Suppose Krishna desires me to win a race but I decide to not participate – what happens?
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suppose there is a race in which Krishna desires that I should win but I don’t desire to participate what will happen? Krishna sanctions Krishna does not desire.
Sanction means it is we who desire and Krishna sanctions in general in this world with respect to specific actions especially for those who are not devotees Krishna says I am sitting as if detached it’s like Krishna is like umpire in a cricket match the umpire the batsman may bowl a ball and when the ball wraps on the legs the players may be like out bat now the umpire may say is out or not out but the ball has missed the leg the ball has missed the bat, the ball has bowled the wicket the umpire raises his hand, you are out leg before wicket, when the ball was not before the wicket the ball went by so the umpire doesn’t take decisions on their own initiative it is only after certain events happen the bowler has bowled a good ball, the batsman has missed the line of the ball when there is appeal the umpire sanctions the umpire is expected to be neutral the umpire is not expected to decide this side should win and this side should lose that is the quality of umpire, the umpire should be neutral so Krishna does not desire political results now it is true that there is something called destiny by destiny you are meant to get certain things and by destiny you may not get certain things but rather than thinking of destiny as rigidly formed we have to understand that rigidly formed destiny is also dynamic there is certain quantity of pleasure, certain quantity of pain that we are going to get but then how we get it is also shaped by how we act in this world so in this life so I may be meant to gain the pleasure of winning a particular event but if I don’t participate in the race then I may not get that pleasure there I will get it in some other way so destiny determines the overall quantity of pleasure and pain in our life it does not necessarily determine the specific form in which we get the pleasure or pain that we can definitely adjust and the specific form is also determined not just by the past karma that we have done it is also determined by our present actions does that answer your question?