Fate: Energies of the Hidden Past Working in the Present
Hard fate is the name given to that unseen force which brings
unpleasant experiences and tests one's patience, and in which the man
concerned is inclined to believe that he deserved much better fate than
he obtained. There is no such thing as accident or chance or fate or
luck in life excepting the results of one's own previous actions
which have all these appellations.
Every thought, desire, imagination, sentiment causes reaction. Virtue
brings its own reward; vice brings its own punishment. This is the
working of the law of reaction. God neither punishes the wicked nor
rewards the virtuous. It is their own Karmas that bring reward and punishment.
-Swami Sivananda
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