"Just as the distinction between good and evil is valid only on the empiric plane, so on that plane alone man's will is free to choose, man is responsible for sin. In actual fact, where man is God and personal being a delusion the question of real freedom and responsibility cannot arise. It is this double view of truth —the higher and the lower—that explains the apparent weakness of Hindu doctrine in general (with its incurable inclination to pantheism), and the much-blamed 'inconsistency' of the Gītā, on the subject of freewill."
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W. Douglas P. Hill
William Douglas Penneck Hill (1884 – 9 April 1962) was a British Indologist noted for his scholarly translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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