Destiny
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Mahabharata: 18 Parvas
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Mbh.1.89.4901 | Destiny is supreme. |
Mbh.1.89.4903 | Knowing Destiny to be all-powerful, the wise, whatever their portions may be, should neither exult nor grieve. |
Mbh.1.89.4904 | When creatures know that their weal and woe are dependent on Destiny and not on their own exertion or power, they should neither grieve nor exult, remembering that Destiny is all powerful. |
Mbh.1.89.4906 | When Destiny is supreme, both grief and exultation are unbecoming. |
Mbh.2.17.737 | Aided by good policy, if not frustrated by Destiny, an undertaking becomes crowned with success. |
Mbh.2.58.2415 | We all are under the control of Destiny. |
Mbh.2.69.3011 | Know ye for certain that this great calamity that threatens to overtake the Bharatas hath been sent by Destiny itself. |
Mbh.2.78.3386 | Destiny is supreme, I cannot abandon them. |
Mbh.3.65.3272 | Nothing that befalleth men is due to anything else than Destiny, for even in my childhood I did not commit any such sin in thought, word, or deed, whence might come this calamity. |
Mbh.3.107.5487 | And hearing the words, the same king became senseless with wrath, and then told them all, carried away by Destiny, Go ye all, may ye never return! |
Mbh.3.110.5698 | As Destiny would have it, and as the word of the creator would not be untrue, in that same hind was born his Vibhandaka's son a mighty saint. |
Mbh.3.156.7883 | And here he saw his two brothers and the noble-minded Draupadi on the shoulders of the demon, and Sahadeva on the ground rebuking the Rakshasa and also that stupid Rakshasa himself deprived of sense by Fate, going round in different directions through bewilderment caused by Destiny. |
Mbh.3.160.8151 | These Yakshas and Rakshasas had already been slain by Destiny: thy brother hath been the instrument merely. |
Mbh.3.178.8821 | Do thou behold the dispensation of Destiny! |
Mbh.3.182.9111 | Men, O king, attain what they have in consequence of the grace of the gods of Destiny or of their own actions. |
Mbh.3.207.10707 | SECTION CCVII Markandeya continued, The pious fowler, O Yudhishthira, then said to that Brahmana, Undoubtedly my deeds are very cruel, but, O Brahmana, Destiny is all-powerful and it is difficult to evade the consequence of our past actions. |
Mbh.3.234.11871 | Indeed, how could this saying be true unless, as I think, it be that everything here is dependent on Destiny? |
Mbh.3.271.13223 | I incline to think that Time, and human Destiny that dependeth on our acts, and the Inevitable, are irresistible in respect of creatures. |
Mbh.3.306.15023 | And may, O son, that best of those that impart heat, viz, Surya, thy father, and from whom I have obtained thee as ordained by Destiny, protect thee everywhere! |
Mbh.3.306.15035 | Indeed, the excellent coat of mail and those ear-rings made of Amrita that were born with his body, as also the ordinance of Destiny, kept the child alive |
Mbh.4.20.820 | Nothing is difficult for Destiny and none can over-ride Destiny. |
Mbh.4.20.833 | That the mighty-armed and terrible bowman, Dhananjaya the son of Pritha, should now live like a fire that hath been put out, maketh me think of all this as attributable to Destiny. |
Mbh.5.8.289 | Thou shouldst not be aggrieved at this; for Destiny is all powerful in this world; and, O Yudhishthira, high-minded persons have to endure miseries of various kinds, nay, even the gods themselves, O king, have suffered misfortunes. |
Mbh.5.39.2055 | Indeed, the Creator hath made man subject to Destiny. |
Mbh.5.40.2219 | Indeed, Destiny, I think, is certain to take its course; individual exertion is futile |
Mbh.5.51.2928 | Destiny is everywhere powerful, especially in the case of a male person, for beholding the victory of the Pandavas in battle, I do not yet restrain my sons. |
Mbh.5.77.3802 | One should, hence, engage in work knowing that one's purpose would be achieved by a combination of both Destiny and Exertion. |
Mbh.5.146.6546 | Destiny is all. |
Mbh.6.59.3206 | The royal Bhishma, hearing these words, replied unto the chief of the Yadus, saying, Destiny is all powerful. |
Mbh.6.65.3517 | Everything that hath happened seemeth to be due to Destiny, O Sanjaya. |
Mbh.6.76.4030 | That so large an army, mustered according to science, and attached to us by wealth, should yet be slaughtered in battle, alas, what can it be but the result of Destiny? |
Mbh.6.84.4381 | All this, without doubt, is Destiny |
Mbh.6.104.5579 | For this reason, O tiger among men, a dreadful destruction of kinsmen is taking place, caused either by Destiny or by thy evil policy, O king |
