As I left for my Monday morning office today, just a few meters of drive away from home it seemed like curtains all the way through.
A huge crane moving right in front of my car, for some reason decided to back throw its arm on to my car's windshield, smashing the mirror and bonnet completely, and the fork of the crane arm, plunging into my car onto my face.
While a mind within me said that this was it, another voice prompted me to duck down and stay calm...and so I did. As I sit back and look at the car body and my own, they seem to be poles apart, one trashed and the other unscathed. How, Why, I dont know...
Immediately after the incident, I remembered a story that H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji had once narrated.
A Master and disciple were once out in the woods, when it started raining heavily. They ran back to their hut to find it half submerged in water. The disciple was full of complaints..."I meditated, served people, etc for so many years and in return, O God, you could not even save my hut for me"
, How cruel are you". The Master was on the contrary singing the praise of the Divine..."How considerate are you Oh God that despite the vast devastation, you saved half the hut so there was some place for us to find shelter in."
And it was today that the story made sense to me. For every situation in life, we have 2 options.
1) Lament over the loss
2) Be grateful for the Grace
Its like an arrow was to severe the head away, but blew away the cap. The Grace of the Master works that way. Unfathomable are the ways of the Divine!
A huge crane moving right in front of my car, for some reason decided to back throw its arm on to my car's windshield, smashing the mirror and bonnet completely, and the fork of the crane arm, plunging into my car onto my face.
While a mind within me said that this was it, another voice prompted me to duck down and stay calm...and so I did. As I sit back and look at the car body and my own, they seem to be poles apart, one trashed and the other unscathed. How, Why, I dont know...
Immediately after the incident, I remembered a story that H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji had once narrated.
A Master and disciple were once out in the woods, when it started raining heavily. They ran back to their hut to find it half submerged in water. The disciple was full of complaints..."I meditated, served people, etc for so many years and in return, O God, you could not even save my hut for me"
, How cruel are you". The Master was on the contrary singing the praise of the Divine..."How considerate are you Oh God that despite the vast devastation, you saved half the hut so there was some place for us to find shelter in."
And it was today that the story made sense to me. For every situation in life, we have 2 options.
1) Lament over the loss
2) Be grateful for the Grace
Its like an arrow was to severe the head away, but blew away the cap. The Grace of the Master works that way. Unfathomable are the ways of the Divine!
