KARMA, FATE, FREE WILL & LIBERATION
Do all animals have souls. including insects and bacteria ? How does the cycle of rebirths cease when one attains MOKSHA ? Detailed descriptions are available in Bhagavata and Bhagavadgita when the process of creation is described. 84 lac species we go through a a jeeva ( soul) and human species is the one we reach as the last one of the 84 lac species. Today science has identified only about 10% of these species. Jada and living are two categories, and amongst living, the faculty of thinking, discernment, and free will with communicating skills of very high order are gifted to human species while others have to lesser and lesser degrees. Every living entity hence must have a soul. Trees too live but do no karma. They just serve , serve and serve!!! The moment you are given intelligence, thinking, desires and physical prowess to deploy, you start karma and the details of karma, akarma, vikarma all are well described in Bhagavadgita. The same karma depending on the intention, becomes ...