You say, “Anyway, nothing is going to happen. What is written is written. So what is the point of acting? Let me just sleep and rot.” All this concept of destiny is a dirty trick to justify your laziness and cowardice. There’s nothing called destiny. However, there is something called randomness, and that randomness you cannot control. But that randomness is not destiny. You have the agency to respond rightly to that randomness. You always have a choice. Always.
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Questioner: I'm Kanak, and my question is not related to anybody, but my question is that it is related to destiny. When we say that everything is destined, aur sab kuch likha hua hota hai. So, how is suicide not a part of destiny? How do we consider suicide as a sin? And is destiny the universal truth, or is it just that people are made to believe in destiny just to keep them within the personal boundaries?
Acharya Prashant: This should have been the first part of the question. What is destiny? Is there any truth in it? That should have been the first part. And then you say, “If destiny holds some truth, then how is suicide a crime?” That's how you structure the question.
What do you think of destiny?
Questioner: At least as of how we are told about destiny — everything is written, even before you're born. You are here, everything that happens in your life, the events that happen in your lives, they are all written, they are going to happen as...
