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The Divine Couple: Sri Sri Radha and Krishna

The Divine Couple: Sri Sri Radha and Krishna

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Answers According to Vedic Knowledge

Question: Do We Really Have Free Will?

Dear Guru,

Do we really have free will? Once knowing that the material world gives us suffering, no one would choose to stay over here. So Krishna actually sent us here to suffer. And when we say that factually we are Krishna's eternal servants, that means those qualities were programmed in us by Krishna. So there is no other way than loving Krishna. He wanted us to love and surrender to him. So then we don't have any free will.

Kindly enlighten me on this topic.

Hare krishna,
Shreyansh

Answer: We Have Free Will

Yes, we have free will. We are not robots. We decide on our own whether we want to serve Krishna or Maya (illusion). Krishna did not send us here. We came here because we wanted to live in a world in which we consider ourselves to be God. Thus we came here out of our own foolish desire.

The present day world population is so carried away by illusion that even when we tell them that this material world is a place of suffering, due to their being very materially attached, they still most foolishly desire to stay here.

Just as the hand is naturally meant to serve the entire body, we being part of Krishna are naturally meant to serve Him. Just as there is nothing wrong when the hand serves the whole body, similarly there is nothing wrong when we serve Krishna. If the hand tries to get nourishment by squeezing the food in his fingers without giving it to the stomach, he will get no nourishment. Similarly, if we try to enjoy separately from Krishna, we will find that it is impossible, even though sometimes we may foolishly imagine that we are happy here in this material world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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