Sastra says don't try to change your karma-phala
Destiny is very strong. Karmana daiva-netrena jantur deha upapattaye [SB 3.31.1]. Therefore sastra says that you try for that thing which was not possible in many other lives. In each life everyone gets father, mother, son, and the father's duty to son, son, that is going on. When you take birth as demigod-Indra, Candra, Varuna -- or as human being or as animal the care-taking business is there. Even the small ant during rainy season, when there is so much flood, they take the eggs on the head -- you have seen the red ant? -- and finding out some place. The care-taking is there. Even the birds, a sparrow. So when their, the season for laying down eggs, they bring some straws, and keep like that to make a nest for taking care of the eggs. So this taking care by the father and mother, beginning from the ant up to the Indra, Candra devas, that is there.
Indra, there is indragopam, one very small insect. It is also called indra, indragopam, insect. And another Indra is the King of heaven. So sastra says from this Indra to that indra, everyone is bound up by his karma. It includes all others, from this indra to that Indra. Karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam [Bs. 5.54]. Everyone is bound up by the resultant action of his karma. It cannot be changed. So sastra says don't try to change your karma-phala. Better utilize that energy for becoming advanced in Krsna consciousness. Because you cannot change the destiny. That is not possible.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- February 6, 1974, Vrndavana
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