Will & Determinism

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there is no free will and everything is

being determined by genes and

conditioning

why it is right

and what do you mean by the will

is there a will

or how does it look like

and you will need to go into the depths

of your own mind

what happens when you will you see

before you can say it is free or not or

before you can say everything is

determined or done by me

you will need to go into the mechanism

of the will

what is it

most people do not ask this question

they they assume that i know what is

will

i know what is willing

it is only word for many people

isn't it now i'm taking you one step

deeper

i could have given you the answer but i

told you though i gave you the warning

in the beginning it's not going to be

satisfactory

humans don't like this thing

there is a kind of what you say

resistance in the mind

about

its own nature

therefore

it has to be seen

you cannot simply tell them look there

is

no will there

go home now is not going to be

satisfactory

so what i'll do i'll take you in the

mind

and check the action of willing

you can do it right now also will

something

and pay attention what happens

for example i am now willing

to drink a little bit of water

it is my free will

looks like it look it looks like that

there this desire appeared in my mind

because i wanted it to appear

check my

statement now i can go ahead and drink

the water that is you know external

action that we are not

concerned about that

building has happened after that it is

totally determined the will will travel

through the nervous system

to the body and in the world and the

action will happen

that is not the issue here the issue is

you will need to look at my statement

that the desire to drink water

appeared in my mind because i wanted it

to appear

this is what i mean by willing

just a simple example you can take any

example you want you say please say this

this is the key i'm giving you

when the will appears there is a thought

in the mind

that it has appeared because i wanted it

to appear

i made it appear

look at this sentence again it has the

word want

what is want another desire

i desired

for this desire to appear

now if there is the wanting behind every

desire

not every let us say a few desires

the conscious

free-willed

desires

then

it you know begs the question

there is a necessity now

for this wanting to have a wanting

what caused this desire to want me to

have this desire

now probably it is already very

difficult for you

so let us go back to the

question again

what has made this desire

to drink water appear

you can say there will be a thought in

the mind i wanted this to appear that is

my free will

now what wanted this desire to be there

and now you go to infinite regression

which is a sign in the philosophy we say

it is a sign when something goes like

this forever

why why why why and what is the cause of

it is a sign that we are on the wrong

track

it is a sign that this is not true

you see like for example the uh

the first question i took the need of a

creator if something

needs to be there

only because of a creator that the

creator needs to be there because of

another creator and it will go to

infinite regression

so what we do we discard the whole idea

we say this idea does not apply here

so whatever happens in the mind

there is a cause but you will never find

the cause

what what is causing the desire

is not an entity called you the thought

is like this you know i wanted this

now if you go in the depths of wanting

then you will get to the infinite

regress

then you now examine the i word the i

thought

the eye also appears as a thought

something happens in the mind and a

process also arises with it which says

that i did it because the mind needs to

keep track of

the actions happening through this

organism

and actions not happening through this

organism it divides the actions like

this

why does it want

to keep track of these things

is survival you see

this organism the mind of this organism

needs to know what it is doing

needs to know what is happening in here

so everything that happens through this

body everything that happens through

this mind and speech

is owned and you know it is damned as i

this is what you call as i or in

sanskrit

and note the difference between the self

and i

the self is not the i

the self or the consciousness is a

witness of all this activity

you can witness it right now you see he

do do the action of willing and the self

is witnessing it

the we say after this analysis with

direct scene you see

if you remove all your conditioning all

your ignorance about this simply by

direct seeing

directly seeing how your mind

acts and checking the the meanings of

the words that it uses to form thoughts

you can disintegrate this whole thing

and destroy this whole illusion

of a doer and i

and willing

and and a wish to will a want to will

and so on

this you will find this simply loop

which refers to itself again and again

and this goes on in the mind

this is the this is the waking state of

the mind you see

so what we do is we disregard this

thought so here also we say that the

willing

and i that do not mix do not say like

