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origin. Man can exercise his free choice and can act in freedom.
Dr. Radhakrishnan stresses on the necessity of Karma also. Man, according to him, is determined by his past but he is free to create his prospective karma also. For this purpose, he emphasises on the choice. There are so many alternatives left for man. It depends on man as to how to use it. This is the real freedom. But he is aware of the fact that man cannot consume all the potentialities in one life. So, he has to take birth after birth till the actualisation of all the actions performed by an individual. Hence rebirth is necessary for the soul's emancipation. That is why he says that the future of the man depends to a very great extent on man himself.
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