Dick explained: “A drunkard had two sons. The elder became a doctor and the younger a boozer. When they were interviewed, the younger son said, “I copied father’s drinking habit and became a tavern tourist”. The elder one said, “I saw the unhappy home atmosphere and was determined to be different.”
Here the situation was the same and the response different; because the elder brother used his ‘free will’ and created destiny with self-motivation; and the younger one used his ‘free will’ and created his destiny with shilly-shally, wavering tendency. Thus their destinies were different.
Tom said: “If one’s destiny is created by one’s ‘free will’, then how is it that so many precious lives are lost in plane and train accidents. Did all of them use their ‘free will’ to die like that?”
Dick explained, “They all used their ‘free will’, to board a train or a plane, and be at the railway station or at the airport at a particular time. Once that decision was made, they were bound to accept its consequences; as life is a link of free will and fate.
Secondly, the result of fate is death, downfall, destruction or doom. Free will is God’s gift; Death Day is God’s secret. In short, Fate is divinely planned, whereas destiny is in man’s hand.
Harry broke his silence saying, “Fate and destiny are two different words having same meaning. Everything is based on events that stimulates other events and incites us to positive or negative response.
It happens like this: “Our skull is locked with parental voices; locked with childhood dreams; bathed with knowledge acquired through college; and bathed with influence of people with whom we move. All this gets stuck in our head with good and ‘misguided’ beliefs. All this is fuel in our mind – Stimulating material; which wrestles inside with wild and mild thoughts; kindling the fire of response — and men put up their life-show which is their reaction on their journey to the next world.
Everything is based on events that stimulate other events and incites us to positive or negative response e.g.It was an eventful wedding, for a girl who married a rich boy. The fact, that a poor girl entering a rich home, stimulated her dominating mother-in-law to be more dictatorial. In a shocking event the wedded girl lost her parents in a tragic accident during the last stage of pregnancy at her mother’s house. This sad occurrence quickened her choice to go back to her husband’s home where her dominating mother-in-law was obsessed with the idea of a grandson to be the heir to their vast property.
Her deliver event disappointed her mother-in-laws and also her husband because the first born in the house happened to be a girl. Thereafter, her life in her husband’s house was that of ill-treatment which stimulated her to suicide, although, she had the free will to go against her feelings of despair. But she didn’t trust God’s ability to transform her life from trouble to cheer.
Life is full of crossroads of circumstances brought together by events. We have to decide with our “free will” which way to go.
