Spiritual teacher Kamlesh Patel, popularly known as Daaji, addresses key issues related to destiny and how it shapes one's life in his new book.
In "Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way", the author provides practical wisdom on how to use heartfulness practices to refine lifestyle and design destiny, including destiny in the afterlife.
He elaborates on the subject of consciousness, the role of evolution, and explains what happens to people at the time of birth and death - and how people can act in those pivotal moments when life takes a turn.
In the book, brought out by Westland Publications, Daaji shares how beliefs determine the relative importance of fate and free will in people's lives. He also shares a set of simple heartfulness practices and lifestyle changes that can help people design their destiny.
As Daaji says, "We have tremendous freedom to design our destiny. If destiny were fixed, why would we work? Why would young people study, as the knowledge would come anyway if it is in their destiny? If someone is supposed to become the prime minister, do they need to campaign before an election?
"All these activities would be redundant... Destiny is a very complex thing. Some part of it is fixed, just like our genetic expression. We have a fixed genome - nothing can be done about it. But there is an epigenome, which can be changed because it is susceptible to outer circumstances..."
"We are not only designing our own individual destiny, we are also evolving together as a species and in communities. This is known as co-evolution. This can only happen when we first evolve as individuals."