00:00Neuroscientists have now come to a point where we understand that technically there is no free will.
00:08So my dissonance is sir, does this neuroscientific understanding co-exist with the Vedantic philosophy which to some extent puts
00:18me and my choices at the center?
00:21Vedant does not say there is a free will or that there is a free chooser. No.
00:28What it says comes to the absence of free will but through a very different route.
00:36The route is that of choiceless understanding. You are not the chooser but you can be the observer.
00:46You can be the observer. Now there is no doing happening there. Let all doing be conditioned.
00:53So if observation were a doing then observation too were a conditioned activity and that too would have fallen outside
01:01the purview of will.
01:03Because everything that is conditioned is outside the purview of will.
01:05But you can observe. You can observe this entire flow of conditioned phenomena.
01:12So you cannot be the doer or the chooser. But you can be the observer.
01:18Not only can you be the observer. It is your nature to observe.
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