Einstein rejects free will

[Guest guest]

“If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgement on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to him?”

 

-Albert Einstein

Out of My Later Years

 

More in http://www.americanatheist.org/supplement/freewill.html

[Guest guest]

Of course there is fate and no free will.If there is no fate,then god can't be all knowing,right?

[Dravidian 0]

I agree and believe that what we call free will is merely the reactions of prakriti. The actions of this world are manifested/manifesting reverbirations from something deeper. A deeper vibration causes all that occurs here. we are the result of what has already occurred. Free will is a way to look at things in a temporary and limited paradigm. But ultimately in the grand scheme of things fee will is an illusion. But many of us are not able to comprehend this deep precept given to us from ages past. And so we were also given a way to understand ourselves within a "free will" paradigm. Hence we have rules of conduct and moral practice to prevent "chaos" and "evil". But eventually one will find that all that happens is necessary and the universe tends to unfold as it should. We are to observe and understand ourselves. Understand that all that happens is meant to and that the only Will is that of the One Almighty. Punishment and reward are simply consequences, the reactions of prakriti, karma. It is said that we must eventually become indifferent to these and move beyond worry of consequences through detachment of ego or identity from the confines of prakriti. All is God.

[Guest guest]

Einstein was atheist or agnostic, and DOES believe in free will. Which is what I believe he was.

[Guest guest]

verify the weblink given in the link.He advocated no freewill.He spoke against it

[Dravidian 0]

Einstein was not athiest or agnostic. He did believe in God. You obviously haven't read much on Einstein as a person. Plus his theory of relativity and modern phsyics resonate with vedic philosophy.

[Guest guest]

Einsten wasn't atheist, he did believe in God, though not as a personal god but as an impersonal ultimate reality (like the Brahman of Hinduism). His thoughts on God and the universe were in line with Vedantic teachings.

 

He spoke about the Bhagavad Gita :- "When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous." He also said "We owe a lot to Indians who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."