How do  people of the Hindu faith view fate? need direct quote from (famous) person pls?
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Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.\nNone else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny.\n\nSWAMI VIVEKANANDA
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None. i'm an atheist. And I don't know what my destiny is because i don't believe that you can tell the future and you never know what's going to happen tomorrow (or in a year). respect is important. But it doesn't make it beautiful.
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Heaven and hell exist... the whole story!\n\n\nEvery Atman soul manifests a body ... On its journey towards Emancipation! If it were a plant it would do all within its means to become an animal (in next Life) ... the next higher of the species but would it swoop low (owing to bad Karma), it could regain the body of an insect or even an Amoebae in its next manifested Life. Who knows when ... the sword may fall! We pray and do Punya Karma (pious deeds not only in the physical frame but mentally also) ... We elevate ourselves to the higher planes of cosmic consciousness ... we inherit Paap Karma ... We are doomed to go to Hell ...\n\nYou are born a Human Being. You live a Life of content. One day hell breaks loose ... You fail to control your emotions and cause hurt to your fellow beings ... Earn Paap Karma. Ultimately hurtled into the dungeons of Hell in your next birth ... You are born a crawling insect to be trampled by one and all. What apathy .. nothing within your control you shall again have to take the cast of a Human body before you can atone for your sins and ask god for his Forgiveness!!\n\nEvery ‘Atman’ manifests initially on a Life supporting planet and then goes on Spiritually elevating itself to higher and higher planes. You go to ‘Swarg’ owing to your Punya Karma and ‘Narak’ owing to your Paap Karma. God never differentiates ... For him all are equal.\n\n\nBefore an Atman is allotted another body, it has merely to wait ... Where? Where else other than Swarga or Naraka depending upon the balance sheet of your previous Life! There is no waiting in Hell! So many species of insects plants and animals!\n\nWaiting for a proper birth is essential ... For the family in which you have to take birth may not yet exist. The complex theory of genes and chromosomes is to be understood well. The balance sheet of you and your would be parents must match ... Then only you inherit the womb of that Mother. Your Mother may be a she animal or a woman ... Is solely dependent on the balance Karma of your previous Life.\n\n‘Swarg’ is no where else but it is a X-dimension where only Atmans operate. We do not see an Atman or God but still we feel their presence ... Where? The travel of Atman is not limited by time or space. They travel on frequencies above the speed of light i.e. above 1,86,000 miles per sec. All thought waves without exception travel on frequencies above the speed of light. Traveling on different waves lengths in the X-dimension (i.e. speeds above 1,86,000 miles per sec) can one Atman meet another.\n\n\nEvery Human Being who has learnt to control his senses, can elevate his mental status to levels that he can seek blessings of one and all whom we consider as dead and liberated i.e. God realized! All purified Atmans are practically known as Human Gods like Mahavira, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed of the earlier Ages and Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Ramanna Mahirshi of the recent ages reside in the X-dimension known to us as ‘Baikunth (abode of God). These purified Atmans are ever ready to bless us if we sincerely and with full devotion (i.e. through mantras) invoke their presence and blessings. Proper use of Mantras is essential for their invocation.\n\nIn ‘Hell’ which is nowhere else but exists on this planet itself can be found those poor Souls whose misdeeds landed them in Hell. You slowly through the evolutionary process elevated yourself to the level of a Human Being. Your works as a Human Being did not conform to the standards laid down by the scriptures! You failed yourself at all levels of Morality and Ethics. On the Earthly plane, the society may not spurn your advances, neither you may be ridiculed and pitied upon for you are the lord of great wealth and riches and none wants to face your wrath! More on god here- http://www.godrealized.org/swarga_naraka_and_dharti.html
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Fate is not a Christian teaching. God does have a plan and a way God would like us to choose and give instructions in the Bible and through sermons and religious study but God does not force us to make any decission and does not impose God's will on us. We are the master of our own destiny but with God and following God's direction we can achieve great and wounderous things and have God's assistance in doing so. If we choose another way we loose God's help and God may try to steer us in a different direction especially if the road we are on is truly dangerous. Even then we choose to follow the path we are on or change course.\n\nIt is all our choice.
