Is there fate?

Question

Are we responsible for our present condition?
If there is happiness is it not because of our past good actions?
In case there is apathy it is hard to accept it comes from us.
Some times in distress the chain of events seem phantasmagoric
and we believe it is fate.

Answer 1

Yes we are very much responsible for our present condition happy or miserable.

Not only that one suffers in this janma(birth) because of one's bad karma in the previous birth, but also enjoys because of one's good karma in the previous birth.

That is the reason why somebody is born with diseases, poverty, foolish etc... and suffers because of that.

That is the reason why somebody is born with good health, richness intelligence etc... and is happy because of that.

It is the misconception people have that God puts one in that condition. We ourself are responsible for that. The all merciful Lord who is compassionate would be showing partiality to put somebody in misery while somebody is enjoying life happily.

All these are truth and are not any Hindu opinion.
"I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end."
-Sir William Jones

Just consider following explanation from the book, "Nectar of Devotion", by Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON founder.
Sinful activities are of two kinds: those which are mature and those which are not mature. The sinful activities for which we are suffering at the present moment are called mature. The many sinful activities stored within us for which we have not yet suffered are considered immature. For example, a man may have committed criminal acts, but not yet been arrested for them. Now, as soon as he is detected, arrest is awaiting him. Similarly, for some of our sinful activities we are awaiting distresses in the future, and for others, which are mature, we are suffering at the present moment.
In this way there is a chain of sinful activities and their concomitant distresses, and the conditioned soul is suffering life after life due to these sins. He is suffering in the present life the results of sinful activities from his past life, and he is meanwhile creating further sufferings for his future life. Mature sinful activities are exhibited if one is suffering from some chronic disease, if one is suffering from some legal implication, if one is born in a low and degraded family or if one is uneducated or very ugly.
There are many results of past sinful activities for which we are suffering at the present moment, and we may be suffering in the future due to our present sinful activities.

Answer 2

If only it was such an absolute as Ghost Wolf suggests, unfortunelty thats not the case. Bad things happen to good people too, People are perscecuted for doing the right thing all the time.

Answer 3

I say we are responsible for our own happiness
We make our lives and we have to except what we choose
Self Responsibility
We choose to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes or take drug it is our own self that has changed our fate

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 4

Election or predestination is taught in the Bible but not all people are elected by God for a purpose. For God to predestinate is for him to decree or preordain the circumstances and destiny of people according to his will (Romans 8,29-30; Ephesians 1,11), a particular aspect of the general providence of God.
For God to elect is for him to choose for salvation and/or service a people or a person. The choice is not based on merit but on God's free, sovereign love.
Have a blessed day!

Answer 5

There's fate. If you're lazy and leave it up to fate, you're doomed to have a bad life. If you push fate aside and make your own life, then you're going to have a good life.

Fate=the bad things that happen to lazy people

Answer 6

we are 100% responsible for our future,
i believe that we make our own destiny,
xxx

Answer 7

happyness has no cause