The non-reality of free will

[Allan Curry]

Jonathan Bricklin writes:

>.....  And, finally, the feeling of will and effort is derivable from
>the interplay between opposing thoughts.  All of which, I believe, can be
>read as a gloss on 7.12 of the Bhagavad-Gita:  "And whatever states of
>being there may be, be they harmonious, passionate, slothful--know thou
>that they are all from Me alone.  I am not in them;  they are in Me."
>

-- and perhaps the witness of thought is no more its owner than the sky
   is the owner of the birds that fly through it...

Namaste,

        -Allan Curry