| 14 April, 2018 – Discourse on God’s will |


Fate vs Faith

What is belief? Your belief can change your fate too, provided you have a strong belief.  When you ask God something, you think you have asked God. When you ask you mother something, you mother gives it to you. Like when you ask you mother to make/cook something for you, your mother does not say – I will not make it, you can make it yourself. Your mother will make it for you, give it to you.

But what is Fate? Fate says I will not make it, you can make it yourself. But the love you have for your mother and the love your mother has for you, the belief that you have in your mother, that belief does not come before fate. Faith is beyond fate. Faith has such great strength, it can bring Bhagawan out of a pillar(Prahalad story). Faith can change the story, ponder about this.

Fate can be changed but before it can be changed, and before you believe in someone else, you need to believe in yourself. When you believe in yourself that this situation/thing can be changed, and you start searching for the path of change, then Fate takes a back seat and Faith drives you forward.

Question: We ask/pray to Swami for something and Swami gives it to us but He has something else in mind for me, so would this path have more difficulties? For eg. Swami wants me to be an Engineer but I have no interest in Engineering and I want to be a Doctor only and I pray to Swami and Swami answers my prayers and I become a Doctor, would this ‘Doctor’ path throw me more difficulties because it was something different from what Swami wanted?

Babaji’s answer: Whatever Swami has decided, you will only get that. ..