Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Thought 53: What is Destiny?


An action is called a Karma in Sanskrit. A Karma need not always be physical. Whatever you do, decide, speak or even think is a Karma (action) - and every Karma (action) will have consequences. You are accountable for every Karma that originates from you.

You may delude your self that certain circumstances forced you into a given action and therefore, you are not responsible for that action. But the divine justice system knows the truth; you and you alone are responsible for any action that you initiate, no matter what circumstances prompted those actions. You had a choice; you always have a choice. And you have chosen to act in a particular way in response to those circumstances. You need not have reacted at all or you need not have reacted in that particular manner.

The person responsible for an action (cause) is the one who will experience the result (effect) of that action. Some results are experienced immediately; others, later in this life or in a subsequent life. Every result will be in the form of either happiness or unhappiness to the person who does the Karma. No person would ever experience the results of the Karma done by another person.

Thus, you are a victim of your own past activities. Your present – which is your destiny (Praarabdha Karma or simply, Karma) – is fixed irrevocably in this manner. Once you fire a bullet, you have no more control over it. It surely goes and hits the target – some target or the other. Likewise, once you perform a Karma, you have created your destiny – irrevocably. You have no more control over it than you have on the bullet, which left your gun.

The Hindu philosophy says that yesterday's actions shape today’s results for you; and today's actions shape tomorrow’s results for you. Any day, what you get is what you deserve – no more, no less. The results (your Destiny) are very precisely calibrated (in terms of what your Karma (actions) deserved) before they are meted out to you. That is how you get your Karma (Destiny) in any life.

Also, the results of your actions culminate inevitably in some happiness or unhappiness to you. There is no escape for you from the results of your Karma. Hence, you and you alone, are responsible for any thing that happens to you. No one else is accountable for the consequences of your thoughts, your decisions, your words (speech) and your actions. Therefore, it is no use blaming any one else for any thing that happens to you; you write your own script (Destiny). Destiny is whatever good or bad that happens to you every single minute of every single day in your life.

There could be some confusion here because the action is called Karma - and the fruits of action are also called Karma. The fruits of action are actually to be called the Praarabdha Karma (Destiny) – which, in practice, however, we abridge and call it also Karma (Destiny).

This reminds me of what a local person said in San Jose to my daughter Sashi one day in the parking lot of a large departmental store. This parking lot is always very, very busy and full - most of the time, on any working day. The chances for your getting a parking spot near the entrance – are almost zero. That particular day, as luck would have it (is it really her luck?), Sashi could park her car right in front of the entrance. Seeing this, one local person, who was also looking for a similar parking spot, smiled and remarked to her, (observing that she is of Indian origin), “Madam, your Parking Karma appears to be very good today!”

Thus, understand that in any life time, you will have to submit to your Destiny; every one of the experiences you get in any life happen only because of the Karmas you performed in your previous lives. You alone are responsible for everything that happens to you in any life; you need not blame any one for any bad that happens to you in any life; neither should you attribute any good things that happen to you in any life to good luck; they are also equally the result of your earlier good Karmas. No one can change one’s Destiny; and this is the reason why they perhaps say, “Whatever will be, will be, Kay Sarah Sarah”.

The next thought is about “There is Sakti (energy) in all objects and beings of this universe”

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