I don’t think we have a choice. Destiny is predestined I have seen powerful clairvoyant and predicted my future to the letter. How could they see into the future and happens. Because fate never changes and if you decide to do one thing with your WILL , it’s not the conscious you who made that decision, it’s YOU the soul compelling you to do it via your subconscious.
You are mostly correct but not fully. As Maharaj Ji said, our current destiny is the results of our past choices and our future destiny would be based on our current choices. For the current destiny - we only have choice to respond/react to the present situation (The is the only free will we have). Practically, the bigger events in our life (such as job, marriage, health etc) are for sure pre-destined (based on our past choices). But how we handle them presently is our choice. Hope that helps!
Radha Nath Swami is going around this question of choice because there’s not clearcut answers whether we have choices or are they predetermined. My take is , there are no choices; everything is predetermined. Suppose someone smokes cigarettes until he gets lung cancer and dies. Death by lung cancer is predetermined and no forces can change that.
With due respects to you sir, I don’t entirely agree with your views. If everything is pre-determined then our life would be meaningless and a life of slavery controlled by an unknown entity ! I would say that our life can be controlled and moulded to a certain extent, though not entirely!
Not really sir,humans do have free will..just look at itihasas for that...let's take Mahabharata for example....all of lord Krishna's son's die becuase of the curse of a rishi so you can say that the death of lord Krishna's son is presdestined at that point...but the reason for which curse was given was because of the mischievous behavior of lord Krishna's sons(they actually put a pillow in their stomach and say that they are pregnant to the rishi so the rishi gets angry and curses them)so the reason for their death was ultimately becuase of their free will.....let's take another example the great king bharata mentioned in srimad bhagavatam.....he was a great king and renounced his kingdom during final stage of his life and was doing great tapasya..but he then gets attracted to a baby deer and at the time of death he remembers the baby deer and takes the birth of a baby deer in his next life...as lord Krishna says in Gita...whatever a person thinks of during his final breath,that state they shall attain in their next life...so humans have control over thier life by making Decisions and we do have free will...but we say our lives are mostly pre destined becuase marriage,carrier and health are granted by our past life karmas and as they make up most of the human life we say it's destined...but our decision making at moments in day to day life our completely in our control....like lord Krishna says in Gita...the spiritual insight of a person gets carried to the next lives so you could say you insight is destined but it's ultimately becuase you have developed it through out the life times...
What if it’s the perception of free will and not free will alone. How would we tell the difference. And what would be so bad about observing this life as the main character. This life is a blip in time so why the huge concern about free will. If we had true free will would we not do all the things we know we should do and not all the things we know we’re not supposed to do? Would enjoying the perception of free will (but not actually having it) free us to look within? Allow detachment?
If someone is going on a vacation but that person met an accident and died on the spot than the death was not his/her choice. His /her choice was vacation but that person died because it was written.
Beloved Swamijhi Maharajh. Because of Your inspiring personality I am making a choice right now to make a Journey Inward. I have faltered on this path before but will try again and ... Thank You infinitely.
If you were sent back in time to correct a bad choice you had made, but were unaware that you had been sent back, then you would make the same choice again, because lets say you were angry or drunk and it was that that made you make that choice. Then you would be still be drunk and angry no matter how many times you were sent back you would make the same mistake. Remember you are still in the same position when you go back, you are not aware of the future. This shows you that you only had one outcome. So no choice.
Fundamental physics says we dont hv choice, we dont hv free will. At the inception of big bang of the universe all the future event of molecules of sub atomic level are predestined and offcourse our brain also made by atoms which is govern by the law of physics of the universe.
Sir, do you have any authentic research link to prove your statement? If yes, please post it hear. I would love to read it, as this sounds fascinating. Thanks!
Aatmiya Swami Ji. Hare Krsna. CHOICE is ONE of the THREE Constants in the universe. (1) Change (2) Principles (3) Choice Our knowledge, skills and desire are motivating us for choosing Appropriate resources to Experience HAPPINESS. Choice, as explained by your kindself is the ONLY one factor that is in our control while the other two are NOT.🙏🙏🙏 Loving you one and all Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
Well that seems contradictive, I'm having a hard time with that, one says that we are free to choose and then another says there is no free will. Get it right please guys you don't know how much you are influencing people. My feeling is there is no one to make the choice! Who is it that is making the Choice?
