Can we really say Destiny and Karma are true.
Or one is truer than the other. Or none?
I usually choose to answer these questions by sparking up more questions in your mind. It keeps the fire of true discovery ongoing in your mind. So I'm coming in on this somewhat neutral.
In living, we might generally have a tendency to attribute our successes or our failures to some sort of moral factor e.g. Not getting help because you have not been kind enough.
Although, it might be difficult to prove the outcome of a person's experience as resulting from his predetermined Destiny or Karma, an undeniable fact is that some of our experiences are as a result of decisions we make.
We are more often than not a product of what we have done in the past, what we are doing, the influences we have had on people and the influences others have had on us.
But what if there is some "unseen" influence that directs our outcomes in life?
Usually, that's where our beliefs come in. Some believe in Destiny as predetermined, irrespective of what you do, some believe it exists but can be influenced by your choices or other 'forces'.
Similarly, some believe Karma happens to people, especially as a reward for inhumanity.
There are various viewpoints to these depending on the school of thought your belief subscribes to.
Whichever one you subscribe to, or perhaps you don't subscribe to any, the question still remains that there are occurrences we cannot tie sufficient reason to.
And this really begs the question if the concepts Karma and/or Destiny exist.
An example on the Destiny part is the subject of who your partner in marriage would/could be.
I have had a friend tell me that there is no one "life partner" that one is destined to have in life.
The assertion says there is no 'specific life partner' prepared by God for you, waiting somewhere for you to come and get married to him/her. You could have gotten married to someone else and still have a great marriage.
While that sounds somewhat tenable, understand that the choices that would lead you to meet that great partner may have been heavily influenced by your belief system inclinations. In that case, you might want to say, you were led to get married to him/her.
So would that be your destined husband/wife?
Could it be possible you still met the person and got married to him/her without any influences from your belief systems?
But then there are occasions when things align so well or so badly for a person, despite making the 'right' decisions. How do we explain those. Were they destined to be where they found themselves?
For Karma, the possible explanations are probably straightforward.
An example... Is it Karma that a Thief gets caught 20 years down the line or could it just be that the Police and Security department was recently revamped well enough to solve cases of theft in the past?
If we were to consider these topics with some logical thinking we would probably find out that some things that happen are a consequence of human activity - what we do.
The part we cannot explain is when we have looked at the possibilities and cannot find an answer or perhaps we have the explanations but they are too good to be true... And there are scenarios like that... where all we can attribute the outcome of things to is either "Destiny" or "Karma".
Whichever way you choose to go with believing, understand that you are responsible for your choices, whether Karma or Destiny or none.
Selah
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