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“An action carried out through human effort may be well planned, well performed and properly accomplished, and yet be thwarted by fate. But likewise a fated action, something not carried out by humans, may be frustrated by human effort, heir of Bharata, as happens with cold and heat, rain, hunger and thirst. And a man whose being is constrained by fate may none the less opt to carry out some different action, and fate does not prevent him from doing so.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
An action carried out through human effort may be well planned, well performed
and properly accomplished, and yet be thwarted by fate. But likewise
a fated action, something not carried out by humans, may be frustrated by
human effort, heir of Bharata, as happens with cold and heat, rain, hunger and
thirst. And a man whose being is constrained by fate may none the less opt to
carry out some different action, and fate does not prevent him from doing so.