"Haani laabh…jeevan maran….jas… apjas…
VIDHIHAATH"
No less a poet and saint than Tulsidas himself has held that Profit and loss, life and death and fame and infamy..are all in the hands of Almighty Fortune…
There is hardly anything else in man’s life which is beyond what fortune rules.
A farmer even after back-breaking work in his fields has a terrible year because the monsoon has failed.
There was nothing lacking in his efforts but that it was so willed by fortune.
Albert Einsten… the great scientist had admitted that fortune had as much hand in his achievements as his rational deductions. On most occasions he had stumbled on to his conclusions by a mere stroke of fortune.
In fact, most of the equipments we use today such as a computers, cell phones, ballpoint pens, air-conditioners, the internet and many more were discovered by accident….fortunate accidents that is….
If the accidents would not have happened, then ours would be a completely different world.
I am reasonably certain that there is no one denying the obvious fact that bravery, hard work etc…have got absolutely nothing to do in being born with a golden spoon ….or with degrading poverty….
If intensity of labour could remedy that then there would be no poverty to talk about and no poor to suffer.
Thomas Gray in his famous elegy written in a country churchyard laments the lot of those unfortunate villagers who could not rise to fame like Melton or Hampton because of the lack of suitable opportunities. Their intentions were as noble and humanitarian as that of any other person of fame, their will to work beyond doubt but heir fortune forbade them.
You can indeed never predict what a man can achieve no matter how bold and intense his efforts might be if he does not have a smiling fortune to back his efforts up.
Even the bravest and the daring who flount chance and fortune have to bow before it because …
"Bhagyam falati sarvatra…na vidya ..Na cha paurusham"…which means it is always fortune which prevails, neither knowledge nor enterprise.