Mbh.6.124.6894 | Destiny is incapable of being avoided by exertion. |
Mbh.6.124.6909 | Who was there that would venture to overcome Destiny by exertion? |
Mbh.7.9.309 | Destiny I regard to be all powerful, exertion is fruitless. |
Mbh.7.11.438 | The foolish Duryodhana, who doth not know Krishna or Kesava, seems, through Destiny, to have Death's noose before him. |
Mbh.7.11.454 | Things calculated in one way, O son, even by men of intelligence, become otherwise through Destiny. |
Mbh.7.111.5358 | What can it, therefore, be but Destiny that even such an army should be slain? |
Mbh.7.111.5380 | What can it be but Destiny? |
Mbh.7.118.5745 | O Suta, I think, Destiny is now unpropitious to my sons, since so many mighty car-warriors have been slain by that one warrior of the Satwata race, Alas, O Sanjaya, my army is no match for even one warrior, viz, Yuyudhana inflamed with wrath. |
Mbh.7.132.6563 | SECTION CXXXIV Dhritarashtra said, I think, Destiny is supreme. |
Mbh.7.155.8314 | When a person mentally resolves to bear a burden, Destiny itself aids him in the execution. |
Mbh.8.2.51 | He that is wise never feeleth any pain at what Destiny bringeth! |
Mbh.8.2.52 | And since Destiny is unconquerable, human purposes may or may not become attainable. |
Mbh.8.2.55 | I regard all this to be the result of Destiny! |
Mbh.8.31.1365 | Without doubt, Destiny is supreme. |
Mbh.8.31.1373 | Destiny, indeed, is supreme' |
Mbh.8.92.5896 | Destiny, however, has certainly flowed, controlled by Partha. |
Mbh.8.92.5897 | It is for this that Destiny is protecting the Pandavas and weakening us. |
Mbh.8.92.5901 | This is Destiny. |
Mbh.9.22.1499 | Behold the course of Destiny! |
Mbh.9.27.1910 | Through the influence of Destiny, only I have been saved! |
Mbh.9.27.1938 | Thou, O son, are now in every way the sole staff of the blind monarch, bereft of foresight, afflicted with calamity, struck by Destiny, and who, though repeatedly dissuaded, could not abstain from pursuing his evil policy. |
Mbh.9.54.3861 | What can it be but Destiny? |
Mbh.9.57.4152 | I think all this to be the work of irresistible Destiny. |
Mbh.9.61.4439 | Indeed, Destiny is supreme! |
Mbh.9.63.4585 | Destiny, however, is incapable of being frustrated |
Mbh.10.2.97 | All men are subjected to and governed by these two forces, Destiny and Exertion. |
Mbh.10.2.109 | Sometimes, Destiny, having settled a course of events, acts of itself without waiting for exertion. |
Mbh.10.8.540 | Afflicted before by Destiny, they were now smitten by Drona's son who terrified them all with the frightful roars uttered by him. |
Mbh.10.8.541 | Afflicted by Destiny, the brave warriors of the Pandava camp, recollecting the sight they had seen in their dreams, identified it with what they now witnessed. |
Mbh.11.1.30 | This destruction of all my kinsmen, this extermination of all my well-wishers and friends, at this old age, has come upon me through the force of Destiny. |
Mbh.11.8.334 | It is my opinion that the course marked out by Destiny cannot be controlled by anyone, even if one struggles for eternity. |
Mbh.11.8.352 | Through the influence of Destiny his brothers also became like him. |
Mbh.12.16.720 | It seems that Destiny is all-powerful. |
Mbh.12.22.951 | Destiny, O tiger among kings, is incapable of being resisted |
Mbh.12.27.1239 | All this is Destiny, O puissant one! |
Mbh.12.28.1280 | The absence, of what is agreeable, the presence of what is disagreeable, good and evil, bliss and woe, follow Destiny. |
Mbh.12.28.1288 | High birth, health, beauty, prosperity, and objects of enjoyment, are all won through Destiny. |
Mbh.12.28.1291 | Wonderful is the course of Destiny. |
Mbh.12.28.1292 | The evils caused by disease, fire, water, weapons, hunger, poison, fever, and death, and falls from high places, overtake a man according to the Destiny under which he is born. |
Mbh.12.32.1713 | If, again, Destiny be the result of the acts of former lives, then no sin can attach to one in this life even as the sin of cutting down a tree cannot touch the maker of the axe |
Mbh.12.49.2595 | It was ordained of yore by Destiny, O amiable one! |
Mbh.12.103.5837 | Destiny should be regarded as all powerful. |
Mbh.12.104.5928 | Do not applaud Exertion in the presence of thy foe but speak highly of Destiny. |
Mbh.12.138.8194 | Destiny and Exertion exist, depending upon each other. |
Mbh.12.138.8195 | They that are of high souls achieve good and great feats, while eunuchs only pay court to Destiny. |
Mbh.12.175.10528 | If he could ascribe either of them to the action of Destiny, he would not then feel glad when happiness came or miserable when sorrow overtook him. |
Mbh.12.176.10587 | This is only the result of Destiny. |
