If we are destined to succeed will destiny make us act for success?

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Thank you So what is stronger? Is it our destiny is stronger? Is our Will our actions are stronger? If I am destined to be a millionaire Then Is it that destiny will determine The actions that I do? Yeah, it’s a good question As I said that Whenever we have Any philosophical frame of analysis The reality Is always much more complex than Any frame that we use for analysis So just like You have a map of the world Here is Canada Here is America If you go actually It’s not that on the territory We have cleared This is the border, this is Canada, this is America Sometimes they give disputed territories So the point which I am making is Any system of classification, any system of analysis Taxonomy does not translate into reality directly So when I say this is Our actions are in our control Our destiny determines Our free will determines what we do And destiny determines what reactions we get Or what happens to us And how we respond is free will That’s true at one level It’s also true That destiny Can influence our actions also Now it is We do have free will But we are In certain circumstances pushed Towards other things And in certain circumstances we are pushed towards other things So although We are not forced but we are pushed Now we can counter push But we are Pushed towards other things At a simple level to understand All of us have certain Inclinations In the Bhagavad Gita it is classified As Kaur Varnas Some of us are intellectual Some of us are more martial managers Some of us are more market director And this is basically an inclination That is the way a person tends to act So that is Also driven by destiny So in that sense We are not entirely free to choose our actions We have some free will Some scope to our free will So now there are There are Situations when When by our destiny We are guided towards Good choices We are impelled to do certain things And this concept of destiny Was actually for me one of the toughest concepts To explain Except Just before I was introduced to Krishna Consciousness I had Given my GRE exam And it was my dream To be a topper Throughout my academic career And I was always among the top But I was never the number one We joined first, second, third But never one, number one And then when I gave my GRE I got at that time 2350 out of 2400 I was not only the First, I was the first in the history of my college I was the first in The whole state of Maharashtra So then After that I read Bhagavad Gita Everything is determined by destiny Happiness comes by destiny Happiness will also come by destiny No, if I had not worked I would not have got those marks Obviously, I worked so hard That’s why I got it But over the years, I realized that I did work hard But Even when we Work hard There is a frame of mind Sometimes the mind just goes so wide In modern psychology People talk about, they call it The flow or some high performance zone Or in cricket The batsman is in form The batsman is in form, any stroke they hit It just goes to the boundary Now, no batsman ever wants to be Out of form But they go out of form Now, out of form doesn’t just mean bad things happen to them The umpire rules them out when they are not out No, they themselves are not able to bat properly So now, why is a batsman Sometimes in form, sometimes out of form Even when the batsman is in form The batsman is playing very well And that being in form Is also partially related to how the batsman Has practiced and disciplined And has skills But there is There is a tide to human affairs Which can just push us up We have to be rowing We have to be doing our part But when that tide comes, it just pushes us up So sometimes when we are destined for some success At that time We are just pushed towards making those choices I remember When I was giving a GRE exam I was so obsessed with Studying for that exam That I would have those flashcards And when we were crossing a road I would have one flashcard and memorise the word And then by the time we would cross the road I would take another card and memorise the word And then I would cross the next road I have not been able to memorise Bhagavad Gita verses like that Although I tried It was just At that time When we are destined towards some success It’s like some Power takes hold of us And it makes us do certain things So yes Sometimes when we are Destined for success It is that we do work hard There is no denying our hard work But there is Something else which seems to take control of us And enables us to do the right thing Our part is there in it In doing the right thing But there is something more than us also So yes, if something is destined to happen Then Just as misery comes Without our special endeavour So, happiness also comes We endeavour specially But we are almost like made to endeavour at that time So yes If something is destined to happen Then we will be inspired to do those things At that time by which we get that destined Does that answer your question?