QUESTION: Masters, what is destiny? I feel so confused most of the time about my purpose in this world. How I can keep myself happy and motivated? Please help clarify! ~Parthasarathy, India
ANSWER: Destiny is a concept that only has importance to those people within the physical realm who believe they have no freedom of choice. To accept you have a specific destiny, you say that everything about your life is predestined (predetermined or decided), and it will happen as it has been written (by whom they never say), and you can’t do a thing about it.
Many societies, nationalities, and religious organizations have a belief system that accepts the determination of a destiny. Controlling bodies would like all people to think that they are destined to do this or that, and then the organization comes in and moderates what the path of destiny consists of and how they can help with the decided tasks. This generally accomplishes whatever the group wishes to see done. Accept and believe you have the freedom of choice to determine everything in your life and you will always decide your own fate.
Many times we have spoken on the purpose of each soul. It is to come to Earth with various lessons it wishes to understand. In learning its lessons the soul may then truly know its own nature. The nature of the soul is unconditional love. To be happy and motivated, work toward always feeling love. Accept everything about yourself at every stage of your life, even the things you don’t understand or like. Those things signal to you what to work on to feel your love.