Are we ready...?

A friend’s comment on the “plan of life” got me thinking. I had always believed in oneness of the universe. Can our plan be different from the whole of universe’s plan?

As we all live, knowingly or unknowingly we also plan for our future. Even if some of us do not plan and like to live each day as it comes, at least secretly we all wish our future to be “good”...though this “good” is very relative to each individual and has different meaning for all. But even then, this “goodness” of tomorrow still contains few attributes common to all – happiness, love, satisfaction, peace, stability, and so forth.

We sometimes like to plan, plan for our better future, for our well being. But most of us find that in due course, somewhere, “our plans” for life are simply outrun by the “plans of life” for us. Why does it happen? Who is responsible for it? Where is our fault in it? What did we do to change it?...These are pertinent questions which hit our mind and heart then; unanswered.

Let us try and find out how life takes its shape and why so.

We live in a world where we all are connected to each other. The connection can be visible and straight or “just not known” connection. The connection can be close or very very remote. Now when one big change takes place in anyone’s life, that change has ripple effect. A person closest to him feels the effect at its highest level and a person remotely connected might not notice it at all at that moment.

Let us take one real example: One person died at an age where his girl child is unmarried. The child felt as if the roof over her head had blown away, everything seemed to be dark and lost to her, there was a void created forever... That’s a very direct effect as the child was directly closely related to her father. The time passed by; the child grew up, got educated, got married, and then took up a job as a teacher. In her class she found a little girl who was brilliant, chirpy, beautiful, vibrant and very lively. One day this little girl was absent. And then she did not come the second day. She did not come for third consecutive day and then for the whole week. Next week when she came back, she looked weak, shy, sad, silent and withdrawn in her own world. The teacher who really loved the girl, just asked, “what happened my dear?...” and this little girl broke down uncontrollably. She narrated to the teacher as to what tragedy had happened to her. She unfortunately had lost her father to a train accident who was the only surviving member of her family. As people in her extended family were fighting over remaining property, one of the aunts at least sent her to the school. She did not know what to do, where to look upon, the aunt had forgotten to pack her tiffin, she was hungry too. Oh, she also did not know who would pay her fee and if she would be able to attend school any more. She wanted to attend school; she loved her friends, her teacher. The teacher after learning this went completely blank and silent; she knew what it felt like. She could not say anything; nothing. But then, next week, the child was a welcome to the teacher’s family as her adopted daughter!...The story goes on, it is a real story.

The death of the father of this teacher directly did not have anything to do with this little girl, who was probably not even born then, but the effect of this incident on the mind of that teacher did greatly affect the later life of the little girl who was adopted as her daughter. In the times to come, this adopted little girl became a paediatrician surgeon, a doctor specialising in heart surgery of new born children, giving lives and smiles to many.

There are many and more real stories which tell us how connected we are to each other. There is always a thread which connects all of us through each other. It’s an interconnected web of life, incidents, actions, thoughts...; it is known as “Universe”. It is “One”.

Incidents like these happen on an everyday basis, but as we do not know the story behind, we are never able to connect the dots and so many things happening around us go unnoticed. We are never able to read and know the plans of the universe. But don’t we now know that everything is related and connected, each action of an individual affects the whole world, each incident has effects known and unknown on the whole of universe, each thought has vibrations going round and round attracting other vibrations - other thoughts. Who knows if one tragic death will bring smile to millions of life, one divorce will bring more love, one loss will bring higher profits, and one phone call will bring your soul mate?

...I would like to mention something here, something very very pertinent. I do not know how many people really believe here that departed souls can be contacted; even I have my doubts. But a friend of a friend who claims to do so, mentioned something mind blowing. We all have heard of a rape victim in Delhi, commonly known as “Nirbhaya”, who lost her battle against life in December last year. I would not like to go into her last days as they were very very tragic. I literally cried when I heard about it, it was just too much for anybody. Well, story goes on like this, this so called friend of a friend supposedly got in contact with the soul of “Nirbhaya” and asked her about how she was feeling after her death. The reply from Nirbhaya was unimaginable: she said “ I am happy. I did my job well. I was there to create awareness so that tomorrows are safer for others and I understand I was able to do it...”... Yes, she did it. She did wake us up. She did what nobody could do in decades. It is time we complete her job. Now the onus is on us to restore faith in manhood.

The whole thing, when I heard from my friend, mesmerized me, I was too stunned to speak. I did not know how much truth was there, but I just could not say anything, I was completely blank. I did not know if I should thank Nirbhaya for what she had done for others, or I should shun the whole thing as a fake. I still do not know. I just know some things are better untouched. It is beyond me...

There are things we do not know, we cannot even imagine, but it might happen and we only know about it later on. We can only read our lives once it is written on the pages of history, and not before. We now just know that each plan affects our plan and our plan affects everyone’s plan, each life affects our lives and our lives affect everyone’s life, and each thought affects our thoughts and our thoughts affect each thought of this whole universe...

We just know that there is always a story behind...! Always!

But, are we ready to accept it...?