The non-reality of free will

[Cameron Reilly]

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From:   Allan Curry [SMTP:un824 at FREENET.VICTORIA.BC.CA]
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Subject:        Re: The non-reality of free will



>Was it Ramana Maharshi who said that absolute surrender to God amounted to
>the same thing as jnana?   But if we have no free will, what do we have to
>surrender? If we have nothing to surrender, might not the moments before
>and after absolute surrender be surprisingly similar?

What we surrender, I think, is the concept of free will, and the concept of
an individual being along with it. This surrendering, of course, is done
spontaneously and we (the illusory 'us') have no control over it.

Regards,

Cameron