What is Destiny? Do you believe in it? ...
Do you believe in Luck? How are the two different? Or are they the same?...
What is Fate?...
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These and similar questions have intrigued me for a long time... I have also had some discussions with people on these. It is really hard to argue out these things... at different points in life, we all have different opinions and views on these questions. My beliefs too have changed over time. I do not know if the have evolved or devolved but they have surely been moderated and directed by my personal experiences and perhaps, to some extent of those around me.
The only thing that we can control (if at all, that is) in all of this universe is ourselves. And nothing but we can control ourselves. And that is where it begins and ends. There is nothing less or more than this that we can control. The most we can do (and that is what a leader does) is to influence our surroundings. That is it. There is nothing more we can do... there is nothing less that we should strive to do...
Now once we realise this, it is clear that even though we do not have any control on the external factors around us, they do influence and affect us. And this destiny...
We may decide to do X but Y may happen due to factors beyond our control. We may have done a good job in controlling ourselves, but because X involves the external world to move in a certain way -- which does not materialise -- it leads to Y. Movement of external factors constitute our destiny...
We decide that A is what we want to do... and we are powerful enough (at that point in time) to impose it on others... and this becomes their destiny... So our decisions become others' destinies...
There are times in life when decisions and destinies do not seem to be going hand in hand... in fact, they may be conflicting... and if the decisions are big enough, it is here that the course of life gets altered...
It is the interaction of decisions and destinies that modulates our life...
However, it is our reactions to these that governs our life... It should be life that must go on... whatever goes on should not be called life...
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my guess on fate is slightly different, see http://prayatn.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-06-03T12%3A48%3A00-07%3A00
Do not forget what gurudev said... u know what I am talking about!
Yes... I agree with your point as well... However, somehow I feel that the "we own our destiny" bit is true for the long run... but not in the short run... i.e. the manifestations of the past karma unfold strongly and irrevocably in the short term... while we can improve our karma and change the long term course of the future life (or lives?) :D
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