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fresh and are not an outcome of the past life karma. Such karma give us the opportunity to redeem the mistakes done in past and
liberate ourselves from the shackles of Karma and predestination. The liberation is not only from the negative karma, but also the
positive karma. As long as we need to experience the fruits of the karma, we need to take birth. We are free only when we have no
compulsion to take birth which we can attain when we realize that we are not the do'er of an action but just an instrument.
Why must there be free will?
The past life karma manifest certain conditions in this life in terms of in the circumstances in which we are born, they also manifest
certain traits, skills, talent, attitude and nature that makes us see the world in a certain manner and also act in a certain manner. In
summary, the past karmas per-disposes us towards things which are predestined.
However, the divine consciousness is not cruel through dispassionate. It gives us opportunity in little spurts to do actions which are not
pre-destined; actions that are fresh and those which has the ability to alter the ow of Karma. Without this, we become mere slave of
our past with no ability to do anything about it. Although many think that, that is the truth - it is a fatalistic viewpoint and is not
supported by the Shastras. Such thinking take one towards inaction and away from the notion of freedom.
The only way to attain freedom is to be mentally free. Lord Krsna teaches us to perform the karma in the most dispassionate way. He
advises us to keep doing our karma (duties and obligations) as if we are following an invisible master and not to be bothered about the
results of such action. This attitude towards action slowly and steadily liberates us from the self identi cation with the results and thus
also grant freedom from the outcome (for which we must take birth to experience). Such dispassionate action grants freedom mentally
and breaks the shackles that binds us from our past lives; which prod us to act in certain manner that is consistent with the results
acquired from the past life actions.
The concept of freedom is enlightening and empowering as this gives us the power to act to do things which enlighten us and not bind
us to this world. This also moves one closer and closer to the nal destination of liberation (from the cycles of life and death). This also
gives hope that there is a light at the end of the dark tunnel; that we are not doomed for ever into the quagmire of darkness and misery.
Although there is freewill, the ability to exert is not the same in everyone. People with higher spiritual evolution have relatively higher
freedom to determine their action and ability craft their future. Those who acknowledge the presence of a spiritual world and a divine
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force has higher likelihood of given freedom to break-free from the past karma and also start moving in the path to liberation.
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The water current is nothing but the material instincts that bind us, that prods us to act in a certain way. The instinct is strongest in
Tamas Guna (ignorance), moderate in Rajas Guna (passion) and least is Sattva Guna (knowledge).
While it is possible to become free as everyone in the world is given the root impulse of freedom, the ability to exert freedom depends
on the mode of one's nature. As one moves from Tamas->Rajas->Sattva, one gets more and more liberated. Finally the time comes
when one is completely free.
Jyotish's ability to predict
The ability of Jyotish (Vedic-Astrology) to predict depends on the level of predisposition and precondition binding a person. As long as
the action falls into a pattern, it can be predicted.
However, as one evolves in the spiritual evolution cycle, the freewill increases. As the freewill increases, Jyotish becomes lesser
and lesser effective in predicting the actions. The person having complete freedom has the ability to manifest any environment and
their actions are completely free from any preconditions. For such cases, it is futile to use Jyotish to predict. This is the reason why the
Shastras advises not to predict the death of spiritual souls, saints and mystics as they have the ability to chose when they want
to leave this mortal plane.
Where free will works, is Jyotish completely dysfunctional? The answer to this question is given by Prasna Marga by Harihara.
While the predisposition and precondition in which one has taken birth can be be seen from the conception chart and natal chart, the
alteration of the path by exertion of the freewill can cause inconsistencies in the prediction. Many predictions done based on the natal
chart can go wrong in such cases. Hence, the advise is to use Prasna (Horoscope of that moment) which shows the path of the soul at
that very moment!
If the Prasna indicate better combinations than the natal chart, this indicates the soul has progressed forward in this birth till the
moment of Prasna.
If the Prasna indicate adverse combinations than the natal chart, this indicates the soul had regressed backward in this birth till the
moment of Prasna.
If the Prasna neither indicate better nor adverse combinations, then the soul is just continuing in the path it has been following from
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past.
So, while using Jyotish to predict from natal chart can be futile in the cases of souls who have the ability to exert freedom, there is a
way to decipher them using Prasna. Hence a combination of Natal Chart and Prasna Chart can be used to predict everything at every
stage. The Prasna chart should be given more weightage in the cases of souls having higher power to exert freedom.
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