Everything is Predestined || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Is life pre-destined? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2021)

Transcript

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.