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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Coincidence is Gods way of remianing anonymous- Part II

    Yesterday, I had planned to go to IIT once my office was over. I started
    from my office at 6:40PM. I had planned to discuss beautiful stories of
    Lord Rama with my friends in IIT, stay back overnight & start next morning
    after meeting all my previous roommates & after greeting the deities in the
    morning. I hitchhiked twice from my company to reach to Pune-Mumbai highway
    from my company & boarded a cab on the Pune-Mumbai highway. On the way, I
    was engrossed in reading Ramayana stories in the dim light of the vehicles
    coming from behind. I told the cab driver that if he doesn’t make me reach
    Bombay in 2 hours, I won’t pay him full. He was sure of his driving skills.
    I had to reach IIT well before 10PM unlike last time, when I somehow made
    to go inside campus with lot of anxiety. I was in high spirits. Meanwhile,
    I left in hurry. I didn’t wear my shoes very properly & one of that was
    little loose.

    We touched Bombay 9:10PM. I got down at Mankhurd and went to the local
    railway station there. The local was running late than its scheduled time.
    I was feeling every second very, very long. Finally, it came & I boarded
    the local. Then I reached Kurla. As soon as train halted at Kurla, people
    just started jumping inside without waiting for us to go out. The influx of
    the people boarding the train was so great that somehow I barely managed to
    come out. But my shoe came out of my leg in the rush, and I had to wait
    next 45 seconds to get my shoe back.

    I hurriedly changed the platform just to see my train for Kanjurmarg
    speeding away. I was startled. Just an hour ago in the cab there was clear
    inner voice had spoken to me that ‘Tushar, wear your shoe properly you may
    get into problem’. I was engrossed in planning & reading so I didn’t pay
    any hid to that. Now, on the platform I could clearly distinguish that was
    not my thought, it was from somebody different from me. From the authority
    of Bhagavad Gita, I can say that it was Lord within my heart as Paramatma
    instructed me as he instructs us time to time – "this is not good or this
    is good, bla bla bla…", when we are doing something & people call it as
    conscience.

    I had to wait 7 more minutes to catch the next train. My friend Nirmal
    called me, I requested him to wait for me at the IIT Main Gate. It was
    10:53PM & I was at Ghatkopar station in the train. I had a mad hope that I
    will reach before 10PM. Finally, after catching rickshaw from Kanjurmarg
    railway station, I reached the IIT Main Gate at 10:05PM. When I went to do
    entry in the register for visitors, the guards said politely but sternly
    that I can’t go inside. They won’t allow anybody after 10PM.

    It was completely different when I posted last post about my journey to
    Kota. At that time, I had followed the inner call & I had miraculously (it
    was miraculous to me) caught train when it had just started moving. This
    time I didn’t follow & I was unable to taste & share nectar from Ramayana
    in company of my friends.

    Lesson: Perhaps, above incidence was very small & damage was almost none
    but I got good lesson that, Krishna will interrupt in our life in the form
    of divine instructions of the scriptures, in the form of his devotees who
    are trying to spread his message & in the form of our conscience. But if we
    are too busy in our work or thoughts there won’t be any option other than
    lamenting at the end for not being able to follow the divine call of the
    Lord.

    Scriptures say that human form of life is so rare & short that any
    negligence on our part may ensure our stay on this mortal planet for 10 or
    100 or 10000 or 100000000 more or many more lifetimes to come.

    Srimad Bhagavatam says:

    "matir na krsne paratah svato va
    mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-vratanam
    adanta-gobhir visatam´ tamisram´
    punah punas carvita-carvananam"


    which means: "For those who are too busy in one’s own plan forgetting the
    God, the inclination towards God doesn’t come by efforts of self or that of
    others. Then they have to take pleasure in something which is available in
    any other form of life also than that of human being."

    So I decided to be more careful about following the instructions of the
    scriptures, of the mentors of scriptures & of the paramatma in the heart
    after conforming with the mentors & holy books.

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