Karma vs Fate: Are You Destined or Do You Have Free Will?

Is your life predetermined, or do you create it through your choices? The answer from the Vedantic tradition is more layered - and more empowering - than either extreme.

The Question That Haunts Every Seeker Is your life written in advance, or are you writing it as you go? This question has haunted philosophers, theologians, and ordinary human beings for as long as we have been capable of asking it.

And the answer you give - whether you believe in fate, free will, or something in between - shapes everything about how you live.

If everything is predetermined, then effort is pointless and responsibility is an illusion.

Why meditate? Why try to be a better person? Why give a damn about anything if it's all scripted? If everything is the product of free will, then suffering is entirely your fault and the universe is indifferent to your struggles.