OUR DESTINY LIES IN OUR HANDS! (PART IV)

DO THE STARS INFLUENCE HUMAN AFFAIRS?

In a line from Julius Caesar a play written by William Shakespeare, Cassius says to Brutus: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…”

The quotation above agrees with our topic which says that our destiny lies in our hands. Yet, astrologers tell us that the stars have an influence on our lives. How can these be reconciled?

While some live in fear of what the stars portend, many seek guidance by studying astrological predictions on a daily basis. To be added here are millions who take the easy-going road and dismiss astrology altogether calling it a ruse and non-existent!

In reality, what certainly determines how a man fares is how he exercises his free will, what he draws to himself from out of the Universe and above all, how he makes use of the Power of God which always streams through Creation and naturally also through man. Through his voluntary decisions he can use this power to form his “works”. These works form man’s fate for good or bad depending on how he has put this power to use.

Even when such works of man are invisible, they exist and are active in the world not visible to us. Therefore, in language we use verbs for the activity of these works for example when we say a thought strikes us, courage rises in us, or that we are tormented by some craving.

Just like us, our works emit radiations and this very fact offers the connecting link between man’s work, his fate and the radiations of the stars for the stars too radiate. The radiations of the stars form channels through which the harvest of what we have sown through our thoughts words and deeds come back to us.

Figuratively speaking, it can be said that the stars give the signal for the times when the returning harvest of previous actions flow to the human being in a more complete and concentrated form.

When the radiations of the stars are unfavourable a person also receives waiting unfavourable reciprocal actions and with favourable radiations he will experience favourable reciprocal actions all based on his earlier works. If, owing to the condition of his soul, a human being is surrounded by many dark influences, nothing good can reach him even in times of favourable stellar radiations. In this case, the channel of the favourable radiations remains empty because there are no good reactions available which can pass through such a favourable channel to the person concerned. At such periods of the favourable radiations however, the person sorely hit by evil reactions will at least have a period of respite which he can use to gather strength for endurance and also to reconsider his ways.

If on the other hand the condition of a person’s soul permits only purity and light to surround him, then the most unfavourable stellar radiations will not be able to cause serious harm. So, the stars on their own do not determine how we fare. We remain responsible fully for what eventually flows to us at the signal of the stars!

In Part V we will grapple with the question: CAN DESTINY BE CHANGED?