All actions of ordinary human being are done by the will power of Parabrahman

[dattaswami]

All actions of ordinary human being are done by the will power of Parabrahman

All the actions of an ordinary human being are also due to Parabrahman. Here the will of Parabrahman is responsible for any action of the human being. But at the same time the direction of the action is in the hands of human being. Thus Parabrahman is responsible for the action but is not responsible for the fruit of the action of the human beings (Kartaaramapi sarvasya—The Gita). A person touches an electric wire in his house and commits suicide. No doubt the electricity sent by the power station is the cause of his death. But the engineer of the power station cannot be punished and such a death is not a murder committed by the engineer.

Another wise person is using the same electricity through several appliances and is enjoying a lot. Such a person who is enjoying will not go to the engineer and garland him, praising him for being responsible for his enjoyment. Parabrahman exists in the human incarnation. In the case of an ordinary human being, Parabrahman does not exist in the human being. All the actions of the ordinary human being are done by the will or power of the external Parabrahman alone. This is the difference between the human incarnation and a human being.