As long as you are in the network of time, space, and
causation, to say you are free is nonsense, because in that network all is
under rigorous law, sequence and consequence.
Every thought that you think is
caused, every feeling has been caused; to say that the will is free is sheer
nonsense.
It is only when the infinite existence comes, as it were, into this
network of Maya that it takes the form of will.
Will is a portion of that
being, caught in the network of Maya, and therefore "free will" is a
misnomer.
It means nothing -- sheer nonsense.
So is all this talk about
freedom.
There is no freedom in Maya. … …
True freedom cannot exist in the midst
of this delusion, this hallucination, this nonsense of the world, this universe
of the senses, body, and mind.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in New-York
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