00:00Swami Vivekanand Ji has said that you are the creator of your own destiny.
00:03Many times we plan something thinking that I want to create my destiny.
00:07But when the results are not according to what we started with,
00:12how do we figure out where things went wrong?
00:15Destiny is not about becoming a CEO.
00:17Destiny is not about earning that kind of money or clearing an entrance exam
00:21or reaching a particular post or winning an election.
00:25That's not destiny.
00:26That's how popular culture presents it.
00:30That's not how Swamiji thought of it.
00:33Swami Vivekanand came from Vedanta.
00:35In Vedanta, destiny is niyati, which simply means mukte, liberation.
00:40That alone is destiny.
00:41When he said that you decide your destiny,
00:44he simply meant that liberation must be your choice.
00:48And as a result of your choice alone, are you liberated?
00:53Amen.
