Destiny

 

Destiny is an interesting, and complex idea,

Is destiny an action in a particular direction?

or

Do we act in a certain way to create a direction for our destiny?

Destiny is so much like the concept of Karma, from Bhagavad Geeta,

“Destiny, which cannot be changed, might create the context for a certain action, but it is one’s attitude towards this action which makes all the difference, and that is still in one’s hand”.*

“Do we become what our karma is, or do we make our Karma/destiny?”

That is what I think sometimes!

Do you too?

Would you change your course of action if you knew what was going to happen at the end of it, or would you let it still run its course?

We don’t know, most of the times, what would happen in our lives, but we make efforts to create a destiny for ourselves, a particular destiny, which has success written on it.

So, are our achievements, due to the opportunities, and the choices, that have been created by someone beyond us?

or whatever, we are destined to achieve, do we create means to achieve these for ourselves?

I believe we do! yes,

Destiny is an action that we take in a particular direction.

However then the poet in me looks at the injustices being wrought on some people, they seem to be ‘destined’ to suffer.

Could they have controlled that?

Could they have rethought themselves out of these circumstances?

(Yes, I know some of such stories, true stories. where someone has actually rethought and rewrote themselves out of a miserable destiny, Malala Yousafzai is a great example!)

But then those millions of people, who are suffering all over the world, “why are they suffering?”

“What is their doing, other than that they were born in a ‘certain’ place or were at the wrong place at the wrong time!”

*(An excerpt from Handa, N. 2018 Transcultural Knowledge for Global Citizenship. Transforming Education for Sustainability through the Internationalization of Teacher Education. Chapter 6. Karam YoGi — and the highest good).