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That depends.  In this scenario, is the future set in stone (aka fate) or do we have a role in what happens in the future?
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God, fate or destiny...Something is in store for each of us! Everyone matters...\n\nThere is a Chinese saying, "Heaven does not make useless people"...
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Fate is determined by the accumulated result of one's deeds and misdeeds with intent to harm other living beings in violations of the principles of Truth in one life time. That is carried over to the next life which, in a way , justifies rebirth in Hindu way of faith. Hence, fate is predetermined so far as this life is concerned.
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That depends on whether you believe fate to be a human construct; a personified entity used as a tool to explain and justify circumstances which effect the human condition. Getting philosophical here, if you do perceive this to be the case, does this make it "real" as it would then exist within your own perception of reality? Just a thought.
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Hindu Beliefs\nThe beliefs of hindu thought are wide and varied, and have been expounded upon by saints and writers throughout the centuries. Some of the salient elements of hindu beliefs are presented below (from an article in Hinduism Today, April 1993). The two articles Duty to masses and Why we differ, also provide tremendous insights into hindu beliefs. Enjoy! \nOn Creation: \nThe universe exists in endless cycles of creation, preservation and destruction. There is no absolute end to the world. \nOn The True God: \nThere is but one true and absolute Self, Supreme Being. God is pure Love. \nOn Paths to God: \nMan is free to choose his form of worship, for all paths lead ultimately to God. Sin is only of the mind; Soul is pure. \nOn Man's Plight: \nMan's suffering is but his soul's immaturity. He is on a progressive path which leads from ignorance to knowledge, from death to immortality. \nOn Evil: \nThere is no intrinsic evil. All is good. All is God. \nOn Virtue and Salvation: \nVirtuous conduct and light belief are the foundation of religious life. Liberation requires knowledge and personal attainment. \nOn Doctrines: \nDoctrines tend to be subtle, complex and even paradoxical. Freedom to worship and to believe in a variety of ways is predominant. \nOn Enlightenment: \nThe goals of enlightenment and liberation are to be found in this life, within man himself. \nOn Sainthood: \nThe path to saintliness is through self-discipline, purification, concentration, and contemplation. Value is placed on ascetic ideals, individual sadhana, and yoga. \nOn Worship: \nWorship is individualistic, highly ritualistic and meditative, centering around the temple and home shrine all days of the week
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That's a bit more complicated than you think to answer. The basic beliefs are that there is one Divinity (God) from which everything in the universe manifested. Everything! That the soul reincarnates over and over again until it reaches moksha. Moksha is the liberation from samsara and union with God. Samsara is the cycle of birth, death, birth, death, birth, death, etc. Karma (Sanskrit word that means "action") is also a belief. Karma is the fuel for samsara. The Law of Karma is basically a lot like the Law of Cause and Effect in science. Every action (physical, word, or thought) produces effects that cause other actions that eventually have an effect on you. Hindus believe that there is a heaven, but that it is temporary. That it is projected by your consciousness, Eventually your desires and karma cause you to incarnate again in another body. While the entire universe manifested from God (thus it's true inner nature is also divine) God also still pervades the universe as well. God is then both formless and multiform; nameless and all names. Hindus believe that you can call God by whatever name you desire and you can use whatever symbols/forms you desire to help you to pray to God and worship God. \n"There is only one God, though humanity calls It by many names." Rig Veda 1:164.46\n\nSome great websites about Hinduism that I, as a Hindu, recommend are:\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/religion\nhttp://www.hindukids.org\nhttp://www.hindunet.com\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org\nhttp://www.himalayanacademy.org\n\nSome great books about Hinduism are\n"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Hinduism"\n"Windows Into The Infinite : A Guide To Hindu Sacred Texts"\n"Am I A Hindu?"\n"Paths To God : Living The Bhagavad Gita"\n\nHope this helps
