Philosophical Essays
A Holographic God and the Artificial Soul
(In class writing assignment for my first year Philosophy class, 2005.)
Society and the Omnipresent-self
(Another in class writing assignment for my first year Philosophy class, 2005.)
The Ever Changing History of the Universe
(A shorter version of the paper I wrote for my Philosophical Foundations of Science, 2006.)

Literature Essays
From Caterpillars to Butterflies
(A short essay I wrote for my Writing 102 class in April 2005)

Political Essays
Land of the free?
(A speach I did for my frst year of Academic Decathlon in 1999.)
Fortress Civilization
(A piece I did for my Writing 101 class in November 2004.)
The Hope of Hopelessness
(A medium sized paper I had to write for one of my Anthropology classes, 2005.)

Personal Essays
The Purpose of Love
(Something I spurted out late on night in 2003.)

Continuing with the same theme in chapter two, Krishna mocks Arjuna’s complaints much like the human conscious. In verse twelve Krishna says that these warriors have always existed, like Krishna himself, and that they shall never cease to exist. Krishna’s words are to reassure Arjuna of the necessary actions which need to be taken, for the body is only a vessel for the eternal soul. As Krishna continues to talk, he states in verse thirty one that there is nothing more dutiful than this righteous battle. For not only is it Arjuna’s duty to fight and protect his land, but to kill off his own ignorance. Only through the knowledge of Brahma could he acquire the wisdom to fight his own nescience. Because a warrior should rejoice to be in such a chance battle, and for them the doors of heaven will be opened. Arjuna, like all the soldiers present, would find paradise as their reward for following their sacred dharma into battle. Likewise, through his own internal battle, would the reward be for destroying his human tendencies and ignorance through the knowledge of Brahma. To decline such duty would be a dishonour, tarnishing his glory and covering him in sin. Krishna says it is the dharma and glory of all to fight and to conquer the habits and tendencies which jeopardize the inner happiness of the self.

The remainder of this chapter, as well as all of chapter three, discusses the necessity of action. Arjuna questions Krishna’s meaning about the knowledgeable man. In verse four of chapter three, Krishna explains refraining from actions will not achieve success. You must perform necessary actions, or else you will fail in all aspects of life. It is every man’s duty to fulfill the actions laid before them, including fighting for knowledge. However, Krishna warns us to be careful in our search for knowledge, saying actions should be done with detachment. In verse nineteen Krishna says, any action performed with detachment attains the supreme good. Explaining further, Krishna cautions us against impatient actions, caused by desire. For desire is an enemy to the wise man, causing irrational and impatient action. Knowledge is obscured by desire, and much like his kinsmen before, Arjuna must stand up to face them. Only by fulfilling his duty to fight can Arjuna be free of sin, and only by preparing to fight his own human behaviors can he attain the wisdom to win the battle at hand.

We should not regard God as a person, for He is formless, ageless, speechless and so forth. Therefore, as human we can not use our limited language to define something that is limitless. God is the knowledge inside us at the moment of birth, the breath of the respiratory system and the beat of our heart. God is the will of nature to grow and flourish. God is all of that, and more than we can ever know. Consequently, truth is God.

This is not to say that everything we know and do has been predetermined. We enjoy a limited free will, within the confines of our limited existence and the laws of civilization. Man will still be in control of his own destiny, but only as far as he is allowed by God. For destiny can only take you so far, and man cannot control the results of his actions. Thus the actions are controlled by truth; the truth of nature, the truth of physics and all the other truths that hold this world together. Therefore, Truth being God controls our fate.

I have believe for many years of my life that destiny and fate are different things, limited in the concepts which language allows, but still very different aspects. To me, fate is the outcome, the end result; the sum of our actions and our destiny. If this is true, and applied to the model set forth by Gandhi, then God is destiny, and destiny is Truth.