"I will make my own destiny" means that you believe you are in control of your life and that you are responsible for your actions and their outcomes. It can also mean that you believe you can shape your future through hard work and perseverance.
Take responsibility: You are responsible for your thoughts, feelings, actions, and results. Learn from failures: You can learn from your failures and come out stronger. Have self-belief: You believe that nothing is impossible and that you can achieve your dreams. Have a never-give-up attitude: You keep trying until you achieve your goals. Have passion and focus: You are passionate about your goals and focused on achieving them. ALL THE ABOVE ARE ACTIONS OF A STHITHAPRAGNAN AND NOT THAT OF AN EGOIST. 2 Forbes says:” There will always be a challenge. Regardless of who you are, what your background is, and what your desires are, there will be challenges—some extreme—that are placed in your path. These challenges, while difficult, create unique opportunities. These feed each other and are what drove both my parents to strive ever harder to create a successful business for themselves and their family. Challenge requires grit. Grit yields character and success. Embrace it. Remember who you are and what you stand for. Just as my father taught me as we walked away from billions of dollars—your values and what you stand for truly matter the most. THP has been an inseparable part of our family’s DNA, and the second generation remains as committed to it today as the first generation was in the 1990s when my parents started building it up. We are led by core values that are based on the values we hold dear as a family. When you are committed to those values, people will value them as well. Do not fear change or failure. Like all great entrepreneurs, my father is not afraid of failure. In fact, I would say he actively embraces it because he knows it will teach him valuable lessons, which will enable him to reach even greater heights in the future. Likewise, my parents taught that while change can be terrifying, there is nothing to fear. This is incorporated into one of THP’s core values: “Today is better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow. Progress is never-ending; each day being a little better than the one before.” Be resilient and teachable. So much of success is built from persistence and resilience. When you understand the value in overcoming obstacles and making the best of any situation before you, that resilience unveils opportunities you never dreamed of. Likewise, each individual you encounter has something valuable for you to learn. Those who place importance on continuous learning will benefit greatly from expanded understanding. When you have a positive, can-do attitude, nothing is impossible. No matter what happens, when you focus on the results you want to achieve, never give up until you have reached them. 3 According to the Bhagavad Gita, destiny is the result of a person's past actions, or karma. However, the Gita also teaches that destiny is not fixed, and that people can act independently through free will. Karma The Bhagavad Gita teaches that a person's destiny is determined by their karma, or actions. The universe responds to a person's actions, both in this life and in the next. Free will The Bhagavad Gita also teaches that people have free will to act independently. The Bhagavad Gita teaches that people should do their duty without being attached to the results. Spirituality The Bhagavad Gita teaches that people can become spiritually accomplished and change their swa-dharma, or duty. Verse Verse 2.47 of the Bhagavad Gita is a popular verse that discusses the proper spirit of work. It instructs people to do their duty without being attached to the results. 4 ACHARYA SAYS: “Many people ask this question. I think anybody that has not considered it for themself is, if they say they haven’t considered it, they’re probably being untruthful. Most people like to really—they wonder about, “What does the future have in store for me?” Not so much for others, for me, this is like a big focus. People question, “Am I controlled by some higher force? Am I controlled by the stars?” This is the big fascination with astrology. Everybody likes to get the paper or on their newsfeed or whatever and look at their astrological predictions for the day or for the year. We question, “Is my course, the course in my life, somehow divinely ordained?” And this falls more within the scope of people that are more religiously inclined, you know, “Does God have a particular plan for me and what is that plan? Or is my life simply an arbitrary course of events?” as many people in the scientific community would state. The big question is, “Is my destiny actually set in stone? Is it rock solid? Is it something that is not going to change? Or do I play some kind of a role in determining my future? Do we have some role in our own future? And can we, in fact, change our destiny?” Before—well I think that things that we’ve just pretty much run over, are the opposing arguments of, “Are things in my life pre-ordained? Or do I have free will to determine and to set the course for things?” But before we get into discussing it, when anybody thinks about destiny and they think about what is going to be in store for me in my life, there’s a certain premise or certain foundation they have. When you think about “my life” we generally are trying to think about all of the positive things that can happen and how those things that I consider to be positive, or good things, are actually going to make my life really wonderful, if not perfect, at least way better than it is. And these are the questions that people put to themselves and to anybody else they that think can sort of help them. When people, for instance, if they find out that you’ve made any, even rudimentary, study of Vedic astrology, Jyotish, then immediately you get peppered with all these kinds of questions. It’s quite—actually quite selfish and a little bit—not unexpected but it’s really—because we live in this dimension. We’re sort of obsessing: “What’s going to happen to me? Where are things going? Am I going to find someone to love and to love me? Am I going to be able