But Dada here is a specific question: if you really like someone, and you don’t know whether that person is Your Fate or not, but just doing Tapasya, worshipping Lord Shiva and Mata Gauri/Parvati, can a miracle happen?
There are three different questions here, intertwined with each other.
First is if Fate can change. Well, yes, in principle it can change. But there is a little clause in it. Fate is like a balance drawn in the book of Destiny. Each action, thought, will, feeling goes into tilting the balance one way or the other. That afterall is the law of Karma that it is we who write the story of our destiny by calling various forces into play that arrange events and circumstances.
Yes, prayers can modify Fate, but the great gods know what is best for us. In our ignorance, we want things that may not be good for us, for our true destiny. The Divine may sometimes grant it not because it is good for us but because we sometimes need to learn from experience that what we desperately wanted was not the right thing. It was not good for us. This learning then becomes a permanent lesson ingrained in our soul.
We normally look at events and circumstances and situations as our fate. But these are like the experiences on the way. The real meaning of Fate is the path and the goal we are truly destined for. That generally cannot be changed. What can be changed is the journey, the people around us, the events and happenings, the time and difficulties through which we shall arrive and attain.
With regard to wanting someone things become complicated. If the person is even a little awakened then it cannot obviously a one-sided prayer. One may pray and do penances to marry someone but that someone is not an object or automaton. He or she has their own destiny. And unless they are aligned, it would be a disaster for both if they came together.
That is why the highest word of wisdom is surrender. One can always pray and ask. It is given to man and prayers do have the power to change the balance of Fate. But just as we have the right to pray, the Divine has the right to grant or not grant. We should always trust the Divine Wisdom and have the faith that if something is not granted, it is for our good that we may not be able to see at this moment.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
