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one’s knowledge, desires and interests. Thus, you can put in
the right efforts if you are determined to do so. And this is
the real success of this valuable human birth. Leave everything
to destiny and you are bound to fail.

What is destiny’s role?

Q. Then doesn’t destiny do anything?

Ans. It does. It is responsible for the creation of certain
specific circumstances. Owing to Punya, you get birth in a
good family but who will determine the particular parents
to whom you are born? Destiny. Similarly, King Shrenik
possessed the Punya of attaining a noble queen; be it
Sujyeshtha or Chellana, it’s equal. But he had strived for
Sujyeshtha and he attained Chellana; this is again destiny’s
role.

Similarly, Chellana also possessed the Punya of obtaining a
virtuous husband which would have fructified on the
attainment of some other noble man, too. But in spite of
Sujyeshtha’s efforts, Chellana was blessed with King Shrenik
as her husband due to the effect of the mighty destiny.

Also, Sulsa’s 32 sons had the Punya to earn a good living

which could be acquired from anywhere but it was destiny
which arranged for them to be employed at Shrenik’s palace.
They happened to go along to defend Shrenik while
collecting Sujyeshtha, and their inauspicious Ashata Karmas
caused their death. Such a situation was also an outcome
of destiny.

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