THE SECRET OF UNEXPECTED GOOD FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE
There are quite a few тАЬBelieversтАЭ in this world who correlate people, places and things with good and bad luck Such superstitions have caused extreme miseries to innocent persons. The root cause for such irrational behaviour is the belief that whatever come to pass is predestined by God and the beings created by Him have absolutely no role in shaping their own destiny. Quite a few persons in this world forsake their responsibility in the mistaken belief that the gain and loss being predestined, there is no necessity of personal effort. They mistakenly believe that they cannot change the Will of God who is supposed to have programmed their life beforehand. We often hear expression like тАУ тАЬWhatever is destined cannot be changedтАЭ or тАЬWho can change the fate predestined by God?тАЭ or тАЬIt was the Will of GodтАЭ. As a matter of fact man uses such expressions when he finds himself helpless, disturbed and confused while undergoing adversity.
In the absence of an understandable cause, the agitated mind finds a scapegoat in the Divine Will. Nevertheless, such outbursts do have an advantage. The help in releasing the stress of hte disturbed mind, which would have otherwise done incalculable harm to the person concerned. There are however many mautre persons who shirk their responsibility of self-effort to meet a given challenge under the pretext of inexorability of Divine Will.
Because of their influence, the less knowledgeable younger persons around them too begin to feel helpless and despaired because of teh so-called тАЬinevitability of fateтАЭ.
Readers would appreciate how ignorance of the real causes of unexpected calamaties create ridiculuous concepts, wich distort and vitiate the value-system of life.
Since times immemorial, man has been attempting to correlate human activities with events of life over which he has no control. Research in deeper spirituality has discovered ways and means to find answers to such problems of life. In the following section, we shall discuss how mental and physical actions of an individual and collective activities of hte society become responsible for good fortune and misfortune of individuals and the community.
.... to be continue
тЬНЁЯП╗ Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
ЁЯУЦ The Absolute Law Of Karma Page 19
There are quite a few тАЬBelieversтАЭ in this world who correlate people, places and things with good and bad luck Such superstitions have caused extreme miseries to innocent persons. The root cause for such irrational behaviour is the belief that whatever come to pass is predestined by God and the beings created by Him have absolutely no role in shaping their own destiny. Quite a few persons in this world forsake their responsibility in the mistaken belief that the gain and loss being predestined, there is no necessity of personal effort. They mistakenly believe that they cannot change the Will of God who is supposed to have programmed their life beforehand. We often hear expression like тАУ тАЬWhatever is destined cannot be changedтАЭ or тАЬWho can change the fate predestined by God?тАЭ or тАЬIt was the Will of GodтАЭ. As a matter of fact man uses such expressions when he finds himself helpless, disturbed and confused while undergoing adversity.
In the absence of an understandable cause, the agitated mind finds a scapegoat in the Divine Will. Nevertheless, such outbursts do have an advantage. The help in releasing the stress of hte disturbed mind, which would have otherwise done incalculable harm to the person concerned. There are however many mautre persons who shirk their responsibility of self-effort to meet a given challenge under the pretext of inexorability of Divine Will.
Because of their influence, the less knowledgeable younger persons around them too begin to feel helpless and despaired because of teh so-called тАЬinevitability of fateтАЭ.
Readers would appreciate how ignorance of the real causes of unexpected calamaties create ridiculuous concepts, wich distort and vitiate the value-system of life.
Since times immemorial, man has been attempting to correlate human activities with events of life over which he has no control. Research in deeper spirituality has discovered ways and means to find answers to such problems of life. In the following section, we shall discuss how mental and physical actions of an individual and collective activities of hte society become responsible for good fortune and misfortune of individuals and the community.
.... to be continue
тЬНЁЯП╗ Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
ЁЯУЦ The Absolute Law Of Karma Page 19
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