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body's fate, is also changing that determinism by its intervention as Puruşakāra. But never forget that both are one and the same thing in its source, coming from the Divine.
As there are different levels of consciousness, there are also different levels of this Daiva and determinism. Determinism of one level can be completely changed by the intervention of the determinism of other level. And this changing or cancelling of Daiva of one level of consciousness by the Daiva of a higher consciousness is puruşakāra or effort.
Suppose, a person's body is very weak and full of diseases. In that case the fate of determinism in his physical level is that he will die soon. Or, you can see the thing from another view.
As this fate in physical level is to make him die very soon, so he · is weak and full of diseases. But in his mind he can be very
strong, and so strongly he can suggest about the impossibility of immediate death that actually it will operate as a force and change the fate of his body. That means, a higher determinism of mind intervenes and changes the determinism of physical level. So, there is no single fate. There are conflicts of fates, and ‘puruşakāra' sometimes means nothing but to take side of the Daiva’ of one level against the 'Daiva’ of another level of consciousness.
As these mind, body, life etc. are so much inter-related and as they influence one another, it appears as though a person has one single fate. But that is not true. Man is nothing but a combination of different vibrations of consciousness, gross and subtle, which are continuously changing. When we say 'Daiva', it is nothing but ari approximate vision of the future according to the present relationship among the different vibrations of consciousness. When we say “Puruşakāra' it is nothing but an effort to change the present relationship so that it can affect the future and change the 'Daiva' or an effort to maintain the present relationship and fulfil the “Daiva'. But this Daiva’ is not at all fixed or unchangeable as there are many fates in so many levels, or one man. You can say it is something like dialectics of fate.
