Everyone has free will , but their general choices are immensely different. This the Vedas indicates is due to karma. We don’t all have the choice to compose a piece of classical music or turn over a million pounds in business in one day , or have the opportunity to associate with a very beautiful person,  so many examples can be given . The animal , bird, and insect world are similar, but the choices are less defined.

In the human form of life, though, choices and freedoms of some  of the most important aspects of life are readily and equally available for anyone in any status of life , no matter karmic synchronicities and its effects. We mean the path of  choosing  philosophically inclined thinking and choosing to understand ourselves, this world, and the myriad of theological teachings along with their  applications . It is the arrangement of Divinity that if anyone takes the slightest steps towards Him, He makes many more steps towards us . Every person can immediately take such steps , everyone has that choice, there is no bias , no discrimination , but rather  there is mercy above justice. Thus in Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna says think of Me become My devotee I will protect you from all reactions.

Within the material world many many complexities are entanglements are present our mind and senses drag us everywhere,  so Krishna says I will protect you from your own conditioned life , I will give you the intelligence to show you reality,  as it is .

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