Full Video: Is life pre-destined? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2021)
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00:00There are some scriptures in the Hindu text which suggest that everything we do is predestined.
00:06There is no such scripture, please.
00:09You have choice.
00:11Nobody is operating you through a remote control from some other Lok.
00:16You have choice.
00:17Now that choice can be a boon or a bane.
00:20It depends on you.
00:21Choose rightly and life is heavenly.
00:24Choose wrongly and you will live as commoners do.
00:28You are condemned to be a choosing agency.
00:31Choiceless in having a choice.
00:33Even if you tell yourself you don't have a choice, it is a choice you have made.
00:37So choose rightly and do not play the dirty game of attributing your wrong choices to some God.
00:45If you suffer today, it is because somewhere you have been making wrong choices.
00:49Now do not say this is what God has had in store for you.
00:53No, no, no.
00:54It's not about your horoscope or God or something.
00:57Don't even call it a random event.
00:59Random events can inflict pain on you.
01:03Suffering is always a choice.
01:05You chose wrongly, therefore you suffered.