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He's spot on! Surprisingly,this thought was dawned on me while meditating few weeks ago. So true! "Actions of free will in the past,becomes your destiny now and actions of free will now,adds to your destiny". PS:I know people wouldn't understand the depth of this wise statement;I wouldn't have too, lest it is personally felt!

we learn so much information and proud to be Santana dharma . jai shree rama Bharat matha ki jai.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar described free will and destiny in a beautiful manner through an example , our weight is a free will and height is our destiny .

We have "free will" to lift one leg in any direction,to do anything(पुरुषार्थ); but at the same time , the another leg is always tied with ground by gravity of Prarabdh(प्रारब्ध).

Living legend Shri PVR Narsimha Rao

Very interesting concepts being discussed. I need many repetitions to understand this outstanding series based on Vaigyanik Jyotish vidya. Dhanywaad to team

I loved the free will destiny piece - today's destiny is yesterday free will. However the events of life of a person don't depend on just that person alone but people around him and by extension,their karmas, environment he is in (PESTLE) . That is when it gets complicated.

one of the greatest no doubt!

Insightful and educative. Endorsed vedantic teaching often stated by Swami Vivekananda 'I am the maker of my own destiny'.

Lot of things Sh PVR said makes lots of sense. Defining destiny and the present day free will was very informative. Hope to continue the series and learn more!

Narasimharaoji is very learned and this was a wonderful interview. I love this format - the questions are probing and rational and allows Narasimharaoji to logically explain so that many people get the correct understanding of what Jyotisha does. There is one point where things can be described slightly differently. This is my understanding. See, like he said prarabdha is the karma you have experience in this life. The analogy is a pot of boiling water. Now the "free will" part of life is if you experience your karmas more quickly and in the process create as less of bad karmas as possible. So if you do things well, then you come out of the experience in a much better shape. All negative karma experience is basically a learning the soul has to take which it ignored or did bad towards in the past. For e.g. suppose you have to experience a bad relationship with father, now you can either go through it with resilience, not retaliating - shouting at father or others, just taking it in. On the other hand another person faced with same situation can react in a very negative manner and he may do bad things to others. So this is where things can diverge for two individuals. They may have come with the same type and level of karma but go through in this lifetime differently and hence one evolves spiritually upwards, while other one goes down. Here is where remedies come in. When you do mantras or sadhanas, then you are making the pot boil quickly, so instead of going through terrrible experience and all the consequent things, you put your mind to God and do penance. That not only resolves these karmas but also puts you on the right path "Free Will" is a useless term. The right term should be "listening to Guru" - when one truly and properly listens then one gets the right insight which helps take the right path and hence alter the Destiny to come. If a man uses his own mind, he will go down - because mind just wants to do bhoga, experience the senses. One must let a higher mind or higher intellect to guide one.

8:34 topic freewill Vs destiny

the best video in this series with Narasimha rao ji.. i liked the term of karma balls.. wonderful

My views on Rao’s explanation are similar based on my interaction with a friend who is very good at Prashana shastra. In fact he recommends solution to any of my friends issues when I present their problem on phone. Every human is not only changing his karma minute to minute but also contributing to society / nations karma.Further a family units karma is summation of husband+ wife+ children’s karma. Also vastu of their residence plays a role. Hence jyotishyam prediction is a blue print provided to an individual mainly to understand direction in life, but he has to do karma or will be forced to do karma. Only a niswarth astrologer will have intuition power to explain result of charts and of course with divine permission. Just imagine how ones karmic result is linked to entire human karmas, hence its manifestation has no fixed time. It can happen from any time , which no human, even god cannot predict. Thanks Rao garu for promoting Jyothi shastra, which gives hope to human believers. Namaste.

Outstanding subject and description by Shri Rao. Very clear and logical. He should be encouraged to offer a basic overview course in Jyotisha and Karma at cisindus.org. Would love to understand a little more.

Yes free will does exist, no doubt about it. But some things are constant and pre-destined, for example the family you were born, the diseases some may get at birth, the richness or poverty at birth, being born in a brahmin or shudra or mlecha family etc, all these pre-destined based on past karma, and not much you can do to change this. I feel very pained when how destiny is misunderstood in a massive way and how this misunderstanding is tarnishing the science of astrology. Thank you PVN rao for your insights.

