Dharmik scriptures are not against working and working means working hard. What the Dharmik scriptures are against is trying to manipulate our destiny with hard work.
How do we know what is our destiny? One may raise the next question. I do not know the future hence I need to work hard to get what I think I am supposed to get.
Working hard is our prerogative, getting some specific thing is my desire, that may sound coherent but it is deceptive .
Dhrithrasthra was powerful but his blindness made him clearly understand that he could not be the king, however blindness was not a disqualification to grow.
He was not disqualified from becoming a complete human being.
However kingship required certain specific qualifications. Which he did not have, but still he schemed to see that he and his son could be the future king of Hastinapura. He worked hard to change his destiny but did not work hard to grow .
Unfortunately all the signals which he was receiving from all the quarters were heard but not realized, felt but not experienced. He was instructed but he failed to put these instructions into practice.
Destiny made more twists in his life.
It did not give him what he duly did not deserve, plus took more things away from him in terms of peace and dharma, and because of this he lost all his children. And no one was left even to sympathize with him. It is difficult to feel sad for such people, they loose everything, even the sympathy of good people.
Next time when we try to equate working hard and changing destiny beware of the Dhritharasthra syndrome.
We might be working in wrong direction and go so far way from benefitting that our hard work instead of making us grow, it might take us in the opposite direction where we drown
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