It is a very wrong idea to believe in good or bad “luck”. We should get rid of such ideas and never allow such wrong thinking to influence us. Scriptures teach us that good effects or good results come from good causes, and that bad results come from bad causes.
A person who does not do clear thinking and whose actions are not good cannot reasonably say that the bad effects that come into his life are just “bad luck”. Bad thinking and bad living produce bad conditions of life. On the other hand, good thinking and good action produce good conditions of life. It is superstitious to believe in “luck”.
We make our own happiness or unhappiness and there is no such thing as luck. Every thing that happens in our life happens as a result of a cause we have ourselves have created. It is only the weak-hearted who fall victim of influences of certain stars and planets on people, and their imaginations aggravate the situation. Do not surrender yourself giving up your efforts thinking you have no good luck nor should you allow to be a victim of worries. That can only hinder progress of your career.
If a man’s failure is due to his bad deeds, he can overcome that by doing more good. To do good it is not necessary for him to spend anything; instead he can do a lot of meritorious deeds through his sympathy, tolerance, patience, loving kindness and understanding. If his failure is due to his inefficiency, inexperience or laziness he must try to improve himself and learn how to overcome his failure without blaming the stars.
Again, there is no such theory as inevitable fate or irrevocable destiny. We can often observe how certain faults we committed yesterday are alone responsible for the unhappiness or ill-health we experience today. The wise say, we are heirs to our deeds: our deeds are our heritage; our deeds are our inheritance.
Destiny is something entirely self-created, self-earned, whether it is for good or for evil. Destiny is not a blind force; it is one expression of the greater cosmic intelligence, God, Who rules the universe. It has a purpose to fulfil, and that purpose, so far as man is concerned is an educational one. There is no motive of punishment in that divine force. As a man creates his own destiny by his thoughts, feelings and actions, he gets back unerringly from life sooner or later what he himself gives to life.
Man can make those things also happen which were not destined to happen. One should therefore, overcome one’s unfavourable destiny by greater efforts in the present, with all his God-given gifts. There is nothing in this world which cannot be achieved by men by right sort of efforts. Man can overcome the universal law of suffering and death if he acts in accordance with the universal law of morality and cultivates his mind and purifies it by using his intelligence; he can mould his life according to his wish and shape his destiny without depending upon some external forces.
