What is “destiny?” Simply put, destiny is the manifesting/manifested result of karma. What does that mean, though?
Well, you wake up every morning. Stuff happens. Sometimes
you consider this stuff to be “good” stuff, sometimes “bad.” How
you classify this stuff is a matter of perception, which we’ll discuss
on another day. The fact of the matter is, any day that you wake
up… stuff will happen. As sure as stuff will happen, you
will react to said stuff. Cause and effect. One way to take
control of your life at any given moment is to become a person of
action, rather than a person of reaction. Most people initially
react significantly more than they initially act.
Whether you are acting or reacting in any given moment, you are
generating a karmic force. Any action that you take must be
proceeded by a thought. You cannot perform any action without
initially having thought of said action; it’s impossible. Don’t
mistake my over-simplified example as a law. Karma is a topic that
we’ll discuss at length in the future, for now we are grossly
over-simplifying. The point is, every moment of every day with the
thoughts you think and the actions you perform, you are making deposits
into your own personal karmic “bank account.” At the same moment,
you are making withdraws from the same account. The
manifestation, which is to say “the appearance in or on the physical
realm,” of the results of this karmic account is what we refer to as
“Destiny.” Because fundamentally, destiny is that which happens to
you in any given moment; it’s not just the epic events that are
destiny. When it comes to the facts of the matter, it has to be
all or nothing. You meeting and marrying your “soul mate” is no
more or less your destiny than what you ate for breakfast… again, since
we’re presently dealing with a gross over-simplification.
The standard argument then, is this: If everything is planned out
like this, then where does Free-Will come into it or are we simply
characters in a Universal play that is already pre-determinded such that
we get no say in our own lives?
The answer is yes and no. See, that karmic account that you are
perpetually crediting and debiting from… it has existed for as long as
you have existed as a consciously aware individual being. Now,
there was a particular point at which this came to be. In a
nutshell, the biblical story of Adam & Eve is a metaphor for this
event, which every single person alive on the planet Earth today
experienced. This is explained in great detail in T & D,
but regrettably there’s no way to properly condense that into an
acceptable length for use within this blog post. In a nutshell,
every single one of us was given a simple trial, or test, and every
single one of us on Earth failed. Those who passed, there was no
cause for them to exist in this world of birth and death and birth and
death… those who passed said test skipped this grade and went directly
to that place which we shall all go once we work ourselves out of this
karmic hole that we have dug for ourselves. See, life as we know
it is basically just a cul-de-sac on the road of existence. We
turn into it, and whoops realize it’s a cul-de-sac and eventually we
reach the end, turn around go back and get on the main road. No
matter who you are and what you do and how you feel about yourself or
any other human being… we’re all just hanging out in this cul-de-sac,
some of us on our way in and some on our way out, but we are all in this
Universal cul-de-sac together. Because we all failed that which T & D terms “the trial test of the sexes.”
Now, from that point on, we began this karmic system of credits and
debits. So you see, you have been accessing this account for an
amount of time that can fairly be called “eternity.” From our
human perspective, it might as well be forever, in that it extends back
well beyond a time such that we are able to remember or even
conceptualize. In that amount of time, you have been pauper and
prince, man and woman, grandparent and child… you have been hater and
hated, lover and fighter, noble and pathetic. The sum part of your
entire past is credited into your account; every thought and action you
have ever create and performed is there on the ledger. Only you
are responsible for this ledger. There is no absolution.
Jesus didn’t die for your sins to be wiped clean. That is simply
another metaphor; a metaphor for the moment when you acknowledge
accountability for your actions and resolve to correct them… which is
simply restoring to balance all that you have caused to be imbalanced as
a result of these past thoughts and deeds. Once you accept this
accountability, Jesus has thus died for your sins… metaphorically
speaking. So… don’t let him die in vain, or something.
That aside, I hope I have effectively established the existence of
this karmic account and how, as a result of innumerable past lives, you
have basically set up a system such that seemingly random events can now
take place in any moment of any day… all of which are your destiny, as
dictated by your karma. So, you see, you do have free will to
react to your present circumstances, but that reaction will cause
manifestation at some future point the circumstances that exists as a
direct result of that prior action. You will then react to those
circumstances, which are then your destiny, and said reactions (and
thoughts related to said actions) become karmic deposits towards that
future manifestation. Never forget; all things are cyclical.
When next we meet, we’ll speak more directly about karma.