Do we have Free Will?
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Asatoma, Sathauma, Jotyrgamaya, |
| 0:15.0 | Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya, |
| 0:21.6 | Ome shanty, shanty, shanty. |
| 0:28.6 | Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, |
| 0:31.6 | lead us from darkness unto light, |
| 0:34.6 | lead us from death to immortality oh peace peace a very good |
| 0:47.1 | morning to all of you and another beautiful day in Manhattan. |
| 1:00.0 | Today, we're going to discuss this subject, Do we have free will? |
| 1:03.0 | It's an old, old question. |
| 1:07.0 | One reason I selected this subject is, |
| 1:10.0 | this is a question which has been asked here on numerous occasions. |
| 1:14.6 | Different people have asked on different occasions. |
| 1:17.6 | Do we have free will? |
| 1:19.6 | Or sometimes it's put in another way. |
| 1:21.6 | If everything happens by God's will, then I can do whatever I want then. |
| 1:28.3 | Why should I be punished for doing something bad? |
| 1:31.3 | Because God made me do something bad. |
| 1:34.3 | So this is how it is put. |
| 1:36.3 | But basically this is the question about free will. |
| 1:39.3 | So is there free will? |
| 1:41.3 | It seems like a question for philosophers, which it is, but in the gospel of |
| 1:46.8 | Sri Ramakrishna you find a number of occasions, and today we will discuss it, on a number |
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