Your wishes are not granted so that you may be granted your destiny || Acharya Prashant (2016)

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Question: Are we born with destiny or choices? Why don’t things happen as per our wish?

Acharya Prashant: Is it not a great mercy that things don’t happen as per our wish? Do you really want existence to punish you by granting all your wishes?

Your wishes are not granted so that you may be granted your destiny.Your destiny is realization; your destiny is Truth.

If you start living in your wishes, your desires, then how will you come to the Truth? Because, directly, you never wish for the Truth. You never desire Truth.If I circulate a sheet amongst us and say, “Write down your top ten priorities in life.” How many of us would write ‘Truth’? Okay, this is a so-called ‘spiritual occasion’. So, some of us may indeed write, keeping in mind the decorum of the place. But on any normal day, if you are asked your ten priorities in life, how many of you would say, ‘Liberation!’?

In fact, even right now, the lady, my friend, is asked of her top-most priority, she will say, “Getting rid of the spider!” Where is the Truth? Where is the Truth? So it is great that our desires remain unfulfilled—That helps us reach our destiny. *When your desires remain unfulfilled, you see that un-fulfillment is the nature of desires.