But let me ask you this why did we choose it in the first place? The truth is our choices in our life is already pre determined our future is already written
You agree or not it's your choice. If you agree you are going to go to the higher planets after death and if not then definitely you will go to hell then you will not have choice
Strength is life and weakness is death.so choice is our if we choose good thoughts with strength than we become good and if we choose bad we become bad.Hare Krishna Prabhu ji 🙏🌷
Krishna is the doer and Krishna is the enjoyer. Krishna gives intelligence and Krishna gives forgetfulness. Krishna is suffering everyone's pain . Pains and pleasures are predestined. We are only "drashta". We are only puppets in Krishna's hand
@@frankweiss335 you don't understand the meaning of a puppet, we are instruments only and Krishna is sitting inside every instrument and making it move and do all the activities, that's why it is written in Bhagwat Gita that we can do things but can't control the outcome because instruments can do things,not by themselves but by the will of the user of that instrument, but instrument can't control the outcome of his activities
I am stuck with this question if Karma is also predestined and why we have to do anything at all and why do people reap actions of karma when everything is predetermined.... I still dont have a good answer. The best I want to agree is with Sri Ramana Maharshi's answer where he says: Absolutely everything is predetermined but only freewill is to AWAKE to the fact that karma is only attached, until there is an individual. One has to live your destiny well, experience everything on the destined path WHILE performing (dharma ( which are done by intentions and actions
Unless a person can accept the reality of predestination they will never experience non-doership. Ramana Maharishi said that everything is predestined. The thought of I, me and mine arises with identification of the body and as long as we are identified as the body we are subject to the karma and destiny of the body but when a person accepts predestination and realizes that everything is determined by cause and effect that person is free from Karma and realize the Self. God is the only doer and everything is working out according to His will.
Our choice is already pre determined we just given the illusion that we change our future by our choice now. But actually it’s not. Our future is written already and we have no control over it. Example I have a choice to comment on this post. But did I ever wonder I will comment on this? No it’s not my choice just stumble on this video with no apparent reason and I commented. I could not comment on this but before I watch this video my future is written for me to comment. So it’s not my choice.
that kind of reasoning is only valid at the surface. don't accept everything just because some "speaker" that you look up to says it. think ! you have a choice but you really don't. that choice will be made depending on your hormones, your upbringing, your surroundings and conditioning, all things that you were born into without your choosing. You can't teach someone to be ambitious or to love or courageous you either have it or you don't. Choose to become a champion at various things and see what happens... if it was meant for you it will happen but out of billions that will try that only 1 can be champion... how come ? they all chose it ! It is easily seen in some people that do weird thins uncontrollably, and that's because they don't have a choice. it may not be so apparent in your day to day life but the mechanics are the same. Anything is possible and noting is guaranteed !
NO .. WE ARE PREDETERMINED....WE DON'T HAVE FREE WILL... ASK YOUR SELF....DID SOMEONE OR DID GOD ASKED YOU TO BE BORN IN A WEALTHY OR POOR FAMILY ? ...
Does Karma really Exist? -(Robert Adams) Does Karma really exist ? I now that you can say "No it doesn't. But so long as you belleve that you are body and mind, as long as you feel the world to be real, you cannot fool yourself. Do not lie to yourself. If the world perturbs you, if people bother you, if things annoy you, if you are reacting to conditions this means that you believe you are a body going through the experience. And as long as you are going through experiences you are in karma. You are expersenesing the karma that put you here as body . It is only when you have realized the SELF that there is no karma Therefore do not go around telling people that there is no karma, it will do give them license to do anything they like Feeling there so no retribution, there is no effect for their deeds. This is not true as long as you believe you are a body. For there are laws of the universe that respond to your actions. Karma means action. And as long as you believe you are the actor you will have to experience the results of the karma. So in this particular life you are experiencing the results of not only the karma of this experience but of previous lives. Previous lives also come into effect whenever you believe you are the body. There are only two ways to destroy the karma. One is to inquire, "To whom this karma coms? Who is experiennіng this kаrma" And the other way to surrender completely to God. Totally surrender your life to God. God is within you as you. You therefore surrender everything to the self. Thy will be done You begin to see that as long as you have God to surrender to, you need not worry, you need not fear. Everything will be alright. *some errors might be there thanks for reading
This is wrong. Life is either all predetermined or it’s not, you don’t pick and choose what is predestined that’s the whole point of it being predetermined.