Mbh.12.176.10589 | Or, if the existence of anything like Exertion as an agent in the production of results be admitted, a deeper search would discover Destiny to be at the bottom |
Mbh.12.179.10844 | They seek to change such professions for other pursuits that are more dignified but then they are bound by their own acts of a previous life and by the force of Destiny. |
Mbh.12.194.11704 | The felicity that he feels who has succeeded in controlling his mind and senses is such that its like can never be obtained through Exertion or Destiny |
Mbh.12.231.14375 | Some learned persons say that Destiny is supreme, and some that it is Nature which is the agent. |
Mbh.12.231.14376 | Others say that Acts flowing from personal exertion, and Destiny, produce effects, aided by Nature. |
Mbh.13.1.21 | Bhishma replied, Why, O fortunate one, dost thou consider thy soul, which is dependent on God and Destiny and Time to be the cause of thy actions? |
Mbh.13.6.372 | SECTION VI Yudhishthira said, Tell me, O learned sire that art versed in all the scriptures, of Exertion and Destiny which is the most powerful' |
Mbh.13.6.374 | In olden times the adorable Vasishtha enquired of Brahma as to which among these two, viz, the Karma of a creature acquired in this life, or that acquired in previous lives and called Destiny, is the more potent in shaping his life. |
Mbh.13.6.381 | As, unsown with seed, the soil, though tilled, becomes fruitless, so, without individual Exertion, Destiny is of no avail. |
Mbh.13.6.382 | One's own acts are like the soil, and Destiny or the sum of one's acts in previous births is compared to the seed. |
Mbh.13.6.387 | Everything can be secured by Exertion: but nothing can be gained through Destiny alone, by a man that is wanting in personal Exertion. |
Mbh.13.6.396 | If one's Karma bore no fruit, then all actions would become fruitless, and relying on Destiny men would become idlers. |
Mbh.13.6.397 | He who, without pursuing the human modes of action, follows Destiny only, acts in vain, like unto the woman that has an impotent husband. |
Mbh.13.6.398 | In this world the apprehension that accrues from performance of good or evil actions is not so great if Destiny be unfavourable as one's apprehension of the same in the other world if Exertion be wanting while here |
Mbh.13.6.399 | Man's powers, if properly exerted, only follow his Destiny, but Destiny alone is incapable of conferring any good where Exertion is wanting. |
Mbh.13.6.402 | There is a constant rivalry between the deities and the Rishis, and if they all have to go through their Karma, still it can never be averted that there is no such thing as Destiny, for it is the latter that initiates all Karma. |
Mbh.13.6.403 | How does Karma originate, if Destiny form the prime spring of human action? |
Mbh.13.6.409 | Destiny thwarts not the man that has attained to virtue and righteousness. |
Mbh.13.6.424 | Destiny does not help the man that is steeped in spiritual ignorance and avarice. |
Mbh.13.6.425 | Even as a fire of small proportions, when fanned by the wind, becomes of mighty power, so does Destiny, when joined with individual Exertion, increase greatly in potentiality. |
Mbh.13.6.426 | As with the diminution of oil in the lamp its light is extinguished so does the influence of Destiny is lost if one's acts stop. |
Mbh.13.6.429 | The man that does not exert himself is never contented in this world nor can Destiny alter the course of a man that has gone wrong. |
Mbh.13.6.430 | So there is no authority inherent in Destiny. |
Mbh.13.6.431 | As the pupil follows one's own individual perception, so the Destiny follows Exertion. |
Mbh.13.6.432 | The affairs in which one's own Exertion is put forth, there only Destiny shows its hand. |
Mbh.13.6.434 | By the influence of Destiny, and by putting forth individual Exertion, do men attain to heaven. |
Mbh.13.6.435 | The combined aid of Destiny and Exertion, becomes efficacious |
Mbh.13.12.804 | Thus afflicted by Destiny, I am indulging in grief. |
Mbh.13.29.3789 | Without doubt, Destiny is incapable of being warded off or conquered by individual exertion, since, O lord, I am unable to acquire, notwithstanding these persistent efforts of mine, the object, upon the acquisition of which I have set my heart. |
Mbh.13.56.5605 | Through an irresistible decree of Destiny, the Kshatriyas and the Bhargavas will fall out. |
Mbh.13.56.5614 | The whole science of arms, O sinless one, in its embodied form will come to him, for the extermination of the entire Kshatriya race, through a decree of Destiny. |
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice. |
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