Predestination - Hinduism

Hinduism

In Hinduism, predestination is called Vidhi or Vidhi niyama. Though the future is believed to be dependent on karma, Vidhi has predestined as to what karma the being does. Thus the decision a being makes to do good or bad is predestined. It is said that even God cannot alter the flow of Vidhi. In the Dvaita school of Vaishnavism, the philosopher Madhvacharya believed in a similar concept.

For example, Madhvacharya differed significantly from traditional Hindu beliefs in his concept of eternal damnation. He divides souls into three classes, one class that qualifies for liberation, Mukti-yogyas, another subject to eternal rebirth or eternally transmigrating due to samsara, Nitya-samsarins, and significantly, a class that is eventually condemned to eternal hell or Andhatamas, known as Tamo-yogyas. He has hypothesized (based on vedic texts and yukti) that souls are eternal and not created ex nihilo by God, as in the Semitic religions. Souls depend on God for their very "being" and "becoming." Madhva has compared this relationship of God with souls to the relationship between a source (bimba) and its reflection (pratibimba).