@@ajinkyagadekar7406 I understand it, short and sweet, obviously there's a-lot more that can be expanded, if everything we say, think, and even type, are know ahead of time, from the moment I wake up, to the moment I sleep, I don't have a choice of not doing otherwise, it's what is know as the 'illusion of free will,' as God see's everything that's happened in one moment, including all the typo's, the backspace button, the wrong keys typed, going back, whether the computer freezes or cuts off, whether you get hacked or terminated from TH-cam suddenly, then how can you choose otherwise, unless you can outwill God?
Probably, the most important question one should ask in order to live life with full responsibility, not just a burden.
I don’t think we have a choice. Destiny is predestined
I have seen powerful clairvoyant and predicted my future to the letter. How could they see into the future and happens. Because fate never changes and if you decide to do one thing with your WILL , it’s not the conscious you who made that decision, it’s YOU the soul compelling you to do it via your subconscious.
You are mostly correct but not fully. As Maharaj Ji said, our current destiny is the results of our past choices and our future destiny would be based on our current choices. For the current destiny - we only have choice to respond/react to the present situation (The is the only free will we have). Practically, the bigger events in our life (such as job, marriage, health etc) are for sure pre-destined (based on our past choices). But how we handle them presently is our choice. Hope that helps!
@@2809rajat Hi rajat..i read your comment.. i really wanna talk to you if possible..can u please let me know if its ok to call you?
Life is unpredictable, we can predict the outcomes, and thus we can choose.
Any choices were ment to happen, I guarantee.
Radha Nath Swami is going around this question of choice because there’s not clearcut answers whether we have choices or are they predetermined. My take is , there are no choices; everything is predetermined. Suppose someone smokes cigarettes until he gets lung cancer and dies. Death by lung cancer is predetermined and no forces can change that.
With due respects to you sir, I don’t entirely agree with your views. If everything is pre-determined then our life would be meaningless and a life of slavery controlled by an unknown entity ! I would say that our life can be controlled and moulded to a certain extent, though not entirely!
Not really sir,humans do have free will..just look at itihasas for that...let's take Mahabharata for example....all of lord Krishna's son's die becuase of the curse of a rishi so you can say that the death of lord Krishna's son is presdestined at that point...but the reason for which curse was given was because of the mischievous behavior of lord Krishna's sons(they actually put a pillow in their stomach and say that they are pregnant to the rishi so the rishi gets angry and curses them)so the reason for their death was ultimately becuase of their free will.....let's take another example the great king bharata mentioned in srimad bhagavatam.....he was a great king and renounced his kingdom during final stage of his life and was doing great tapasya..but he then gets attracted to a baby deer and at the time of death he remembers the baby deer and takes the birth of a baby deer in his next life...as lord Krishna says in Gita...whatever a person thinks of during his final breath,that state they shall attain in their next life...so humans have control over thier life by making Decisions and we do have free will...but we say our lives are mostly pre destined becuase marriage,carrier and health are granted by our past life karmas and as they make up most of the human life we say it's destined...but our decision making at moments in day to day life our completely in our control....like lord Krishna says in Gita...the spiritual insight of a person gets carried to the next lives so you could say you insight is destined but it's ultimately becuase you have developed it through out the life times...
@@Rajagopal3636 I respect your view Sir.
@@himeshthungaturthi3215 I respect your view sir.
What if it’s the perception of free will and not free will alone. How would we tell the difference. And what would be so bad about observing this life as the main character. This life is a blip in time so why the huge concern about free will. If we had true free will would we not do all the things we know we should do and not all the things we know we’re not supposed to do?
Would enjoying the perception of free will (but not actually having it) free us to look within? Allow detachment?
Beautiful explanation of the fact that we have choices and life is determined by the choices we make.
Yes, karma determined our choice- so we have an infinite amount of free will and predetermination, simultaneously.
But what if anybody gets really sick...that wasn't their choice yet it happend
If someone is going on a vacation but that person met an accident and died on the spot than the death was not his/her choice. His /her choice was vacation but that person died because it was written.
My question was that is our choices predetermined?
