A practitioner asks: “Fate often represents a fixed outcome; destiny is a sense of purpose that individuals actively work towards, influencing their choices and actions. To what degree is karma deterministic and the outcomes inevitable? For example, if someone has lung disease, and that has been created by the Law of Karma to rebalance wounds done to us by others in other lives, what is the difference karmically between passive acceptance of that illness in this lifetime as a rebalancing (fate) versus seeking the best medical and spiritual treatment for the condition (destiny)?” What is Creator’s perspective?

We are on record as saying that karma will out. This means just what it says, that despite any human manipulation or contrivance to thwart its intervention in your life or the symptoms it may produce in causing illness, emotional distress, or difficult life circumstances, to devise a workaround can backfire because karma is more powerful. We have described previously that, in fact, sometimes blocking the symptoms of an illness that has a karmic origin, as most do, can even cause a completely different illness to replace it as a source of distress and suffering, and that second illness and consequences of it could be even worse. So what might have been a chronic illness that could be lived with might become one that ends up being fatal. We do not want to overstress this, and so raise fear that it causes harm unduly, but it is important to realize this is simply a vivid and practical demonstration of why arranging karmic repair, through divine healing, needs to be the highest of priorities rather than relying on human therapists and physicians to deal with your problems, solely. When you add divine intervention into the mix, it is much safer to use human practitioners and technology for symptom relief because you are also truly taking care of business, in getting some divine help for your underlying karma, which psychologists and physicians simply do not do and at times will make things worse.