This life is a gift which has been given to us with a great compassion by the creator. One can easily differ with it, but when seen with clear vision, we would find that in the whole creation around us and beyond, our superiority is well-proven, without any doubt. We are on the top. What we do here creates our destiny. When we do good to others, in return we feel good. When we harm someone, our inner core gets troubled. We do not know what we were before coming to this world and what we would be after we are gone. We only know the life that is going on. The way we act and behave in this world shapes us. And thus, we create our destiny.
In Ayodhya Kand of Ramcharitmanas, when Nishadraj Guh sees Ram and Sita sleeping on the ground in exile, he gets very sad and Laxman pacifies him. This short deliberation of Laxman is very illuminating and full of wisdom.
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What is general assumption about destiny
Normally we find people talking that we are puppet in the hands of creator with no power. Whatever is done, it is done only by Him. And often a quote is quoted about it:
Teri satta ke bina he prabhu mangal mool.
Patta tak hilta nahin, khile na koi phool.
Meaning: O God! without your power and wish nothing moves. Not a leaf moves nor plants flower.
And we falsely believe that our existence matters nothing. We have no power. But this is not so. We have been equipped with a superb brain and senses that are best in the creation. We are the crest jewel of creation.
But often our indoctrination comes in the way and we forget our real potential.
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What is Reality?
In reality we are crest jewel of creation. We are at the top. The understanding and wisdom we have is unparallel. And so is the responsibility. We are really blessed. When we know ourselves, our real potential gets unfolded. We then know that beyond destiny we are blessed. It is not any deed that has shaped us, but it is compassion of the creator that has shaped us.
This world is transitory but the power within is permanent. While living in this world, we should aim at knowing the power within, the source of peace and tranquility. Then we can live peacefully and happily with people around us and with the nature.
We have to live this life in such a way that everyone and everything is respected and valued. We must understand that this small amount of existence that has been given to us, roughly 70 years, must be utilized to the best of it.
What Ramcharitmanas Says?
We are the source of our pleasure or pain, none else. What we do here decides our fate. We are fortunate beyond our imagination. This has been wisely elaborated here by Laxman to Nishadraj Guh.
“No one is a source of delight or pain to another; everyone reaps the fruit of one’s own actions, brother. Union and separation, pleasurable and painful experiences, friends, foes and neutrals — snares of delusion are these. Even so birth and death, prosperity and adversity, destiny and time and all the illusion of the world; lands, houses, wealth, town and family, heaven and hell, and all the phenomena of the world; nay, whatever is seen, heard or thought of with the mind has its root in ignorance: nothing exists in reality.
“Suppose in a dream a beggar is crowned king or the lord of paradise is reduced to the state of a pauper; on waking, the one does not gain nor does the other lose anything. So must you look upon this world. Reasoning thus be not angry nor blame anyone in vain.
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“Everyone is slumbering in the night of delusion, and while asleep one sees dreams of various kinds. In this night of mundane existence, it is Yogis (one who knows himself) alone who keep awake. One should be deemed as having awoke from the night of the world only when he develops aversion for the enjoyments of the world of senses. It is only when right understanding comes that the error of delusion disappears and then alone one develops love for the Rama. O friend, the highest spiritual goal is this: to be devoted to the Rama in thoughts, words and deeds. Lord Rama is no other than the supreme Reality, unknown, imperceptible, beginningless, incomparable, free from all change and beyond all diversity. The Vedas ever speak of Him infinite.”
Conclusion
When one knows the reality of his own self and the impermanency of the world, he can live in this world happily without any worry for the destiny and enjoy this existence which is indeed very rare.
