Does our past karma determine our present actions?
Thank you the I explained about the programs there are certain default programs which just work automatically so if I have repeatedly visited a particular website then if I say visited newyorktimes.com and as soon as I start Google autocomplete will do New York Times now what has happened that is simply based on the record of what I have done in the past so like that, based on what we have done in the past in this life or in the previous life, the mind has developed certain tendencies and those tendencies are like our default programs now it is not that all default programs are necessarily bad it's like there is a swabhav there is a brahmana swabhav, there is a kshatriya swabhav there is a vaisya swabhav there are different swabhavas and these are not something which we have to reject but these are something which we have to dovetail so some people may be more intellectual some people may be more managerial, that is fine so whatever is our nature, that doesn't mean we reject what is our nature, rather we are aware of it and we channel it so our past impressions do our past karma does create certain patterns of thinking for us and some patterns of thinking are harmonizable with our higher purposes of life and then we channel them some patterns of thinking may be unhealthy they may be anti-devotional, they may be more and those we have to fight against but our past karma it doesn't do one thing it can never force us to do anything, see the mind can only impel, it can't compel impel means it pushes us to do this but we can push back it doesn't force us to do it so nobody can say that I can say because of my past karma, I am short tempered but I cannot say because of my past karma, I will shout at anyone I meet no, that short temperedness may be there, but still I also have the capacity to control myself so our past karma can explain our inclinations, but it doesn't rationalize our actions we have free will and we are expected to act responsibly according to our free will but our past karma can help us understand what are the obstacles that I am going to face and then we can prepare better to deal with those obstacles, does it answer your question? so thank you very much.