fatalism

 

Fatalism  happens not from any basic flaw in the sloka or the content.. 

It is the attitude of the one trying to interpret. Whenever something unpleasant happens to us we always tend to take a psychological retreat by trying to attribute the cause for the difficulty, or adverse situation, to the account of someone else.. 

The presumption that our woes stem from the machinations of others is ill conceived.. 

And the basic idea this slokam try to convey is that.

It is not a message canvassing laziness or abandoning of bona fide efforts on our own part to tide over the situation.

 But when things are out of hands for reasons beyond our control, a word of consolation is offered. That is all.

There will be situations where howsoever best we would try to control a situation, it may go completely out of our hands for no conceivable reason.. 

In such situations it is better to avoid the tendency to put blame on others and console ourselves, on the vagaries of fate, if that thought may be of some relief to us..

If you read in this a message that we should flow along pliantly allowing us to be thrown here and there by the erratic swings  of fate, that is an extreme interpretation. 

Of course each is entitled to his own perception.