What is the right thing to do?

This perplexing question has vexed many individuals since time innumerable. The moral reasoning is context specific. It can be based on individual’s frame of reference. “Love thy neighbor as you love thyself”, so argues the divine commandment. The injunction, for believers, might be the general outline; however, the individual meaning rests on their interpretation. The guideline for the unbelievers could be very simple though. The right thing for me might be quite different from the right thing for my neighbor. The problem with the conventional ‘right things’ are that they sound very impractical in this day and age. The commandment that ‘sin no more’ might be difficult first step in the current world of impulsive indulgence. The description of sin has also varied. While the sins of flesh have remained the same, the sins of the soul have become denser. The idea of not following the soul’s leading is alien in current times; leave alone the ability to decipher its call. The journey of (material) potentiality to (spiritual) actuality gives birth to the soul, which guides us to do the right thing. The matter, lacking intelligence could go awry. The metaphysical elements though so guide the intangible that the part actualizes the whole (The Holy one). The material life, so works against the individual will that it serves to impede it – cause it to strive more and more. Welcome the troubles, for they cause you to actualize your potential. The slaughter house of ‘success’ is for those who are deluded with life. What is failure? A flip side of success – a paradox of striving. What if, my soul has stopped telling me, what to do? His angels could have come down from the firmament in order to remind me of what I have forgotten. But there are no compulsions in the way of doing the right thing. I have to go back to the dyadic track, which I conveniently ignored. This could have been ages ago. The soul is immaterial. Divine will is eternal. The right thing is to listen to the soul, even if it tells you to do the things that you least desire. How do you differentiate the voice of the soul from some other (carnal) calling? There are no complex prescriptions in this regard. The voice of the soul is as natural as a cool breeze in the afternoon, or a rainfall in the tropical forest, depending on the context of individual person. However the desire to do the right thing, whatever it takes has to be a passion. An obsession, which dictates a constant, moment to moment, self renewal, until there is no space between the self and the (personal) truth. The individual so embodies the truth that his will become the God’s will and vice versa. An individual god is embodied in this way. Everything you do then becomes the right thing. The right thing could be attaining the enlightenment, the knowledge and the wisdom. As mentioned in the Holy Bible – Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all else shall be added up to you.