this that my actions are willed

because you won't find any meaning there

now for the ego or the hankar this is

very

dissatisfactory answer because it will

fall back into its i thought

no no i'm doing it i'm very very sure

that i am doing it

look i picked up the glass and i had a

sip of water

it happened because of my will

so it is very tricky

you will need to go back to your self

again and again and again

you will go and need to go back to the

direct seeing again and again and again

and then you can dismantle this

illusion of the doer

and you will see that the other answer

is

that action is happening

isn't it you cannot say that nobody is

doing it so no action is happening no

the action is happening so what is the

other alternative it is happening

because of the programming of the mind

which is the memory of the mind

and whatever is happening through the

body is the conditioning of the body

which is genetic conditioning

what is genetic conditioning it is also

a memory

memory of the lower layers of the mind

it is memory of the mother nature it is

being conserved in the form of

genetic material and it expresses again

and again and again in various life

forms so again a memory there

so the higher layers have their own

memory and that is happening that is

what we call as the g

so it attaches itself to the form

because the first option has failed you

have the second option

and check that it is not being done

it is always happening

you will find something very important

here

that the maya appears

that's all

it is an appearance nothing is happening

there

everything is appearing then the mind

comes in the picture and connects all

the dots

isn't it

why is there a plant well somebody has

planted a seed

and then you know it makes a story out

of these appearances

a logical sounding story

and whatever happens to this body this

organism this jeep you see

differentiate between the self and the

jeep

jiv means the sum total of the human

mind you see

whatever that is taking births

whatever that is dying

so whatever is happening through this

part of the maya

this is all maya this body and jeeve

so it will again create a story and you

know very logical story

perfectly logical because

this helps in survival

if you don't create this story well

survival is you know gone

it will be a dysfunctional mind

so this illusion is a necessity

the illusion of free will is necessary

for the organism to function in this

relative reality

the transactional

world otherwise it will fail it will you

know this organism will not survive so

it has evolved like this

it in the human beings and it has

evolved so much that there is ego now

and it is

actually controlling there is illusion

of control also

it controls itself you can see

for example if you make a robot looks

like it is controlling itself it wants

to walk through the

door does not want to bump in the wall

and so on

but what is behind the robot there is a

program there is a memory and is simply

executing that

and if you make it complicated enough it

will look like as if

the robot has a mind of

his own

and we will start calling that thing as

a living being

you can see in the nature the insects

and the tiny animals they are almost

robots you see they are forms of the

same consciousness but

they are memories

memories of some kind

so we know this important characteristic

of the maya that it simply appears

and the mind will make the connections

in what is appearing

this is another layer of illusion on

what is already an illusion

so then do i have no will at all

this whatever i is

you see the ego has no will that is

that is kind of certain

the ego itself is a program it's very

sophisticated that's all

right now whatever you're hearing

whatever this thing is saying is already

all programmed you see coming from the

memory

is there no will at all now let me twist

your mind a little bit

there is a will

it is only one action

look at your awareness

the awareness is the is the action of

the mind where it you know realizes that

there is a consciousness behind

all that appears

this is the awareness this is the

highest layer in the human mind

when you shift to awareness

this does not come from the memory

when you are in the awareness this does

not come from the memory there is no

programming in the mind that will show

you that look there is a consciousness

no programming

now i leave it as an exercise for you

this is the greatest sadhna

in in the practice in this world in maya

you will need to use the words belonging

to the maya

nothing wrong there please do not mix

the absolute with the relative

that is what people do and then they get

confused oh he said there is no free

will but i am doing everything

you see our society is based on free

will

if i kill somebody this is i cannot say

that

it is happening it is maya it is

no you will be given punishment

don't give up your free will just

because you know that there is no such

thing

you will need to use it

just like we are using this body

although we know that it is also an

appearance it also appears

we still use it

we do not you know kill the body

that is not the proper way to get

liberated

the maya do not act from

the absolute in the absolute do not act

from maya