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by Cristian Ion From the yogic perspective, free will means the absolute freedom of the being – a metaphysical freedom expressed through the possibility of any choice within one’s own destiny (karma) or through the undefined suspension of choice, up to indifference (the freedom of indifference).
Free will implies the existence of an absolute independence of the human being, the complete possibility of the individual to make decisions without considering exterior factors and their effect on the person’s existence. The expression “free will” refers to one of the ways of understanding the notion of freedom in yogic philosophical thinking. In this understanding, freedom appears as an infinite force. Its unique support is the Immortal Self (ATMAN), which manifests unsuspected through the individual will. The Supreme Self (ATMAN) is the only one that is able to choose and to be responsible for any choice, regardless of any outer demands and requests. For the human being that exercises it as often as possible, free will becomes an absolute power of choice. It shows the intrinsic divine human ability to decide over a certain way of action, independent of the series of external necessary determinations. The yogic conception of free will does not exclude knowing and interiorizing the necessity. In fact, this conception entails a real freedom, integrated in the divine laws of the Macrocosm, as the yogi does not deny, at the subjective level, the necessity. This means that he aims to take it into consideration, because he is aware that he cannot really objectively avoid the influence and implications of necessity in his actions or choices unless he refers to certain superior divine plans of manifestation which make it possible to transcend these necessities. For this, the best example is that of miracles – miracles based on Divine Grace most often have the effect of suspending certain suffering, difficulties, gaps, frustrations, etc., which are otherwise necessary from the karmic perspective of a certain being. To stupidly deny necessity does not erase it. In this direction, Hegel considered that the effects of satanic or demoniac egotist freedom are never positive. In the perspective of psychopathological disturbances, the criterion of free will can function in a false way as a choice criterion for a neurotic person, in the case of which choices are motivated by a fictitious purpose, through an imaginary conversion or a disguise of desire. These choices imply emotional immaturity and in most cases they hide a strong dependency, which manifests at the unconscious level as a response to an unconscious necessity. Taken from yogaestoeric.net http://www.yogaesoteric.net/content.aspx?lang=RO&item=3841
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