Let me tell you a simple fact.
Marriage is a union with a purpose to look for a partner of opposite gender in order to experience the 24 hour cycle, repeatedly and better than the previous day. Each partner comes into this partnership with his/her own preconceived expectations to seek fulfillment of his/her desires.
What’s the limit of these powers?
It is limitless. It is like the Shiva-Shakti. The power of Vishnu who governs the Universe. The bearer of the supreme Knowledge - Saraswati. And so on. They always offer it for the benefit of the universe without any misuse. And all these powers are one and the same thing - adwait. For convenience of our understanding for pursuing specific goals, we classify them.
But that should not be your focus now, because it is the ultimate. First, you need to start understanding yourself - the main cause of your incarnation.
It is very important to understand that the purpose of our birth is to attend several classrooms on planet Earth. Society evolves with time. What you may have done out of knowing or ignorance two lives back, you may probably will not do it in this life time. Let's say you lived in the middle of 19th century. Knowledge was scarce, and so you lived with limited information, limited resource and had no way of separating and understanding fact from fiction. Your "action" then were guided by what you were empowered with. The stronger and powerful you were, there could have been a tendency to exploit and misuse for personal gratification and fulfillment of personal desires at the expense of miseries, pain and obstruction to others. And so, in the current life you play the observe part of the coin. Roles reverse. This is a never ending game, unless one gets out of the gravity of the situation, like India is currently going to do with Chandrayaan-2 and get out of the control of Earth's gravity.
In the present life, ignorance is less possible. Because of the intense awareness and access to information. One can become a social butterfly and drown into the present day culture of SM and Google and all the myths that come with it (it is all different form of the same prakriti - which is basically illusionary). On the other hand, with skeptism, one can question every so called "modern maayavi" stimulus that is poked to you through your eyes or ears to transform your brain.
And the cause for every human birth is the unfulfilled desires. They get fulfilled at their own pace, or sometimes never. It is all dependent on the seed (current Karma) we sowed and in what environment (the net worth of Karmas and its outcome you have accumulated over several lives). Like sowing a mango seed in the Thar desert and hoping to get bountiful of mangoes in future. It is not going to happen. So in this case you desired a fruit of mango but you had created such circumstances over your past lives, that you now have access only to desert.
The karma we did along with creates the seed, with focus on fulfillment of our desires. It is like how we close our account books every year with a P&L and a Balance Sheet and keep carrying forward our assets and liabilities as well as enjoy the fruits in the form of profits and dividends. Same applies to Karmas of our lives.
This universe is a very intelligent entity. It keeps record of every action and inter-action - of every type - physical, sensory, mental, intellectual & spiritual. And the assets (punya or otherwise) are carried forward in every life time and the fruits are disbursed during some lifetime as they ripen. We casually call it fate. More later.
Question - What do you do for a living?
