Free will Vs. predicted future

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Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia, 24-Jul-98

 

Dear Srila Acaryapada: Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Your Divine Grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

In the Sastra said that Lord Krsna knows everything from the past, present

and even from the *future*

 

If Lord KŠa already knows the future, we can said that the future is

already predicted. If there is a war Lord Krsna already knows who will win

and who will fight in each side and who will die, etc. Then, how actually

works the free will that we have?

 

If we have a free will to choose to do a particular devotional service or a

particular fruitive activity, Lord Krsna already knows that we will choice

one of them. So, the future is already predicted and we can't change

anything! How the free will that we have works. Actually we have it?

 

If the future is already predicted I perceived some contradictory statements

in the Sastras when said that the jiva has the independence to choose but

actually what independence we *really* have if we can't change anything.

 

If Lord Krsna already knows the future, He also knows when/how and who will

become his devotee and which services his devotee will do for Him. Normally

there is more enjoyment when the person doesn't know the future.

 

I hope that one day I will be free of all my doubts by YDG's unlimited

mercy.

 

Your servant,

Marici das