Yesterday I met a lady of my mother's age. We both happen to follow the same system of meditation (called Sahaj Marg). On Sundays we have group meditation (in ashram). While returning back she gave me lift in her car. We started talking about the various aspects of a typical marriage in our society, the repercussions of not have the right parter and like stuff. As it has happened with me earlier, we instantly opened up as if we knew each other for ages! The discussion went on in general and almost suddenly, she started narrating the story of her marriage.
Her husband had left her and 3 children (2 daughters and 1 son) 15 years ago to settle with someone else. The problem in her married life started just after marriage (about 30 years ago). He was a habitual drunkard, always misbehaved with her in whatever possible ways one can think of. For the sake of children she could not leave him too. Things went on like this for 15 years. Then the day came she feared the most; he left her.
But something gave her the courage this time to take life head on. Whatever may happen she decided not to go to him. She moved on in life with conviction and above all faith. She had a job of a clerk in a public-sector bank. She was able to give good education to all her three children (I did not have the courage to ask her how she managed). Both her daughters are married and well settled and her son is a telecom engineer in Bangalore. She herself is now the Deputy Manager of the bank where she started as a clerk. She has purchased a flat, maintains a car (learnt driving recently) and a good lifestyle; all done alone!!!
The above is history today.
What she is doing now is something.... (I have no words to express it).
Some 10 days back her husband got hospitalized. When she came to know about it she went to the hospital and fulfilled her duty more as a human being than as a wife.
I am speechless!
Anyone who meets her today will be fairly impressed by her confidence, energy and enthusiasm. Alas! it has not come for free.
All these stories make me think, time and again, that Nature has a purpose to fulfill through us. When a storm passes, the surrounding never remains the same. The rigid is uprooted and the flexible continues to move on, more convincingly.
Sufferings are like storm; they come to uproot the rigidity of fear and instills the flexibility of confidence within us! But not without faith.
Faith in Almighty who is within us. Faith guides us through the torment sea like a magnetic needle. We have no control over the nature of sea but we can fairly control our nature of response. When the ship reaches the harbor safely the sailor never remains the same; he has become more wise. He now asks himself,"Was he destined to reach or had he made his destiny?"
I feel it is both plus supported with faith.
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