क्या इंसान अपने कर्मों के लिए पूरी तरह जिम्मेदार है?
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फिर हम सिर्फ एक प्रोग्राम, एक Biological मशीन हैं जिसे ऐसा लगता है कि वह खुद निर्णय ले रहा है?
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very good question my blessed Supritee,
I will wait for our Amarantians to share their views / experiences…
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Hi Supritee,
Are we reprogrammed?
Of course we are reprogrammed, but the programmers are us only. We program ourselves, which has an auto-correction capability. We too are in a way like AI (machine learning).
To put it simply, my view is we design our life before we are born. During or after birth, we forget our design. We feel the design limit us. Once we know our design, then our capability as a programmer resurfaces, which can help us to recorrect and change our initial programs completely.
Until we don’t realize that we were programmers and we can reprogram ourselves, we feel like we are already programmed.
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अत्यंत संवेदनशील प्रश्न- मैं ऐसा सोचती हूँ की हम प्रोग्राम + प्लेयर दोनों हैं, हमारे अंदर एक मशीन है और उसके पीछे एक साक्षी, कर्म मशीन से होते हैं, लेकिन कर्म की दिशा साक्षी बदल सकता है, इसलिए सवाल यह नहीं है कि “क्या मैं जिम्मेदार हूँ?” असली सवाल है:“मैं कितना जागरूक हूँ?”जितनी जागरूकता, उतनी आज़ादी, उतनी ही ज़िम्मेदारी 
और शायद यही इंसान होने की कीमत भी है 
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I think this question has many layers.
We are biological systems shaped by genetics, neural wiring, hormones, trauma, culture, and lived experiences. Much of our behaviour runs on autopilot. Responsibility begins the moment awareness is present.
We are not responsible for the conditioning we inherit but we are responsible for whether we become conscious of it, question it, and choose to continue living from it—or slowly shift it.
At the same time, from a spiritual lens, it’s often understood that we arrive in this human form with a blueprint of experiences the soul intends to move through. Certain encounters, challenges, and themes may be given. What remains within our control is how we meet them, with the choices we make. That is where free will lives.
Awareness allows us to engage with these experiences with presence rather than resistance, with curiosity rather than compulsion. It doesn’t remove difficulty, but it changes the quality of how we move through it—and that is what leads to growth.
This may be why growth can feel heavy at times. Clarity carries weight. Once something is seen, it asks to be met differently—and there is no returning to unconsciousness.
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its a good thought. However, we come here in this earth and many other earths, to learn life lessons and experiences along with finishing our karmas and others karmas. Yes, when we are in mani roop or bindhu roop (purest infinite energy, not even sperm), we decide in which family or couple we need to take birth.
With mothers breath or prana shakti we get life (Gratitude towards my Guru who have taught me) in the living environment.
Also unfinished desires or living also make us to take rebirth.
@bhoomikacakravarthi ji, did we create our body nope? Again that’s the kripa of family who accepted us as it is and gave this particular form. We the body cannot control all the situation, only when the atman realises ,body is just a vessel like glass , when you pour water into glass it becomes glass of water and when it is poured into jug, it becomes jug of water. After many births, we finally got a chance to take a human form. We took the body form , to complete certain tasks.
@hc2101 ji, as I said earlier our human form is the hardware and soul is the power source. When you are awaken, then how it is your sole responsibility of karm. When you are awaken then , then there is no thought about karm coz you starts to neutralize all your karmas slowly. Once you are awakened, then there is no point on karmas. Karma and all are for body conscious, when you are in soul consciousness, nothing matters.
In the movie , matrix revolution, Neo the one goes back to source to control agent smith. Here, agen smith is mind , Neo is the soul which he didn’t knew.
In The Matrix Resurrections (2021), he comes back to set everything back to normal.
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्॥
Whenever there is a decline in righteousness (dharma)
and an increase in unrighteousness (adharma), O Arjuna,
at that time I manifest Myself.
@devithiagarajan ji, how do we know we are reprogrammed ? Is it in this form or any other forms in past karmas or life , do we decide next life I will take human form?
Again, it’s all the minds play, it feels us lathargy, limited etc.
Have we ever thought about how does your soul feel like or whether have you spoken to your own soul?
@hc2101 ji this for you also, all we need to be sakshi bhaava , when you are just observer of thoughts then there is no Karma being generated, when you question the thought arise “are we programmed?” Etc just like Shri Ramana Maharshi told, then the need of enquiring or contemplating about bodily consciousness stops and then soul consciousness arises. Our beloved lovely 
Master @venu sir had already told this in our class.
