PREDESTINATION IN VEDANTA

In Vedanta, predestination is called Vidhi or Vidhi niyama.

While a person's future is dependent on karma, Vidhi has predestined what karma the person will do. Thus one's decision to do good or to do ill is set in advance.  It is said that even God cannot alter the flow of Vidhi.

This invites the view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do.  Free will only appears to be free will.

It is Vidhi, furthermore, that determines in whom and when an Atman will awaken.  Once this is determined, nothing a person does or does not do will alter the inevitability of the awakening.

So if you ever get the feeling that your life is living itself, that no matter what you do, it is going to go its own way, this is why.