Hmmm.....Does not Hinduism believe in the soul? Let's say, for discussion's sake, that I am equating the word "you" with soul. Then, *you* are the author of your actions....living out, resolving and creating karma, influenced by the gunas, in spite of and despite countless contributing factors.
Now, perhaps we are defining the word "you" differently? Hypothetically absolute versus relative? ---In [email protected], <yifuxero@...> wrote : Right, it's the Gunas. The idea that a "you" is problematic since the components that comprise the relative "you" are . interconnected with the environment, and in a deterministic worldview the precise author can't be determined due to the countless contributing factors. Thus, the "author" as MMY says could only be the Gunas, within the context of the Totality and of an individual body mind, the latter often being identified as a direct physical agent. Since karma is unfathomable, that means that countless prior causes may have contributed to the Vegas killer's actions, and the actual physical act is the tip of a huge iceberg of contributing factors. For purposes of justice, only the direct agent is held accountable.
