For instance, when a boy and a girl meet suddenly, and feelings begin to develop in someone’s heart for the other, they refer to it as destiny, an act of Divine plan.
Destiny is a word which simply means that life is full of unexpected events, things that are beyond our conscious control, or things we did not plan and cannot be understood by the surface reason. Obviously, everyone experiences such events in life. So in this sense, Destiny exists.
The difference arises in terms of explanation. Thus, some explain these sudden, unexpected turns in life as merely chance and accidents. This is the typical view of maternal science and the way reason tries to explain it. However, Chance is merely a word which means that we do not understand how and why things happen.
The spiritual explanation is that whatever happened was predestined in the sense that it had to happen because it was the Will of God. This is also not a complete explanation since we do not know how and why God planned this for us.
The simplest way, however, to understand Destiny is that our hidden thoughts, feelings, wishes, desires, aspirations are like threads with which Destiny is woven. Its purpose is to help us grow more and more conscious until we become masters of our destiny.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
