Question: How one can choose his own path?
Answer: Well, with knowledge you can decide what path you want to follow. The more knowledge we have, the more we can make an educated decision. There are only like four yoga paths and then the path of materialism which is the path everyone is following now. That is a path, too. And we have chosen that.
But if you want to get out of that, then you must become educated. Like today we have talked a lot about identity, about what the goal in life is, etc. So you can listen to this and you can decide, “Does that sound like what I want to do?” I can tell you without a doubt God actually tells us very clearly, “This is what you should do.” But is it what I want to do?
So there are other paths if you will that people are propagating. So if you know all of this knowledge, you can choose. But if you believe what you have heard today, if you hear all these other philosophies, doctrines you can understand this is not the ultimate answer. It is like astral travel. Some people teach this is what you should do but if you understand what it is and what you will get from it, you may decide, “No, I don’t need to do that.” But the other guy says, “This is what you need to do.” So the more pure understanding you have, the more perfect will be your decision.
So as we all know, there are many things you can do just like in this lifetime. There are so many things we can do. But then what should we do? So God Himself makes it very clear what we should do. And the perfect masters tell us what we should do. Then we have to decide.