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“In India, in particular, a symbolic image represents one or another of the ‘divine attributes’, which is called pratika, for it is neither an ‘idol’, nor does it take on any qualities from that thing which it really is, an aid to meditation and a supplementary means toward realization".\n                   -René Guénon (1886-1951)\n\nHuston Smith has said: " It is obtuse to confuse Hinduism’s images with idolatry, and their multiplicity with polytheism. They are 'runways' from which the sense-laden human spirit can rise for its "flight of the alone to the Alone". Even village priest will frequently open their temple ceremonies with the following beloved invocation:\n\n   O Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations:\n   Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here;\n   Thou art without form, but I worship you in these forms;\n   Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations,\n   Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations.    \n\n(source: The World's Religions - By Huston Smith p. 34).\n\nDiane L. Eck observes: "Hinduism is an imaginative, an "image-making, religious tradition in which the sacred is seen   as present in the visible world – the world we see in multiple images and deities, in sacred  places, and in people. The notion of darsan call attention as students of Hinduism, to the fact that India is a visual and visionary culture. God is eminently visible, although human beings have not always had the refinement of sight to see. Furthermore, the divine is visible not only in temple and shrine, bit also in the whole continuum of life – in nature, in people, in birth and growth and death.\n\nIts all together wrong to think that the images are idols as though the statue itself is being worshipped – they are reminders that the God who dwells in the depth of our souls. Wherever an alter is raised, there is the center of the universe. The world’s axis passes through it, yet no visible alter is no more than a symbol for the one time alter – the human heart and to say the cosmic axis pierces it is to say that it is in direct touch with the infinite. \n\n\nBy the way on what basis western religions including Islam believes god made man in it own image? hinduism declares god has no form so he is every form. but they seem to think god looks like humans .\n\nAdded:\n\n someone  below is trying to convert you now thats funny. \n\njust wanted to tell him i find that story of moses plus other stories too primitive. ya ya heard about him. the man who claimed god gave him messeges. i wonder why god was so shy that he talked to moses only. Why did god not address everybody.  why idolise  dead persons and indulge in social idolatery when you claim to be agaist idols..
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Yes, I understand what you are saying. Keep your faith and listen to your heart. No-one on Earth can predict the future, we are in God's hands.
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If you truely believe that is your fate then you will make it your fate.  You have to be proactive and optimistic to actually do something.  There's more wrong people out there for you than there is right and you just have to wait.  Beauty and truth can only be found when your NOT looking for them.
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Looking at past events, it is easy to chalk up coincedences as fate.  But looking forward, nothing is written.  You get to decide your fate.\n\nLove,\nme
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BOB:I EDITED IT. I'M LOGGING OUT. TYPE YOUR QUESTIONS. I'LL TRY TO EXPLAIN THEM LATER.\n\nHey "Bob". Now, you need to know that the Koran is poetic. God also said that he kept the planets not colliding with each other. But we know that it is caused by gravity.\n\nGod also said that He is closer to us than the jugular vein. There is a hadith that said that He can ve contained in a pious slave's heart. Now all these references are poetic.\n\nThere are other translations, such as Pickthall's, that translated the word into "heavens".\n \nAccording to Yusuf Ali's translation, it is referred as "rain".\n\nMaybe, just maybe, that He was referring to comets and meteors. Maybe He said "the sky" because 1400 years ago, Arabs didn't know about comets and meteors. The verse also states that it can fall by His leave, His power, it can fall. There are records that meteors have hit the earth. But this is just my opinion.\n\nEDIT: Punishment for satan is in hell. Those verses are talking about the punishments waiting for satan in hell. The words did not say comets, but FIRE.\n\nBesides, you haven't stated your thoughts on the other translations by Pickthall or Yusuf Ali.\n\nEDIT:Oh, wait. I remembered your point of "air falling on earth" thing. Now, as you read it, you do realise that the verse states:\n\n....and the ships that sail through the sea by His Command?...\n\nIf there was a storm or strong wind, rain, etc (the sky falling, as if there was heavy winds, as described poeticly),surely the ship's sailing was to be affected and face possibility of shipwreck?
