimes to give in to weakness and forget that the price of strength, the price of honoring our own ideal is greater than material gain, much, much greater. We have to strive for that. We have to honor ourselves by choosing the right way.

God gives us free will; of course Hes never says, "You must do this, and you must do that or I will punish you." Punishment comes from us, comes from our own conscience. We know what's wrong and what's right, and when we do something wrong and don't feel good, that's our punishment. It's worse than hell when our conscience feels very, very bad about what we've done. And when we feel good about it, that means we're doing God's will. So Hes gives us the free will to choose, and lets us remind ourselves and the world that we have to choose Hiers way. That's the only way to represent ourselves if we think that we're God; if we think that we're one with God, that God even dwells within us, then we have to represent that.

Hell, heaven and the world are choices. Places different for different temperaments. We cannot force people to live in a different world, if they don't want to.

If what we are doing does not comply with the original plan of the universe, we will feel frustrated and unhappy. This is why worldly people are always frustrated. Master will often tell you the original plan, but you never listen. Even if you do what you think is right, you will eventually have to make a change and go back to the original path.

Actually, there is no such thing as fate. It's just a matter of having not done enough spiritual practice.