to do what I want? Am I going to have a career? Am I going to succeed? Am I going to be able to have these talents?” You know. We have this preconceived idea that somehow if I acquire all of these things that I’ve just mentioned that somehow my life is going to be more perfect or more wonderful. You know, we don’t stop to consider people that are more advanced in these areas, like the big movie stars and the rock stars and everything. I mean, how perfect is your life when you feel the need to get a little bit lost in intoxication or lost in a pornographic addiction or lost in, you know, the use of mind-altering substances to just sort of like help you to get through the day? So we will touch on that as we go a little bit further into the conversation. What we have to, I think, understand and appreciate, is that there are three, probably three, primary things that principally shape our destiny. Everybody’s going like, “Okay, what are these three things?” If I ask you what they would be most people will kind of like get a little startled and start thinking rather hard and trying to figure it out. It is actually good to think about and consider. One of them is what I will call inescapable events - events which are sort of hardwired into or are part of the material existence. So I’m going to talk a little bit in detail about that after I’ve gone through the other couple of things because it really warrants some deep consideration because it really does affect, you know, the question. It answers to some degree the question that we may pose about destiny. So a second thing has to do with past karma. The word ‘karma’ in Sanskrit means action and according to the law or laws of karma, then due to actions that I have performed, they will bear a fruit, and that fruit we may consider sweet, that fruit we may consider very bitter, but it does play a very big role in our experience of destiny. They—these kinds of things are basically categorised as stuff that almost seems to come of its own accord; like out of nowhere something shows up, something that—I suddenly win the lottery or I get hit by a car, you know, when I’m just driving peacefully down the street not doing anything wrong. These types of events in our life, according to the understanding that we receive from Bhagavad-gita and all of the Vedic scripture, these events are not just attributed to actions that we have taken in this life. They can be attributed to actions that we have taken in a previous life. Now this understanding of what’s sometimes called reincarnation and probably more accurately described as the transmigration of the soul, is a reality. Every single person born into this world comes—they show up with baggage. People see a new born baby and everybody just gushes and it’s like, “Oh it’s so cute,” and, you know, we think it’s just so amazingly wonderful. And it’s really quite an amazing event to see the birth of a child and to experience that event. It is quite wondrous. But what we are not seeing is that child, number one, it is not a child. It is a being, a living being who is temporarily in that body. Ten months prior to the birth you may not have thought, looking at that person in whatever body they were in, that it is so brilliantly attractive and so cute. Could have been a 90-year-old person with no teeth, coughing up mucus, hardly able to talk, passing urine and stool uncontrollably in their bed or whatever, and you just would be like just so uninclined to go anywhere near that person and cuddle it and whatever, unless you were a particularly compassionate person. But now that there’s been a change of body caused by the event of death, all of a sudden we think that the slate has been wiped clean, and that is not a fact. The family that you are born into, the type of society that you will be born into, the economic status, the opportunity for learning, all of these things, the country, all of these things, have been predetermined, predetermined by activity that you have undertaken in a former life. And so that baby, that looks like it’s showing up all fresh and brand spanking new and ready to roll has come with an enormous amount of baggage, and throughout that person’s life these bags will be opened and will start unpacking. We will see the fruits of past karmic action, things that we have done, beginning to manifest. This you do not have any control over. And I will speak to the reality that you can escape from the influence of these things through a spiritual process but they do form a large part of our destiny and they are inescapable. In addition to this, there is the karma, or the action that we are performing day to day. This is going to affect our life. I don’t know if you’ve heard the saying: “The harder I worked, the luckier I got.” (laughs) Have you? I don’t know if you’ve heard that or not. It’s a really—it’s actually a really good expression because it reflects the actual reality of the situation that you can shape your so-called luck or fortune by things. Certain things come and we—like for instance there are people in this world that are born sometimes into great poverty or great difficulty, and within their lifetime they may rise to become multi-millionaires. I know a number of people like this. Unfortunately, sometimes people think, “Oh well, I created my own luck. It was all because of my intelligence, my hard work.” That is a part of it, maybe a big part of it but being in the right time at the right place to be able to have an opportunity offered to you and for you to be equipped adequately to be able to take advantage of that opportunity is not solely your own doing. It may not be your own doing at all. But that does not mean that this idea: “The harder I work, the luckier I get,” is not also a reality. In spite of where you find yourself due to past karma or karmic reactions you can still alter events in your life or you—not so much alter as shape what is going to happen and how your life is going to move. This lies within your control. So these three things are there. I’m now going to just, as I mentioned, go back to talking about the inescapable events that I mentioned before that will happen in your life. Four of them are considered really significant and they