@@Desi_banking_06Not at all and yes also if you need some explaination let me know
All choices come from somewhere else to you, remember "your life is written"
Beloved Swamijhi Maharajh. Because of Your inspiring personality I am making a choice right now to make a Journey Inward. I have faltered on this path before but will try again and ... Thank You infinitely.
Thank you for helping me to understand more about our paths chosen.
If you were sent back in time to correct a bad choice you had made, but were unaware that you had been sent back, then you would make the same choice again, because lets say you were angry or drunk and it was that that made you make that choice. Then you would be still be drunk and angry no matter how many times you were sent back you would make the same mistake. Remember you are still in the same position when you go back, you are not aware of the future. This shows you that you only had one outcome. So no choice.
Thank you. My favourite video yet. Thank you HH Radhanath Swami
HH RADHANATH SWAMI MAHARAJ KI JAI
Such deep philosophy in simple happenings of life. Really elated.
Fundamental physics says we dont hv choice, we dont hv free will. At the inception of big bang of the universe all the future event of molecules of sub atomic level are predestined and offcourse our brain also made by atoms which is govern by the law of physics of the universe.
Sir, do you have any authentic research link to prove your statement? If yes, please post it hear. I would love to read it, as this sounds fascinating. Thanks!
Life is a choice
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Thank you maharaj🙏🙏
Really beautiful question and beautiful answer...I m blessed
Aatmiya Swami Ji.
Hare Krsna.
CHOICE is ONE of the THREE Constants in the universe.
(1) Change
(2) Principles
(3) Choice
Our knowledge, skills and desire are motivating us for choosing Appropriate resources to Experience HAPPINESS. Choice, as explained by your kindself is the ONLY one factor that is in our control while the other two are NOT.🙏🙏🙏
Loving you one and all Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
o my god...so beautifully spoken
Well that seems contradictive, I'm having a hard time with that, one says that we are free to choose and then another says there is no free will. Get it right please guys you don't know how much you are influencing people. My feeling is there is no one to make the choice! Who is it that is making the Choice?
Wonderful explanation.
But let me ask you this why did we choose it in the first place? The truth is our choices in our life is already pre determined our future is already written
Don't agree. Life is predestined. Look at 10 events that have occurred in your life in the past 3 years and see whether you were in control of them.
All that happened were based on your choices. You could only predict the outcome
You agree or not it's your choice. If you agree you are going to go to the higher planets after death and if not then definitely you will go to hell then you will not have choice
Strength is life and weakness is death.so choice is our if we choose good thoughts with strength than we become good and if we choose bad we become bad.Hare Krishna Prabhu ji 🙏🌷
Krishna is the doer and Krishna is the enjoyer. Krishna gives intelligence and Krishna gives forgetfulness. Krishna is suffering everyone's pain . Pains and pleasures are predestined. We are only "drashta". We are only puppets in Krishna's hand
So why krishna is not carrying not our Karma? Why we should do it if we re puppets?
@@frankweiss335 you don't understand the meaning of a puppet, we are instruments only and Krishna is sitting inside every instrument and making it move and do all the activities, that's why it is written in Bhagwat Gita that we can do things but can't control the outcome because instruments can do things,not by themselves but by the will of the user of that instrument, but instrument can't control the outcome of his activities
Omg to me he is genius... 🙏🙏
Brilliant explanation.
Nobody actually understands this subject and nobody has ever answered it for me.
True
🍃🕉🤗💐Hari Hari💐🤗🕉🍃
Sooooo Yes and no. OK, got it. 👌
Just a standpoint...point to be noted!
Hare krshna gurumaharaj dhandavath pranams your Lotus feet
Nicest prabhuji in iskcon 😍 specially 0.58
Everything is destined
How.. Can you explain.?
Hare Krishna
I am stuck with this question if Karma is also predestined and why we have to do anything at all and why do people reap actions of karma when everything is predetermined....
I still dont have a good answer. The best I want to agree is with Sri Ramana Maharshi's answer where he says:
Absolutely everything is predetermined but only freewill is to AWAKE to the fact that karma is only attached, until there is an individual.
