గురు బ్రహ్మ గురుర్ విష్ణుః గురుర్ దేవో
మహేశ్వరః
గురు స్సాక్షాత్ పరబ్రహ్మ తస్మై శ్రీ గురవే నమః
శుక్లాం బరధరం విష్ణుం శశివర్ణం చతుర్భుజం
ప్రసన్న వదనం ధ్యాయేత్ సర్వ విఘ్నోప శాంతయే
శ్రుతి స్మృతి పురాణానాం ఆలయం కరుణాలయం
నమామి భగవత్ పాదం శంకరం లోక శంకరం
ఓం నమః శివాయ
So, here I am after a pretty long
break. I am sure that I don’t need to tell the reason. I was “busy”. Euphemism
for some million bad qualities J
This post is about some small incident
that happened which taught me couple of things.
Day before yesterday (April 25th,
2015) we went on a small pilgrimage to Mantraalayam and Pancha Mukha Aanjaneya
Swamy temples. We had a wonderful darshan of Sri Raghavendra Swamy brindavan as
well as Aanjaneya Swamy. All these tapo bhoomis (where great people like Sri
Raghavendra Swamy performed Tapasya) are really awesome. When you sit down in
the morning to do some Japa or something, your mind is pretty clear. As if the
brain keeps asking what you want to focus on J.
We went in a 16 seater van with a
driver. So on our way back, the driver was driving the vehicle on the left most
lane of a 2 lane highway. He was driving at a speed of some 80 kmph. Few meters
ahead of him suddenly a two wheeler got onto the highway in the perpendicular
direction, trying to cross the road. The driver applied brakes and honked and
shifted to the right lane hoping that the two-wheeler would stop on the left
lane. To his surprise the two-wheeler continued and the driver did not have an
option but to take the vehicle onto the divider and onto the opposite side of
the highway. We had a small roller coaster ride and he could stop the vehicle across
the road on the opposite side. During this road crossing the two-wheeler got
hit by the side view mirror of the van and both the passengers fell down and
the pillion rider got hit badly. We got down the van and helped the person to
get into an ambulance. He was able to get up and walk to the ambulance though
he had bruises all over his body. We spoke to the police and assured them of
our support and started our journey back home.
We were extremely fortunate as multiple
things could have happened but God provided a path which had the least possible
effect. Some of the scary possibilities:
- The driver could have rammed into the two-wheeler and that could have been fatal to both of them.
- Our vehicle could have turned upside down considering the speed at which we were going when it got onto the raised divider.
- A large truck travelling at a good speed could have rammed into our vehicle when this went onto the wrong side of the highway.
- Losing control the driver could have got off the road on the other side which could have pushed the van down a big height on the other side.
Irrespective of whose fault it is, if this
had been fatal to any of the bike riders, it would be difficult to live with
that pain for the rest of our lives for every one of us.
From this unexpected
experience, I have learnt couple of important lessons.
- God would not let go waste of any of your good deeds. I read one very nice quote in Mantralayam. “What you ate yesterday belongs to earth. What you gave yesterday to someone to eat belongs to you.” So it’s important that you always have some credit so that God can make use of it when needed for your own benefit.
- More importantly, once some credit gets used, it’s important to replenish it. So whenever some good like the above happens it gives us lot of inspiration to do more good deeds in our lives.
సర్వే జనాః సుఖినో భవంతు
PS: There could be typos and other mistakes
in telugu and english, kindly pardon me with big hearts.