ॐ श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः ।
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@bhoomikacakravarthi
@hc2101
@devithiagarajan
Another perspective /good explanation is shown below youtube link.
Life Purpose
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading your reflection Santhosh:folded_hands:
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especially the way you brought sakshi bhaav into this discussion. Because somewhere all these conversations about programming, karma, blueprint… they finally land at the same place
who is the one experiencing it?
With whatever little experience, I have noticed a small but interesting difference though. When people hear “just be the witness”, many of them try to jump straight into soul-consciousness… but their nervous system is still holding fear, hurt, rejection, guilt n so, the mind keeps pulling them back into body-conscious reactions.
N practically it becomes a journey:
First → the person is completely inside the pattern Then → they understand the pattern (why it formed) Then → they can observe it while it is happening And only then → witnessing becomes natural, not forced
Otherwise witnessing becomes an idea, not an experience.
Your hardware power analogy fits well. But I see the mind not exactly as an enemy (Agent Smith 
), rather as an overprotective security system installed for survival. Awakening doesn’t destroy it… it relaxes its job.
About karma ending after awakening… in clinical space what I have observed is events may still come, emotions may still arise, but identification reduces. So karma doesn’t disappear overnight its binding quality reduces.
So, maybe reprogramming, healing and sakshi bhaav are not different paths, they are stages of the same unfolding.
First the mind needs safety then understanding then witnessing happens on its own
Not achieved… revealed.
Really thoughtful points you shared
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Hey Bhoomika… appreciate the balance in your reply…
“in the lived human space in between”.
And honestly, this is exactly where therapy happens.
In my sessions I often see that people are not actually stuck because of their conditioning… they are stuck because their mind is still trying to operate in automatic mode to stay safe.
The moment awareness comes, something uncomfortable happens its not relief first, but responsibility.
Before awareness → pattern feels inevitable
After awareness → pattern becomes a choice
Many clients even say, that earlier they reacted and it was over, but now they see themselves reacting and they can not unsee it.”*
This gap between compulsion and presence is exactly where reprogramming begins.
So, I feel maybe life doesn’t rewrite us in one go and may be awareness is creating micro-moments where the old response pauses… and in these pauses the nervous system learns a new possibility…not forced change, but updated experience.
From spiritual angle also, perhaps events are given, but reactions are editable. May be the curriculum is fixed, but the learning style is not.
And yes… once seen, we can’t go back to unconsciousness.
Which is uncomfortable… but also the first real freedom.
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@Devi,
The line
“ the programmers are us only.”
is very catchy…
as it beautifully shifts the position from victim to participant.
In therapy I have noticed something very similar… People initially come with a feeling “ This is just how I am wired.”
as if personality is a permanent installation done by someone else…may be parents, society, karma, past life, trauma… .
But when they actually reach the origin of a pattern in regression, a very interesting moment happens. They don’t just remember, but they recognize.
And suddenly the pattern stops feeling like a prison and starts feeling like an outdated coping strategy.
I resonate with what you said about “design”. For me it feels less like a fixed blueprint and more like a first draft written under emotional intensity. A child, a frightened mind or even a past-life personality makes a conclusion and the subconscious faithfully keeps running that line of code for decades.
Reprogramming then is not forcing a new belief. It is updating the context.
The moment the mind understands why the program was created, it naturally loosens its grip. Awareness then becomes the auto-correction.
So maybe we are not exactly programmed… We are self-programming beings running very old scripts , until consciousness logs back in as the administrator.
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Who is observing the thought and who is experience it ?
@kobrakulsh
If you look closely, in the above picture , person itself is seeing horses running on a tv and it’s being watched by the same person.
This is the exact scenario happening with the mind. It’s mind’s ego only observing the other thoughts or siblings of it’s own mind. When we enquire Who Am I observing then , mind creates another ego to observe the other enquiring question.
Just like, in the movie The Matrix Revolution, agent smith is watching agent smith’s copy being created and fighting neo. In fact in The matrix Reloaded, Agent smith says , he trust only me and then he created copies of himself. Actually, agent smith’s depicts our mind and it’s copies are agents of different vibrations or vrittis of mind.
And finally when the question 
hits harder, mind gets exhausted and mind itself gets awakened.
When he thinks it’s over…
It is awakened, by the dissolution of entire Agents (mind and all its egos and thoughts)
A new beginning and sunrise is observed
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Each of us thinks:
"Well, this is me. I know me: I, me, mine’ that’s what I know, that’s what l am.
" But we forget that the sum total of that, which makes you exactly what you are today, is a
conglomeration (kind of a chaotic conglomeration
sometimes!) of everything you have thought and done and desired over aeons of reincarnations.
