Dr. Vyasanakere Prabhanjanacharyaru goes beyond the basics while talking about the fundamental qualities that make up a jeeva or living entity. Does the living entity have the ability to want or desire independent of God? What role does God play in inspiring a jeeva's actions? Can a living entity refuse God's will? Is the jeeva capable of being an independent doer? These questions & more are answered.
The video is fully indexed. Every question is clearly marked and has a timestamp.
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Q1. Did God create life?
01:03 Q2. Is the ability to desire (iccha shakti) God-given? Or is it an inherent quality of the living entity?
01:46 Q3. Did the living entity desire to come into this world or did God forcefully bring the living entity into this world?
03:13 Q4. How significant is the ability to desire?
04:33 Q5. Why would God put the living entities into a world filled with misery & suffering, against their will?
05:48 Q6. We see that many living entities suffer starting from birth itself. Why?
06:31 Q7. Is the living entity capable of choosing between good & bad?
07:42 Q8. Does God inspire a living entity's actions?
08:55 Q9. Does God force His will upon the living beings?
11:04 Q10. Often we see that our will to do bad deeds is higher. Why?
13:02 Q11. Can a living entity refuse God's will?
14:10 Q12. If the Lord doesn't inspire bad actions in the living entity, who else does?
16:46 Q13. Can the living entity override God's will?
17:38 Q14. How to know God's will (or prerane) from our own (desires)?
18:23 Q15. If the living entity has free will, how can an astrologer predict the entity's fate? Isn't astrology a farce?
21:14 Q16. What is jeeva kartrutva (or doership)?
22:38 Q17. Can we declare that the Lord is the one & only independent doer?
24:19 Q18. Does God influence a living entity's good or bad choices?
26:21 Q19. If God inspires bad actions in the living entity, why doesn't He suffer the consequences?
28:15 Q20. Let's say I did a good deed today. Were desire, motivation & effort involved my own or God-given?
29:12 Q21. Does the living entity have the independence to act on his own?
30:28 Q22. What is asvatantra kartrutva (dependent doership)?
31:56 Q23. What is the difference between kartrutva (doership) and svatantra (independence)?
33:03 Q24. What is datta svatantra (authorized independence)?
34:04 Q25. If everything is in God's hands, what is the living entity's role then?
37:41 Q26. When the Lord already knows the nature or svabhava of the living entity, why subject them to the miseries of this world to expose their true nature? He could directly send the living entities to their intended destination of heaven or hell. Right?