When we make choices where does our karma fit in?
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When we make choices, where does our karma fit in? Karma determines the spectrum of our choices.
That means that there is a small ant, there is a giant elephant. The ant, its area of influence itself is very limited. Its body is limited, its area of influence is limited.
Elephant, its body is huge, its sphere of influence also is huge. So whatever situation we are in, we have choices. An ant may be tiny, the ant can look for where I can get some sugar, it can go there and eat the sugar.
Or the ant may go somewhere else and look for water. Or the ant may just go to its anthill and rest over there. The free will is there.
But within the free will, when the ant wants to get sugar, the ant, how much sugar it can get and how much sugar the elephant can get, they are very different. So, the scope of our free will, if I decide to do something, how much I can do, that is determined by karma. So, some people, when they want to speak in public, they are so fluid, then they start speaking effortlessly.
For other people, when they want to speak, they have to think ten times. And then also there is someone stammer or slur or whatever. Why is that? That speaking ability that is there, that extent of the ability is determined by karma.
So, for that person, they just don’t have the choice if somebody is not a very fluent speaker. Fluent speaking is not a choice for them. They can be less stuttering and they can be more stuttering.
By more preparation, they will stutter less. That is the choice that they have. Now, this does not mean that the choice is completely fixed.
The spectrum of choice can also change over time. Somebody who is a great stutterer, they keep practicing, keep practicing, it may happen that they may also become fluent. But that is not an immediate choice.
So, basically, based on our karma, the spectrum of our choices is determined. The scope of our free will that is determined. And based on how we use it, that spectrum, that scope may well change also.
But karma determines the kind of choices that we have. And then, within it, our free will is how we choose it. Does that answer your question? Okay.
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