We gather karma, the effects of our past good and erroneous actions-you all know that; and you know that, in consciously energizing, stimulating, magnetizing the life force in those spiritual centers, helps to dislodge and erase a lot of your undesirable past karma.
But there is also a subtler part of the law of karma, which we don’t always want to take responsibility for, and that is what the scriptures call samskaras. Those are the
psychological and spiritual traces left in our consciousness by past-life thoughts, actions, habits. They influence what we are, and what we do, more than we can begin to
conceive-or than we would want to conceive!
~ Sri Mrinalini Mata
Excerpts from article “Be Messengers of God’s Light and Love”
SRF Magazine, Fall 2011less
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@kobrakulsh
@hc2101
@bhoomikacakravarthi
@devithiagarajan
Please see the video
@venu sir you may please confirm the above is the correct explanation?
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The Biological Perspective
Neuroscience shows that:
- Our decisions are influenced by genetics.
- Hormones affect behavior.
- Childhood conditioning shapes reactions.
- The brain often initiates action milliseconds before we consciously “decide.”
Experiments (like those by Benjamin Libet) suggest that brain activity precedes conscious awareness of choice.
So does that mean free will is an illusion?
Not entirely.
Because while impulses may arise automatically, humans possess something unusual:
Meta-awareness — the ability to observe our own thoughts.
A machine executes code.
A human can question the code.
That difference is crucial.
The Psychological Perspective
Much of our behavior runs on autopilot:
- Trauma patterns
- Emotional triggers
- Habit loops
But psychological growth is exactly the process of becoming aware of those patterns and changing them.
If we were only biological programs, therapy would not work.
Growth would not be possible.
Addictions would never break.
Yet people change.
This suggests we are influenced — but not fully imprisoned.
The Philosophical / Karmic Perspective
In karmic philosophy, circumstances may not be fully in our control.
But response is where responsibility begins.
You may not control:
- Your upbringing
- Your genetics
- Your first emotional reaction
But you may influence:
- Your second thought
- Your chosen action
- Whether you act unconsciously or consciously
Karma, in this view, is not about punishment.
It is about awareness in action.
So Are We Fully Responsible?
Not for everything.
You are not responsible for:
- Your DNA
- Your childhood
- The first impulse that arises
But you are responsible for:
- Whether you examine that impulse
- Whether you choose to act on it
- Whether you grow from experience
Responsibility increases with awareness.
The more conscious you are, the more accountable you become.
Sooooooooooooooooo…
You are not just a biological machine.
And you are not completely free either.
You are a being influenced by biology, shaped by conditioning, and capable of awareness.
Freedom is not absolute.
It exists in degrees.
And responsibility lives in that space between impulse and action.
That space — however small — is where your humanity resides.
Regards
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Mind blowing 
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Beautifully put Monesh
The body, brain, hormones, past impressions..… they give us the first line of dialogue, but awareness gives us the power to improvise.
In my therapy sessions I often see the reaction coming automatically, almost like a memory replay….. yet the moment a person sees it, something new becomes possible. This tiny pause changes destiny more than any philosophy.
So maybe we are programmed at the level of प्रारब्ध,
but conscious participation is our पुरुषार्थ.
Not fully free..… not fully bound.
More like a player who didn’t choose the game, but can learn how to play it better.
Loved how you explained responsibility as growing with awareness. 
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@Monesh
You nailed it
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@Santhosh
This really answers
“are we programmed?” question at a much subtler level.
What struck me most is that programming isn’t just from this lifetime… it’s a layered memory of samskaras carried across ages. No wonder reactions feel automatic sometimes; they’re ancient grooves and not conscious choices.
And yet, the hope lies exactly where you pointed …awareness and conscious energizing can loosen these grooves. Karma isn’t just fate playing out…samskaras are patterns asking to be seen.
For me, this bridges everything neuroscience, therapy and spirituality.
We may arrive with a heavily written script, but self-awareness is the edit button.
So maybe we aren’t programmed by fate…..we are patterned by memory.
And spirituality (or therapy) is not creating a new person, it is gently unlearning what we kept repeating for lifetimes.
Very grounding share
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All are roadway to single path “The Truth”. The Singular Truth.
All learning and experiences are pointing to a single truth.
Whatever this embodiment (I) has, is not its own and nothing but the Self , the Truth, the absolute stillness.
ॐ नमः परमार्थाय शुद्धज्ञानैकमूर्तये ।
निर्मलाय प्रशान्ताय दक्षिणामूर्तये नमः ॥
“I bow to the Supreme Truth, the embodiment of pure knowledge, the stainless and peaceful one—Lord Dakshinamurti.”
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