FATE AND FREEWILL

 Every action has an equivalent and opposite reaction according to Science! In the same way all or actions, good or bad, in the past and the present have their effects and reactions!! People argue that Fate & and Freewill are mutually contradictory! Where is the question of Fate or predetermination when there is Freewill? If there is Freewill there is no Fate! There is a fallacy in these statements! This brings us to the Karma Theory in our religion. Other religions do not have any such thing like what we have. The question of unmerited suffering cannot be explained  by other religions! Why are people born dumb, deaf, lame, and with disabilities both physical and mental? They answer that it is the will of God! But in Hinduism we explain all these things by the Karma Theory1

    The Bhagavdgita and other authorities accept Karma Theory! People are born according to their past good or bad deeds. We have no choice in deciding the place, time and the region where we are born! If our actions are good we are born in good and rich families and have comfortable lives! Otherwise we come into poor and ordinary families and suffer.Our Mind acts according to the dictates of our past Karma. " Buddhih karmanusarini" In accidents many people die. but a child or a man escapes and we call it a miracle! It is not a miracle! It is not the child's karma to die. So some one spots the child and rescues it! On the other hand some one suffers an accident and lies on the road but no one notices him. Those who see him do not help him! By the time he is taken to the hospital he is declared dead! Here he is predetermined to die!
     
     Freewill is what is called independence within a limit! But it is not the opposite of Fate. It works within a circle but cannot go beyond! It is like a cow tied up to a peg in a place. The cow is fastened but it has a freedom to go round to the extent that the rope allows! It cannot release the peg and escape. Freewill is influenced by the tendencies or Vasanas that the soul has developed in its previous births. Our mind and Freewill, therefore, are dictated by our own Karma or good and bad deeds! The idea of Freewill is our own imagination!!