What is Destiny?

What is Destiny?

Many of us wonder about this word Destiny. 

The Oxford Dictionary defines it as:

"1 .the things that happen to you in your life, especially things that you cannot control" and "2. a power that people believe controls their lives"

        Irrespective of the above definitions what is that an individual thinks, that is what is most important. Because Destiny is what we think in our deepest thoughts and what we want it to get materialized. There is a very ancient Vedic Saying - "yad bhāvam tad bhavati यद्  भावं  तद् भवति " - What you think/feel so it becomes. So DEstInY - can be defined as Design Established by Inner You or Design Established by The Inner You or Design Established In You. What it indicates is that our Destiny is established by our own self and this could have been established from time immemorial, may be many lives or many incarnations, but completely based upon our own thought processes and patterns.

        The surrender to a Higher Energy or Cosmos or some 'form or formless' of Supreme is where the Design can be altered, because in true surrender, the self-thinking process is surrendered and all the activities are carried out from the realm of intuition rather than the realm of ego.

        So next time whenever we read or comeacross this word, let us take a pause and self-reflect on what we are thinking and do we really want it to get materialized in some way in our future. If not let us let go the thinking or those thought patterns and intuitionally develop harmony with the Cosmos.