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.