I often notice people stuck with this thought ...
Most of us are found requesting God to grant something specific.
People in agony wonder why this happened to them and trace it out to something wrong they did in past.
Life of course has its highs and lows.
Desiring for the "highs" and wanting to be away from the "lows" is natural.
Among these feelings there is one element of belief I have seen ruling people of today (mainly in India) -"Astrology"
Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs.
Not being the expert or even a student of this subject gives me no authority to question the accuracy of predictions.
However I am mind boggled thinking of the extent to which we should let this govern our life.
I confess there are many times I have seen my own kundali while looking for a job change, desiring a location transfer, looking for the perfect match :)...so on and so forth .
In my case this was mostly out of curiosity.
The pandit's told me things about my future, they also told me things I need "to-do" to ensure a better future.
I often carried out the "to-dos" thinking a Puja or Havana doesn’t harm anyways.
Sometimes I did get what I asked for - not sure if it was just in my fate or a ripple effect of the Puja done.
Not just me ,a lot of us do this and it seems justified in some way …or maybe we don’t even care to look for a justification.
I am pondering on the extent to which we should let this affect our decisions.
While taking a step ahead in one direction which may rule the rest of our life.
Does it make sense to analyze what we have in reality, the facts in front of us and trust that we would achieve our target
Or
Go by the fear of unknown, see if it fits well in our "kundali" and if it does not change our decision completely?
Personally- I have chosen to trust myself a little more than my kundali.
My mind fails to trust predictions which vary from one Pandit to the other.
They do come true at times - let us say they do 90% of the times ,still I would go by the 10% chance and try myself/my luck.
I believe in destiny
"Something that is meant to happen will happen no matter how hard you try to stop it and
Something which is not for you will never come your way no matter how hard you try to make it happen"
We shouldn’t ever leave working towards realizing our dreams.
Discontinuing effort guarantees failure ,by trying you still have a chance to succeed and even if we fail ,we would not be left with “what if I did” in mind.
Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom
Fear of the Unknown is losing faith in your own
