--- In [email protected], "mathatbrahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---You mean the question of free will. The jury's out on this > question, which we (and philosophers going back thousands of years), > have gone over before. Choice may or may not "really" exist; but in > any event, our lack of knowledge concerning the future, and karmic > interactions in general, serve us a plate of alternative "apparent" > choices, and there's currently no proof as to the nature of > the "realness". I realize that some Gurus - like Ramana Maharshi - > say there's no free will; but why should his statement be believed; > especially in view of the statements regarding karma: that karma is > unfathomable - even for Sages?. Ramana is a Sage but this doesn't > make him an expert in karma.
Sages like Maharishi and Ramana Maharshi will have different colours in their expression of reality. That is life. Try reading Robert Svobodas third book on his Guru Vimalananda and you will find a fellow with very detailed knowledge of Karma indeed. Every word in that book is like; if Maharishi would write a book on Karma, this is what He would say. Very entertaining, knowledeable, sweet and humerous. There are no experts in karma, and > there's no proof or even evidence for Ramana's assertion, other than > the appeal to authority.
