Question: Can any person get more than he is destined to get especially by worshiping demigods? Prahlada Maharaja has said that material happiness and unhappiness is fixed. Then why do people get immediate results when they start worshipping demigods? Are these results in addition to what they are destined to get? What is destiny then?
Answer by Romapada Swami: By performance of punya of any type, one increases one’s entitlement to reap the fruits of one’s piety. Prahlada Maharaja’s statement is not contradicted by a demigod worshiper’s enjoying fruits coming from their worship. As you have written, yes, “these results in addition to what they are destined to get”. The worshiper’s previous ‘punya account’ has just been increased by a ‘deposit’, and their prayers for receiving a benediction has just depleted the ‘punya account’ by a sizable ‘withdrawl’.