In the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna explains the different kinds of yoga , karma yoga, buddi yoga, bhakti yoga etc in the yoga ladder. The particular yoga determines, the consciousness in which one executes his karmas of thought, words and action. These karmas binds the jivaatma in the endless cycle of birth and death. The goal of the jiva is to achieve mooksha. In order to achieve mooksha , one has to finish his karma, both good and bad , in a sense burn them up completely. How to do this ? Krishna explains if you act in Niskama karma ( action in the interest of Krishna ) , one can burn up the good and bad karma and achieve mooksha. Of course this requires proper understanding and training. What is the point of doing puja if it doesn't interrupt karma phala.

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Thank you for this wonderful interview. Please upload the continuation.

Actions create destiny: Sow a action, reap a tendency Sow a tendency, reap a habit Sow a habit, reap a character Sow a character, reap a destiny Destiny is in our own hands Suffering karma in this birth: Adruda: will go away with actions/self-effort Drudadruda: can be decreased/mitigated but will not go away Druda: one has to suffer 100% (especially strong karmas)

you explain very nicely and logically. That's why Inner Engineering is a must for every one. Pranam

Beautifully explained 🙏

Destiny is defined as consolidated fruits of actions undertaken in all previous times including previous lives.They form in a seed of the causal body n become the very basis of one's Nature (स्वभाव).The way one feels,perceives or thinks is solely dependent upon this स्वभाव

Very good explanation..informative

I really hope to learn prashna someday.. It's really fascinating to know that the universe is showing omens and signs that answer each question that you might have at any moment. It's just that we've lost the ability to decipher the signs to understand the answer. Saw some examples readings by Karen White astrology, it was really fascinating..

Very nice explanation. Thanks Sir

One may not be able to change one's destiny or karma is the short run but one can change the way one experiences them. By accepting them first and find means to get over bad karmas and accumulate good ones through by developing virtues and purity. It is said that the pure devotee of the Lord is always grateful and cheerful even under trying circumstances. In today' context no matter what your circumstance it is far better than that of migrant workers on the run or those afflicted with virus or those who are responsible for treating them (Although they might be getting rid of negative Karmas and creating positive ones. The real smart ones therefore be willing to face their Karmas head on (do you have any other choice)?

We await more such episode of Mr Rao please make more sessions

Very good

wonderfull

great

... these are just the bricks given by birth we have to work with ... one can choose what to build ... a castle or a bunker 😉

If we carry forward samskaras from past life then that is there to deal with - karmas wil be felt no matter what actions we take. “The best laid plans of mice and men often gang awry” So free will is limited to the freedom to act - the result is not always predictable or the desired result.

Very nice

Very well said 👍

When one became many,free will became limited.

Koti koti naman

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All bodily possessions are a bridge to connect spirit with mortal existence. We are not this body. The chakra of karma and fate is universe's way of intruducing and removing (creating and destroying) everything.

one can undergo shoonya intensive course of ISHA foundation to understand about Praarabdha, Sanchita etc.,

There is no free will at casual level.

The entire idea of free-will is bogus. If kayika, vachika manasika karma now is a result of previous karmas (remember our body, our nature etc. which drive present karmas are also from prarabdha karma which is part of sanchita karma), how is there a "free-will"? On the other hand, if "free-will" is not there, why are we held responsible for our karmas? So what is "free-will"? What is "will" in the first place and what is it free from or how is this "will" independent? The German philsopher Arthur Schopenhauer has written a beautiful article on "On the Freedom of the Will". He asks the question "Can you will what you will?" This is an important question that reveals all willing takes place instantly at a point of time without any previous conscious willing of the will. Even if you answer yes for the first question again another question can be asked. "Can you also will what you will to will?" and thus questions can go ad-infinitum. At some point you have to agree that some will instantly occurred and you do not know how and why? Thus so called free-will is not free at all, i.e. this will is NOT under our conscious control. Thus free-will does NOT exist. Then why are we held responsible for karma? Since this will (from which all kayika, vachika, manasika acts proceed) appears as per our svabhava (intrinsic nature) which is covered by "anadi avidya" we are responsible for karma. One who gets rid of this "anadi avidya" gets rid of karma.

Excerpts from yoga vashista: In this world, whatever is gained is gained only by self-effort. Failure is because of the slackness in the effort. What is called fate is fictitious, and is not seen. Self-effort is mental, verbal and physical action which is in accordance with instructions of a holy person who knows scriptures. It is only by such effort that Indra, Brahma and other deities earned their places. Self-effort is of 2 categories: That of past births and that of this birth. Self-effort of this birth effectively counteracts the former. Fate is none other than self-effort of a past incarnation. There is a constant conflict between these two in this incarnation and that which is more powerful triumphs. There is no power greater than right action in the present moment. One should strictly follow self-effort even if painful, and one should overcome evil by good and fate by present effort. What is called fate or divine will is nothing other than the action or self-effort of the past. The present is infinitely more potent than the past. Those were satisfied with the fruits of the past effort and do not put any self-effort are fools. When someone gets very lucky, this is due to the self-effort of the past birth. If the farmer whose efforts are made fruitless by a Hailstorm, the Hailstorm’s own power was greater than the farmer’s effort and the farmer should put forth greater effort now.

