Destiny and Free Choice co-exist and is inter-connected. The Destiny is
not something that is absolutely fixed. Destiny is more of one’s
overall natural inherent tendency. Within that given limit one has Free
Choice. We can understand this by an example. Suppose a person is put
into a very large and rich palace and someone locks the palace from the
outside. Here he will have Free Choice
to go to one room or the other, where to dine, in which bathroom to take
bath, in which bedroom to sleep and so on, but this all his activity
shall be within the limits of that palace.
And, if he realises that he has been jailed in this rich palace, he may try to seek somehow the help from outside and try to break the jail, instead of merely indulging the luxuries of that palace. Here in this allegory, that person’s being locked in the palace is Destiny, and his doing anything he wants within that palace is his Free Choice.
Destiny is one’s natural inherent tendency, and it reflects in the way one feels, reacts, relates and thinks. This tendency is the result of accumulated effects of thousands and thousands of choices one had made, knowingly or unknowingly, in the past up till now, including those made in the past lives (if in fact they exist!). So the Destiny is the result of Free Choices one has made in the past. And fortunately, all this also mean that there is possibility of altering certain (not all) aspects of the Destiny, if one understands it rightly & decides to.
And, if he realises that he has been jailed in this rich palace, he may try to seek somehow the help from outside and try to break the jail, instead of merely indulging the luxuries of that palace. Here in this allegory, that person’s being locked in the palace is Destiny, and his doing anything he wants within that palace is his Free Choice.
Destiny is one’s natural inherent tendency, and it reflects in the way one feels, reacts, relates and thinks. This tendency is the result of accumulated effects of thousands and thousands of choices one had made, knowingly or unknowingly, in the past up till now, including those made in the past lives (if in fact they exist!). So the Destiny is the result of Free Choices one has made in the past. And fortunately, all this also mean that there is possibility of altering certain (not all) aspects of the Destiny, if one understands it rightly & decides to.
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