​How is daiva related to karma?

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So for getting the phala, we need karma, Daiva and karma.
So what exactly determines Daiva? So Daiva is determined by our past karma. Destiny is basically an accumulation of our past karma. Our past is not just the previous life.
Many past lives might be there. All that has accumulated together as our destiny. And so in that sense, we are the creators of our destiny.
But we are not the creators of our immediate destiny in the sense that we cannot determine or change everything that is going to happen in our future. But what we do is going to change our future in a small or a big way. So that whatever happens in our life, that is destiny.
But that is also a reaction to, that is also a manifestation of the reactions to our past karma. You understand the question? Is there any difference between karma and destiny? Is there any difference between karma and destiny? I explained yesterday. I talked about the four meanings of karma.
And I told the second meaning is essentially equivalent to destiny. Reaction to past karma. But destiny is basically, it is not just a past karma coming down like a big lump upon us.
It comes in a particular way. That is karma, Daiva and Daiva. So under the divine supervision, we get a particular reaction.
Different reactions at different times.