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Destiny and Change
Tejinder Narang
Destiny of life cannot be changed
nor known. None would be unhappy if destiny could be managed by free will or
advance intimation. Freewill and destiny are self –contradictory. Then how do
we make choices? An example-it is akin to game of playing cards. After randomly
shuffling the pack, players are distributed a set of unknown cards. Players win
or lose by using those limited cards/choices, depending upon constraints of
personal intelligence. At human level, they appear to playing of their own. At Divine
level, availability of choices/cards is not in their hands; nor the intelligence
or thought process triggered by a set of cards.
At human level choices do exist. At Divine level, they do not.
If each individual is to
determine his/her destiny, the world would be chaotic. Furthermore a person’s
destiny is intricately interwoven with his parents, relations and society.
Altering any single event means interfering in the entire societal fabric.
Sufism classifies mystics in two broad
groups—the first who adhere to the Lord’s “raza” or “ahle-raza” or those who live in absolute surrender to His will,
and others who seek mercy by “Duaa” or “ahle-duaa”
category- those who pray for divine mercy with
invocation if the “Lord so wishes”, because the Lord knows the best. Thus both groups endorse unqualified
allegiance to supremacy of Destiny/Divinity.
Now the counter fact--life is
also governed by principle of change. All that transpires or is bound to
transpire shall change. Despite incontrovertible operation of destiny, it gets
replaced or changed by another set of destined conditions any moment. Destiny and
change are intertwined in temporal realm of “illusive Reality”. However the writer of destiny has no destiny
and remains changeless.
Beautifully explained the concept of change and destiny.I think whatever little freewill we have is also destined.we are in an illusion that we have achieved such and such targets. Actually nothing is in our hands
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