Fate: Are we resigned to it?

Sometimes people bring up the question of fate. It goes something like ‘if we are fated to have something happen to us then what use is your book? As it won’t change my fate’. Or something like ‘a rishi (Hindu holy man) told me I would get hurt on my leg quite seriously and he was right. I was in an accident that damaged my leg badly’. Or I have a child with cystic fibrosis, what is his or her fate?
Well it is true that there is something called fate. There are some lessons we are here to learn. However the nature of the lesson can express itself in many ways. So although we are fated to learn lessons-such lessons don’t always have to come from tragedy. Let me tell you a true story that is many years old.
There was a holy man who was returning to his place of stay in the Himalayas and on the way he stopped by in a village where he was provided with food and water at a house. At this house was a boy of 16 who on seeing the holy man asked permission to accompany the saints return to the Himalayas and spend a few months to gain some knowledge.
So the boy and holy man went away to the Himalayas. A month later the holy man was explaining the science of palmistry to the young boy by looking at the boys palm and he immediately noticed something that shocked him. He told the boy to return home the next day to his family and come back a month later. The saint did not explain why buy told him it was very important he do so.

A month later the saint was shocked to see the boy approaching his cave and immediately asked the boy to tell him everything that had happened since leaving the saint a month ago. The boy explained that rains had began that day he left and he had to cross a small stream that had developed. He had noticed an ant hill near to the stream and was certain the ants would drown once the stream got bigger with the rain. So the boy explained he had ripped some cloth from his top used it to scoop the ant hill and moved the hill further away. He then scooped the remaining ants left behind and moved them to the hill. The saint stopped the boy talking.
The saint then told the boy to sit and told the boy that a month ago he had seen a great bodily injury to occur in a week written in the palm of the boy and so the saint had sent him home to his parents thinking his parents would need him. the sain had believed it was a certain event and could happen anywhere so it made no difference being at the cave or with his parents. However on hearing the story the saint realised that the boy had changed his fate by his act of kindness. Perhaps the boy had been fated to suffer an injury which would require him to work with animals and learn important lessons. However the act of kindness had negated the need for the bodily injury.

So you see the boy’s fate was written but was just as easily unwritten. So whatever anyone tells you, a palmist, psychic whoever- remember that they are only giving you information at that single moment in time. Things can change the very next minute that what they say could be out of the date by then.

So you are not resigned to your fate. Your fate is fluid and changeable every second. So you can change your life with the secret power of lists. Understand the power of peoples words and protect yourself from what others tell you is your fate. If you take on board what people tell you and start to believe it you will cause those very things to occur in your life. It is possible that the saint in my story could have told the boy his fate that day he read his palm and the boy believing it to be so- may have decided not to waste his time with the ant hill and gone straight home. So in this case the saints words could have had the effect of the boy not doing something that as we know saved him.