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It is not (an accident) determined even by karma?

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"It is not determined even by karma"

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Yes. In higher sense it is also like that. That means from God's eyes even the so-called accident is also predestined.
Philosophy Discussion on William James:

Devānanda: In the Bhagavad-gītā even the human behavior is predicted like that. Through the later chapters it is described how people will act in different modes of nature, and they all behave that way.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Just like in Bhāgavata it is calculated that lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam. In the Kali-yuga, in this age, people will think by keeping their long hair he has become beautiful. Now, then, see all the hippies. That is written in the Bhāgavatam in India. How it is happening in Europe? Now the Indians also are imitating. So five thousand years before, this was written, lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam.

Śyāmasundara: So would even accidents between two automobiles, that would not really be an accident?

Prabhupāda: Because it is imperfect, therefore there is an accident.

Śyāmasundara: Oh! It is an accident?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Śyāmasundara: That is not determined by any...

Prabhupāda: No.

Bhavānanda: That's not determined even by karma?

Prabhupāda: What?

Bhavānanda: It is not determined even by karma?

Prabhupāda: Yes. In higher sense it is also like that. That means from God's eyes even the so-called accident is also predestined.

Devānanda: Nothing can be outside of the law of God.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Śyāmasundara: His definition of the world is that it is the stuff of pure experience—that matter, mind, everything is made up of experience.

Prabhupāda: Whose experience? Your experience?

Śyāmasundara: He doesn't say whose experience. Just experience.

Prabhupāda: What does it mean? Experience, there are different types of experience. Your experience is different from my experience. Then we have to calculate whose experience.

Page Title:It is not (an accident) determined even by karma?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:05 of Jun, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1