The Atma Jyoti Blog

Q: If we plan everything before we are born, is that where we have free will or does it continue here?

Are you two people? One before birth and one after? There never is anything but free will.

If we do have free will here then can we choose to change something we planned before we were born?

If before birth we chose to be in a situation which we would then change or abandon–yes.

Do accidents happen?

There are no accidents.

If there are accidents and one senses help from a higher source, does that higher source help because It knows the accident wasn’t part of our plan and would, therefore, interfere with the life plan we made before birth?

Why make a simple thing hard? Sometimes we choose to create a situation in which we are miraculously helped so we will wake up and realize there is more than we realize. Don’t forget, your true Self and God are one–even if not the same.

Just how much is really planned? If we plan everything and nothing is left to chance, wouldn’t we advance sooner? We wouldn’t want to suffer if by just doing what we are supposed to do, we could mitigate lot of karma at once. You have said we can do this.

Do not assume that before birth you are omniscient. Being out of the body does not make us any smarter. So people plan lives that are idiotic. But even those lives push them toward learning.