[Advaita-l] Is Human Endeavour far stronger than Sanchit Karma (Collected Ones) or Prarabdha

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste Abishek ji.
You have asked a very problematic question. You see, often opponents of
hinduism pose the same question. Is there any free will? If you say that
one can use his budhi and act accordingly, the budhi and manas both are
products of the prarbdha karma. Here is another issue, who is the "jeeva"
who has free will? The atman in the jeeva is just a seer and no
action/sankalpa can be ascribed to it. Then who has free will? The
budhi/manas complex? These are just jada('objects"), how can they have free
will? They are nothing but an amalgam of karmas and driven by prakriti.
The madhwas dont have this problem. They accept there is no free will and
the svabhava decides the destination of jeevas.

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 05:16, abhishek prasad via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> Sincere Question:
> 1. It is said that there is no excuse for mistakes we make. We have to pay
> the price for each and every act we perform here ; that may be good or
> evil. We are just all the manifestations of all karma done by.
>
> 2. Or can we say that Human Endeavour is far stronger than Sanchit Karma
> (Collected Ones) or Prarabdh? Through Human endeavor we can lessen our past
> collected karma or may eradicate (root out) these past deeds from scratch
> and get liberated.
>
> Which out of two is more powerful and stronger ...   The Luck (Prarabdh) or
> the Human endeavor?
> As my understanding says that human endeavor is far stronger than all luck
> or past karmas.
>
> Please do enlighten me correctly on this...
>
> Regards.
> Abhishek
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards.
> *Abhishek Prasad*
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