Free Will and Self Responsibility

This article is dedicated to one martyr, freedom fighter, I cannot recall his name. He was doing exercise before he was getting hanged. So the jailor asked him, “Why you are doing exercise as you are already aware that you will be getting hanged just in few moments”. He said, “Whenever I will born in my mother land, I will have such great mental and physical strength that I have at this life and I would be able serve my country with same zeal and conquer.”

So, getting hanged may be our destiny but getting hanged peacefully, fearlessly can be our freewill. We may be destined with weak body, mind, unfriendly physical environment, but we can have freewill to do sheer struggle and overcome from all sufferings and miseries. This freewill is free from all negative forces too:

1.     Luck

2.     Fate

3.     Astrology

4.     Effects of past deeds as well as previous life deeds

5.     All types of tantra, mantra and yantra

6.     All the forces led by the enemies of God.

But, our human mind is weak and the forces of inertia always try to overpower our free will. Whenever some problems or issues encounter into our life, we always try to find excuses of sufferings using above forces or try to impute on others. But as Vedanta said whatever we get in present, is solely dependent on our own past deeds. So whatever we do at present will build our future. I can remember below quotes of Swami Vivekananda which is about self responsibility:

Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.’ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and succour you want is within ourselves

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”

So whenever we think that we are weak because we are destined to be, or it’s our luck or fate or it’s because of our own deeds of past or previous life, or it’s because of curse or evil thought of others, we should remember above quotes of Swami Vivekananda and take the responsibility.  

So, struggle from this very moment to get rid of all sufferings. Struggle till the mind is able to think and body is able to breathe.

As soon as we embrace the struggle, the negative forces will try to overpower our free will. Off course they have to be, because we need to pay the cost for Freedom. We have to be very firm and develop the attitude of perseverance. After some time negative forces will start vanishing and replaced by positive forces.  We need to remember that Freedom is very expensive and we will value it only when we will do enough struggles to get it. Otherwise we will never realize how important they are in our life.

So at last the conclusion is:

We always do excuses and/or try to impute on others about our miseries and sufferings. But this is not the cure of sufferings. We have to take all responsibilities of sufferings and develop strong free will to act positively from this very moment, so that future would be bright and delightful. Because future is dependent on our present deeds as present is dependent on our past deeds. We need to remember that there are no destiny or negative forces which can overpower the freewill and perseverance. At last, all the very best to everybody in path of freedom.