“Yeah, it is clear,
but I have another doubt. If god is inside us, then why are we going to
temple?” This time it was Dheeraj who asked the question.
“That is really an interesting question. Now I am asking the
same question back to you. Why do you go to temple?”
“ This is not fair. You can’t ask that back to me. “ Dheeraj replied with a smile in his face.
“Just relax and please answer to my question.” Stranger asked again, as if he is expecting a genuine reply from them.
“I don't know actually. I just went there for some peace of
mind.” this time it was Rajeev who replied for the question.
“Really? Did you get that? Anyway let me tell the point
clear. You know that our culture is thousands of years old. You have heard
about Sanyasi. Right? How were they prayed?”
“Well, they used to go to forest and sat is some place
under the tree and prayed.” Dheeraj replied with a happy face ,as it was the first question for which he knew the answer.
But stranger , who was not satisfied by the answer , asked another question.
“Yeah, right. But why did they do that? Weren’t there any
temples at that time? “
“Well, you need to ask them” replied Rajeev, indicating that
he already got irritated by his questions.
Stranger replied : “Well... Leave it. Even I don’t know whether there were
temples at that time. But the point is that, for prayer, you don’t even need temples. But temples are for
creating atmosphere for prayer. If you may be sitting at home, probably your
mind may be in television, while you are praying. Temples helped to avoid that.But
today, situations are becoming more worse. I have seen people saying that they
need to go to temple fast and then to go for a party or to office or some other
place. The moment they reach temple, their mind might have started journey to next place. Else people
may be thinking whether mobile in their pocket is vibrating or not.So, instead
of complete focus on prayer, they split their minds for multitasking. As a
result, they never get any satisfaction. Then they curse god, saying he didn’t
listen to prayer. But they are not thinking whether they had really prayed.
These prays are actually for self realization.”
“Self realization? ” Both Rajeev and Dheeraj said at the same time.
“Have you ever went to Sabarimala or Amarnath? Do you think
gods are crazy and so that they went to top of mountains and sat there, instead
of sitting near a main road? If you have
gone to Sabarimala, you might have noticed that the moment to reach 18th
step, you can see a word there infront of temple ‘ Thathvamasi’ which means ‘it
is you’. The god sitting there is actually you or your power. The tough journey
to the top, symbolically represent the tough journey for you to realize who
really you are. The moment you realize it, you will take responsibilities on
you. Instead what we do today is consider god as someone who is outside you .
Then you are giving all responsibilities to him. If he does good, then you
are happy. Else you will curse them without even trying to analysing the situation.”
"What you actually mean by that?" First time, Rajeev showed some interest in stranger's words.
“When you pray to Ganapathy, what you actually expect? Do
you expect him to come on his rat near you and remove all the barriers infront
of you? Actually he is the power inside you , who gives you enough confidence
and courage to beat barriers. The moment you thing both are different, you will
lose your confidence.But still, he will try to help you through other persons
also. Just like now he is helping you to come back to your life.“ Stranger explained.
“Now, God is helping me? How?” Rajeev got confused.
“In the morning, you had decided to commit suicide. But , when you
came here, someone whom you had never seen came to you first and later , I came
. Neither him nor me, has nothing to lose even if you commit suicide. Still we
were here accidentally and talked to you. Doesn’t that mean someone is really
interested to bring you back to life? Please take responsibility for whatever
happened and continue your journey.When
you born in Earth, you ever thought that you would become an engineer, and then
get a job here and then you might cry later ? But still , whatever happened is
just because of you. Who took decision to join the company? You or God? But the
moment you lost enthusiasm in job, you said God is cruel. “
“You are really cool. We should have been met early.”
Dheeraj got excited after hearing those words.
Stranger smiled but didn’t say any word.
Rajeev also remained silent as if he was lost in his
thoughts. After sometime he told “You are right sir. I am taking the
responsibility. I will take responsibilities from here on. It is god who
brought you here now.”
“See Rajeev, God is the power who is inside both of us and
is same. There is no need for that sentence.Anyway I am leaving now. We will
meet again.” Stranger replied with a happy face, which said that he is happy as Rajeev realized his mistake.
“But sir, please tell your name.”
“ I think it is irrelevant. We will meet again. Bye now “
The stranger walked away from them.
After some time , Dheeraj also said good bye, as he had to
go for a DJ night.
Rajeev remained silent for some more time. Finally he took
his mobile and updated new status.
“ Plan cancelled. Not going to commit suicide.”
His status didn’t get any like, as usual.
The end
AMAZING....
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