If the whole creation is part of God, including our own minds, where is the scope of free will? The thought that we have free will may also be a step on the unchangeable endless path, no?
Perhaps free will is relative. Humans have more free will than animals, animals have more than trees and stones think trees are hippies. In the bracket of consciousness where human beings operate, in the bracket addressing which all scriptures are written, both free will and fate are felt to exist. But in the biggest scenario, the unfolding of creation is a massive roll of the fate barrel following the primordial shove of free will, once and only once.