Oh yes, I believe in destiny. ๐ ๐๐๐ แฏโ
โฃThere are things that we do; there are things that happen to us because of the things we do. That is Karma, the result of our actions.
Then there are things that happen to us but have no bearing on our actions. This I call destiny. ๐ฒ
แฐ.แ When the unknown overcomes us, it is destiny. เผโ When events we cannot command decide the course of our life, it is destiny.เผโ
โฃ It could be a natural calamity, actions of others, an act of God, a chance happening or national, social, global, current or historical events like wars, epidemics, financial crash or blooming economy. Wars and epidemics have altered many lives in unimaginable ways while we neither have any control over, nor have caused these. ย
Letโs consider a few examples that come to my mind as I write –
โ Someone was studying in Ukraine before the war broke out. They leave studies for safety and donโt know what to do next or are forced to take a second course. I call it fate. Afterall what role did the student have in messing up things.
โ Another example. I arrive in a new city to attend an event/ interview or for some treatment, and realize thereโs a bus, auto, taxi driverโs strike. They are protesting local government. I miss or am too late for the event. I have no role but suffered, nonetheless. I call it fate. ย
โ Here are some insights from those great minds I look up to-
โ What Cassius has to tell Brutus (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare) about destiny:
โโ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves, that we are underlingsโโ โฎโหโถโ.ห
ย โ And Carl G Jung, the great psychoanalyst defines fate in his own profound way –
โโThe psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fateโ. โหโก
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