Karma and Destiny

In this post, I am sharing Chanakya's views on Karma and Destin. Reading them and contemplating these views helped me maintain my peace of mind even in times of distress and acted as guidelines for my future actions. After reading and implementing them, I hope there will be some positive changes in your life.

Control of self is the entrance to heaven

• Karma: Like a calf finds the mother cow even if there are thousands of cows, the consequence of an action searches its doer unerringly. [ One can’t escape the consequences of an action do whatever one may.]

  
  

• Karma: Man himself does action and he bears its consequences. He roams about it in the world and gets liberated from this cycle of birth and death.[Chanakya says that man is free to act but he must bear its consequences, whether good or bad. It is only his balance sheet of the action and its consequences that have been set at naught that he becomes liberated. Hence, achieving this liberation is also well within man's control].

  
  

• Karma: Although man reaps as he sows and his action also controls his wisdom, the prudent and wise man acts very thoughtfully, fully weighing the good and bad consequences.[ It means that though the resultant of the deeds committed in previous life decides the good and bad consequences in this life, still one must act after thoughtful deliberation.

  
  

• Destiny: Age, profession, financial status, level of education, and death are five basic parameters of human life that are ordained when the being is in the embryonic form.

  
  

• Destiny: It is one’s fate that makes a beggar a king or king a beggar, a rich man a pauper, or a pauper a king.

  
  

• Destiny: One gets everything according to one’s destiny. One’s actions, responses, and reactions are guided by the factors of destiny.[Meaning the rule of destiny is supreme in human life. If one is destined to reap a good harvest one would get a situation conducive to his receiving good result and vice versa].

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