simply come with the territory. The fact that you have a material body, the fact that you have been born, you’ve taken birth in this world, you will experience four things, and as I stated, they are inescapable. One is of course, once you have been born, your body is going to go through a process of aging. And in spite of what science tells you or people like to think that you’re going to be able to live forever in this particular body, this body can live forever; it is simply not true. Perpetual youthfulness is also not a reality. This is part of the nature of the material world that when you are born, you are going to go through the process of aging. Second, is that during your lifetime you will encounter disease. According to the level of bad karma that you reap the result of; the disease may become frequent or they may become very grave. But even if you don’t have a lot of bad health karma or the fruit of bad health karma coming your way, nonetheless, you will experience the reality of disease because it is part of material existence. With life in this body, in this world, comes death. Death is inescapable. When you show up, when a little baby shows up, most people don’t see that its death is born along with it. The amount of time that you will live within this body, unless you artificially do something to terminate your life in this body, committing suicide; if you run the normal course, your death is certain. It is inescapable. And having died, taking birth again is also inescapable. It is part of the reality of things. Bhagavad-gita 2:72 So I mean, just on this verse alone there is so much to discuss but I will simply leave it with you and if you wish - and I do encourage you - that perhaps you can come back to this video at some later time and replay it and pause on some of these quotes and contemplate on it and consider the meaning of it and consider the relevance in relation to my own life. So as a recap, yes, your destiny is in your hands: what you are due to experience, inescapably, is going to be there, the result of your past choices, the result of the choices that you are making at this very juncture in your life. If you want to come to a spiritual position in which you do not have to taste the bitter fruit of karma - and all fruits of karma, whether considered good or bad, actually become bitter. As Patanjali says, they deliver sorrow. You can, by your own choice, by the exercise of your own will, determine your greatest good fortune, your spiritual destiny. It is completely up to you. It is entirely in your hands. AND KR SAYS THEETHUM NANDRUM PIRAR THARA VAARA SO I CREATE MY DESTINY WHEN I DO NOT HAVE THE BRAHMAM AS MY PARTNER; BUT WHEN BRAHMAM IS WITH ME ALL ARE CREATED FOR MY BETTERMENT ONLY WHERE I MADE THE DESTINY OF MONE IN JANAMAS TO PURSUE. K RAJARAM IRS 16125 On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 08:16, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]> wrote: > After Vivekananda finished his stirring speech on Hinduism at the Chicago > conference, which had the whole world in awe.. A white man full of malice > asked Vivekananda.. > > "Oh Indian ascetic. You have spoken well of your religious pride. But your > country is still enslaved. Even when a small Christian Island enslaves and > rules your great country and its Hindu people, your Hindu religion is > powerless to save its people and when your Hinduism is incapable of saving > your own country. How can that be a good path.." he asked with mocking > venom. > > Swami Vivekananda very well aware that the question was asked by a > supporter of missionaries who wanted to make India a Christian country by > converting Indians to Christianity and his question also was not Hinduism > correct! It was also in the form of an argument to win over Vivekananda and > convert Hindus. > > Understanding that, Vivekananda said "The cause of our country's problems > is not Hinduism, but the ignorance of our people who do not understand it > properly and have been living more like a Slave to under the influence of > you as mentioned of a small Christian Island. > > What is needed here for Indians there is not another religion, it is > enough to make Hindus understand who they are, and there will be an > uprising there. The day will come soon When a pure Hindu rules our country, > the world will understand and recognize us and our great Hindu > philosophical ideology. > > In that direction I will start it in India from the south, I will do my > best. Surely one day my land will be ruled by a pure Hindu, and on that day > you will feel its impact in America too," he said. > > Yes, the words of good sages and yogis do not lie. India has also taken a > place in the list of countries in the world that have overcome the crisis > of the time of disaster and have become economically advanced and the time > will soon come when India will become the guru of the world. > > Vivekananda realized that the future of India is in the hands of the youth > and chalanged them *Give me a hundred patriotic youths..I will change > India*, said Vivekananda. > > "A coward and a fool will say this is my destiny." > "The strong man says, 'I will make my own destiny'" > > This is the motto of Swami Vivekananda. Let us cherish our nation and our > religion with both eyes. If everyone follows this, a strong India will make > its own destiny. > > All the strength and help you need are within you." Swami Vivekananda's > thoughts are still a guide for the youth today. > > Let all Learn to obey, follow the teaching of Swami Vivekananda, who gave > good advice to the youth that command will automatically come to you!! > > Swami Vivekananda may not be with us today. Good people never disappear. > Swami will continue to shine as the Guru of the world until India shines as > the Guru of the world. It is certain that Vivekananda's soul will continue > to visit all over India. > > N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004 > > *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you > become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to > a goal, not to people or things "* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoq%2BkTO2Y80_H_1G-ajKASKTThAdUrGVwH77MU87OkS5UA%40mail.gmail.com.