One has to live your destiny well, experience everything on the destined path WHILE performing (dharma ( which are done by intentions and actions
I think destiny is determined by past life karma
Good explanation
HH RADHANATH SWAMI MAHARAJ JI KI JAYY JAYY🙇🩵 HARE KRISHNA JI HH RADHANATH SWAMI MAHARAJ JI DANDWAT PRANAM JI 🩵🙇
Wonderful ...Thanks
Somehow he said the truth
Unless a person can accept the reality of predestination they will never experience non-doership. Ramana Maharishi said that everything is predestined. The thought of I, me and mine arises with identification of the body and as long as we are identified as the body we are subject to the karma and destiny of the body but when a person accepts predestination and realizes that everything is determined by cause and effect that person is free from Karma and realize the Self. God is the only doer and everything is working out according to His will.
But isn’t it then also a choice to accept our predestiny? Who is making that choice can we choose liberation or consciousness
Our choice is already pre determined we just given the illusion that we change our future by our choice now. But actually it’s not. Our future is written already and we have no control over it. Example I have a choice to comment on this post. But did I ever wonder I will comment on this? No it’s not my choice just stumble on this video with no apparent reason and I commented. I could not comment on this but before I watch this video my future is written for me to comment. So it’s not my choice.
Hare krishna
Nice
that kind of reasoning is only valid at the surface. don't accept everything just because some "speaker" that you look up to says it. think ! you have a choice but you really don't. that choice will be made depending on your hormones, your upbringing, your surroundings and conditioning, all things that you were born into without your choosing. You can't teach someone to be ambitious or to love or courageous you either have it or you don't. Choose to become a champion at various things and see what happens... if it was meant for you it will happen but out of billions that will try that only 1 can be champion... how come ? they all chose it ! It is easily seen in some people that do weird thins uncontrollably, and that's because they don't have a choice. it may not be so apparent in your day to day life but the mechanics are the same. Anything is possible and noting is guaranteed !
Lovely
Great
Is our choices also predestined?
NO .. WE ARE PREDETERMINED....WE DON'T HAVE FREE WILL...
ASK YOUR SELF....DID SOMEONE OR DID GOD ASKED YOU TO BE BORN IN A WEALTHY OR POOR FAMILY ? ...
Does Karma really Exist? -(Robert Adams)
Does Karma really exist ? I now that you can say "No it
doesn't. But so long as you belleve that you are body and
mind, as long as you feel the world to be real, you cannot fool
yourself.
Do not lie to yourself. If the world perturbs you, if people
bother you, if things annoy you, if you are reacting to
conditions this means that you believe you are a body going
through the experience. And as long as you are going
through experiences you are in karma. You are expersenesing the karma that put you here as body . It is only when you have
realized the SELF that there is no karma
Therefore do not go around telling people that there is no
karma, it will do give them license to do anything they like
Feeling there so no retribution, there is no effect for their
deeds. This is not true as long as you believe you are a body.
For there are laws of the universe that respond to your actions.
Karma means action.
And as long as you believe you are the actor you will have to
experience the results of the karma. So in this particular life
you are experiencing the results of not only the karma of this
experience but of previous lives. Previous lives also come into
effect whenever you believe you are the body. There are only two
ways to destroy the karma. One is to inquire, "To whom this karma
coms? Who is experiennіng this kаrma"
And the other way to surrender completely to God. Totally
surrender your life to God. God is within you as you. You
therefore surrender everything to the self. Thy will be done
You begin to see that as long as you have God to surrender to,
you need not worry, you need not fear. Everything will be
alright.
*some errors might be there
thanks for reading
Karma works just as if we have eaten rotten food, the result will be food poisoning in OUR body.
Who we are?
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This is wrong. Life is either all predetermined or it’s not, you don’t pick and choose what is predestined that’s the whole point of it being predetermined.
These are not proper examples
U dont give a satisfaction answer of a Question.
Listen carefully at least 5 times..then u understand answer..
What did you not get ?
@@ajinkyagadekar7406 I understand it, short and sweet, obviously there's a-lot more that can be expanded, if everything we say, think, and even type, are know ahead of time, from the moment I wake up, to the moment I sleep, I don't have a choice of not doing otherwise, it's what is know as the 'illusion of free will,' as God see's everything that's happened in one moment, including all the typo's, the backspace button, the wrong keys typed, going back, whether the computer freezes or cuts off, whether you get hacked or terminated from TH-cam suddenly, then how can you choose otherwise, unless you can outwill God?
This budda has no answer he’s just making an examples on the question he was asked 😅
Everyone does this, Nobody knows shit about it. God is the only one who does