YOU CAN GO BEYOND YOUR DESTINY

PHYSICALITY WHICH WE SEE AROUND is nothing but a play of destiny. Destiny means playing out of things in a fixed or predetermined manner. Physicality and destiny are closely linked. They exist together. If there is a destiny there will be an appropriate physical form to work this out. And if there is a form that means there is a destiny to be worked out. 

All the physical forms which we see around us are simply living their destiny or allotted prarbdha. Once the destiny (prarbdha) is fully worked out the physical form will no longer be there because now there is nothing to be worked out for which a physical form is needed. Destiny follows a predetermined course based on the inherent tendencies or memory that form is carrying within. For example, a dog has a certain type of destiny which forces him to live his life in a certain manner. Same is the case with all other creatures. They live their destiny. They cannot defy or deviate from their destiny. It’s so ingrained or hard-coded like writing on stones that these creatures are destined to live a pre-written life only. They have no other choice. 

However this is not the case with human beings. Human being is an exception to this general rule of destiny. What this exception means is that a human being if he chooses he can go beyond his destiny which other creatures cannot. Though the destiny will definitely happen to him but he has a choice i.e. if he chooses he can distance himself from his destiny. He can separate himself from his destiny. He can simply watch his destiny work out and yet remain untouched by it. A human being, thus, have a choice that he can go beyond his destiny which other creatures do not have. This choice can open doors to the beyond. In this choice lies release or liberation. Self-realization which leads one to freedom or ‘mukti’ or liberation is possible only in a human form. This choice alone makes human birth valuable because no such possibility exists in other forms.  

Thus physical form or destiny is not your reality. It’s something which you have worn or covered yourself with. Destiny is not inherent or integral to you. It’s external to you which you have acquired from outside while living. That’s the reason that we should not be deceived or misled by the physicality which we see around. Because that is current reality and not the ultimate reality. Your ultimate reality is your interiority or subjectivity. 

We need to understand that destiny means things happening in a certain way – what is destined to happen will happen what may come and that which is not destined to happen will not happen how hard you may try to make that happen. Hence the only ‘sadhana’ a ‘sadhak’ needs to do is to become a silent watcher to that which is happening. That’s how one can transcend one’s destiny. If you get identified with your destiny i.e. with the actions of your body and mind then you will live a miserable life, a life of ignorance. But if you become a witness you go beyond your destiny i.e. you do not identify with activities of your body and mind then you will live a life of consciousness which is the truth. Meditation is a method to go beyond one’s destiny. 

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