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"Look at the dream visions of hell and chaos that appear in your subjective world. Look at the news today, buy a magazine today, and you will see a picture of the world in chaos, a world in which the Divine is not the universally acknowledged Principle of existence. Clearly, our world is not being transformed into a pattern of Divine laws! The men who function as leaders in the world today do not know how to Enlighten anybody. None of them is Awake as the Divine Conscious Being. None is an Enlightened man. Our world must be transformed into a culture in which every individual being is aligned to God and, therefore, likewise all the functions of human beings, including world order and politics. The Law of Divine Association must be fulfilled first, and than all the laws of action, cause and effect, association, or relationship may be ordered on the basis of that Divine Association.\n\nBut where is the Divine Being, apart from the beings somehow acknowledged in our religious sentiment? Where is the Spiritual Master who can liberate us from the words, the language, the traditions, the memories, the chaos of piecemeal religion? The Bhagavad Gita says that "whenever the paths of life are corrupt, and whenever the Law of Association with God has been forgotten, I come." The Divine Consciousness appears in the form of the Spiritual Master who accomplishes the righteous realignment of the Earth and all humanity with God.\n\nMy birth and the creation of this Communion are instruments of this same process, which has also been generated in times past. The Divine is always doing this kind of work in all the moments of history. The Revelation of God to Man is a process that goes on and on and on. Ultimately, you see, its function is to realign the entire world of Man to God, but the process will not come to an end just because some sort of sacred order has been established on Earth. Everything that exists in all the universes is being brought into alignment with God. The transforming process is a struggle, and until it is ultimately accomplished, the experience of beings is chaotic. Men and women may come to the point of yearning for the Divine Principle, but until the Divine Principle is fully established everywhere, we will not see an order of life based on the salvation of all beings.\n\nEvery human being must be made sensitive to the chaos in which he or she is living at the present time. People are tormented and confused, and most people can acknowledge the confusion of their lives. To such people, who are therefore sensitive to the quality of ordinary experience, the message of the Way that I Teach, the message of this Communion, is salvatory and liberating. But people who have not also coincidentally been made sensitive to the hellish chaos of egoic experience cannot respond to the saving message of this Teaching. We cannot just go into the world with a smiling, middle-class message that you can be consoled by mere belief. Our Communion must establish in people a feeling that the usual life is suffering. On the basis of that realization, men and women can respond to what is liberating."
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I believe in cause and effect, but I don't belive in "Karma," which is a religious belief originating in both Buddhist and Hindu thought and now popularized by "New Age" thought. \n\nYes, I believe it's more than obvious that how one behaves towards others in this life effects how one will be treated and regarded, but, no, I don't believe in Karma from past lives, nor Karma transferring mystically from unrelated situations either ~ not really.  \n\nI've given it a lot of thought over the years, I used to believe in it, but I no longer think it's a helpful, intelligent, or compassionate belief  ~ Karma says that everything that happens to you is the result of ethics-based decisions, and I don't think that's true. Examples~  If a five year old child gets hit by a car it's not because she has made an unethical decision, or was bad in this life or a previous life. If someone becomes ill it's often not because of an unethical decsion, it's often due to genetics (again, for a vivid example take young children with cancer). The Tsunami was not caused by "Karma" \n\nTo apply the principle to oneself, I believe, is somewhat less harmful, absurd, and arrogant than applying it to others. Seldom is one wise enough to really comment on why something bad happens to someone else, yet in the name of "Karma" people do this all the time. Example, if someone who "believes in Karma" dislikes someone, and/or it's their *personal, subjective* opinion that they are a bad person, then if something bad happens to that person it's said to be  their "Karma" ~ a potentially very abusive system of thought in my opinion. \n\nI met and spent some time with with a young woman who's family is Shri Lankan, and Buddhist, and every third sentence out of her mouth was about "Karma," including declarations such as that her mother was "unattractive" and it was because of her mother's "Karma" , that tall men are tall becuase they have better "Karma," that she is pretty because she has good "Karma" It was disturbing and kind of disgusting (hopefully that thinking was an Americanized bastardization of the way the typical Buddhist in Shri Lanka thinks) \n\nEven if one applies the principle only to oneself it doesn't really seem right to me ~ If something bad happens to me it's obviously not necessarily always because I did something bad, something perhaps totally unrelated to the bad the befalls me. If I treat other people badly that will likely, though not always, have a bad result for me. Yes, I do believe that, and , as importantly, it will do harm to the other person. But that isn't "Karma," it's "simple" cause and effect occuring in social and personal relationships. \n\nThere are good reasons to do good things without believing in "Karma."