My question is who will judge KARMA... Do human have right to judge ??

Sir, I completely agree that positions of all heavenly bodies is governed by science. However, what is the extent and type of evidence to prove that heavenly bodies influence us. Any type of evidence is fine. Anything other than take it because someone said it in the past. This is not an arrogant question. It is a genuine question in search of an answer.

kp astrology... ( krishnamoorthy pattadi ) His horary principles are very interesting if you come across a good practitioner.. On freewill , people can read Sam harris book on free will.. Saibaba says ( in a book written by one of his disciples ) : You have freewill within a predetermined world...( It took plenty of years for me to come to terms with that concept....) You can also read Ramesh balsekar on freewill where he says: act as if you have free will while at the same knowing that you do not. " All that led me to say : your life is predetermined but you will never know the future accurately.. If you attempt to know it , then that attempt becomes part of predetermination leading you back to the position of, you having freewill. (It is like thomas young's double slit experiment where the light seems to know the future. and changes its nature to go as wave form instead of particle form and vice versa) question ; do you have free will ? ans : yes and no ! but then, homams, parigarams, poojas have their own merits.. do them also... On a practical level, forget astrology and think along these lines: : what problems you have now ? what is it that you want ? how to go about solving them? That is where the action is... that is where the mind needs to be focussed on...Mostly it will lead you to try and act or at times to accept what happens..

Prarabda karma is what the Soul is born with to exhaust in the given life. Here the soul acts through the mind and senses. While spending your karmas you also create new ones. Here it is not possible to discern the new ones from the prarabda. One can minimise new karmas by acting with " nishkama" that is do your action but leave the result to the God. Never have expectations. This is very tricky. Life is like that.

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Few question to Mr Rao about Jyotish :1. Does getting any puja done, making a pandit do japa for your graha dosha, wearing precious stones which has got some mantras done on them affect your karma or its for your mental satisfaction only? 2. If you do not start some thing on auspicious muhurat (or time), why should that matter? That time has nothing to do with your karma, or if some other time negates bad effect of your past karma or increases effect of karma how sound or just is karma it self which is affected by things like this. 3. Do you recommend that Govt of India or US should have fleet of Rajjyotish (like we used to have in India) which will check auspicious time for every major initiative (eg launching of spaceshuttle, surgical strike, launching Arogya setu or HealthcareMarket Place in US etc). 4. Do you agree that Jyotish not a science in the generally accepted definition that: Has evidence based , clearly defined procedures which will give repeatable results under defined conditions + have falsifiable hypothesis). 5. I have heard of this types of karma (which Indian have not) but am not sure which text book talks about it, or which text book has talked about it first. If I can get the name would be great. Thank you,

whoa - arrows have left the bow of Rudra! so that's what the Rudram is asking?

All freedoms are contextual and limited.

Hi Rajiv ji namaste please collaborate with chaitanya Charan das of iskcon he has lot of knowledge regarding karma and bhakti

Dear Sir, What came first at the time creation of humans - Free Will or Karma? If you say current destiny is the free will of the past, them when first humans came into existence, did they come with free will or destiny?

I want to consult Shri PVR NARSHIMHA RAO Jee. How can I consult? Will someone share his official contact details?

'Pāsupathi-upanishad' deals with destiny and free will. Human is equated with Pasu(animal- which follows his masters instructions) because he does what his Budhi(intellect) decides and "Budhi karma anusarina" - his karma decides what his budhi instructs and reap specific karma phala that becomes his destiny! If individual surrenders to divine (Pasupathi- the real owner), submits his will to divine's wishes, then his deeds get freed from his 'destiny-bound Budhi' and his will becomes 'free-Will'! As he says, if destiny/ past actions determines the free-will now, how can it be called 'FREE' WILL ?! What jyotishya helps is to unleash this potential in an individual and not just predicts your destiny

Karma after being born...that's also controlled by our horoscope...free will and choice of karma is a myth...we are playthings in this drama. What you're doing now in this video is also dictated by your planets and not your choice.

Everything is free will ultimately. We control the scenarios in the simulation.

This heading is misleading. Karma an action is done as per duty dharma and it varies on birth karma and response. Free will cannot be included as part of karma action.

TOTAL BS.

Wrong explanation of free will and destiny. They are totally different from each other.