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THE TRUTH
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28–FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION.
The eternal enigma of Free Will and Karma or Predestination is easily solved. Karmas (destiny) only act through the disposition, by altering and modifying the impulses. Free Will is really only the doing of what one likes to do, that is of the action that is most agreeable to one's nature !
The whole thing is only a question of the standpoint from which the question is approached. If we decline to or do not look into the antecedents of the disposition (individual will), every real action performed hy a living being is free; when the attention is directed to the forces that are responsible for the shaping of the disposition itself, no action is capable of being completely detached from such forces, and therefore free.
With regard to the teaching of the Truth, too, it may be said that it will not be acceptable to those whose dispositions stand in the way of its acquisition. They will not be kept away from it by any external force, but only by their own dispositions. As a matter of fact they will rather delight in rejecting the teaching, and claim the privilege of exercising their free will to reject it, as it will not be agreeable to their nature. But what is this free will of theirs it not a type of character which disposes (or rather predisposes) their will against the Truth?
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