Transcending Karma and Retribution
Free will coupled with intelligent action and thought can, to a large extent, neutralise and make up for the limiting and binding effects of karma and destiny. The Bhagawad Gita (4, 19 and 4, 37) and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (2,16) also assure that intelligence (jnanagni) can quell the impact of all karma whereby difficulties, which would otherwise have ensued, can be preempted.
This intelligence is obtained by assiduous study, practice and application (sadhana) cultivating thus, a dominant free will within. Aeschylus observes how even gods join in when a person is eager and willing, while H W Longfellow sings (Psalm of Life), “Let us then be up and doing/With a heart for any fate”. This is also the application of W E Henley’s concept in his Invictus: “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
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