And... The awaited Day

Om Sai Ram

I am in kind of posting here the most auspicious and awaited day (Ganesh Chathurthi). My day turned out to be a major disaster un-expectedly. I did not even face many such consequences earlier during my stay at my MIL's home (Mother-In-Law). There were many problems which boomed out in this wonderful day, thereby making me think only about the problem and forget many other important aspects of this day. I guess this is normal human behavior and this temperment is the same for any person as such. I was just thinking to myself that married life is a road with thorns and hard stones in it, however, it depends on how one is able to overcome those and make it a carpet filled with roses. I just faced many problems right from the day begun. I was about to visit Arni today and talk to Jai Ganesh about the wedding plans along with Gokul. This happened as expected, but I started from home at around 10.30 A.M, which I think was too late to start off.

Gokul and I started our journey with few of those horrible village roads. We finally reached there at around 1.30 P.M. Had a excited talk with Jai's family members, got a chance to make a formal pooja to Baba at his house and did eat Kolukattais too (A sweet dish which is famous for Ganesh Chathurthi). Did all these things and went to Devi's house.  She also had a warm welcome aboard and yes, we had a good time for a couple of minutes. It was 6.15 P.M in the evening by then. We felt it was high time we got back home. Started off from Arni just thinking about Baba.

Ohh yes, I forgot to mention the most high-lighted part of the day. It was the major confrontation between me and my husband, that added even more fuel to the fire. However, I thought to myself one thing and that was what I learnt today. On any despairing situation, it is always better to surrender you and your soul to Baba completely rather than questioning him "Why me". I remember a story of an adherent of Baba who gave births to eight children and none of the eight survived more than a couple of days. Instead of questioning Baba about this, the devotee took his last child in to Baba, placed the child on his feet and said, "Baba, whatever we have is yours, if you feel you have to take off the life of this child also, please do it". Is'nt this Bakthi or devotion or love amazing? I feel it is more important to practice the way of living a complete life with peace and harmony. It takes stupendous time and effort to bring out such a practice. Dont you think it makes our life complete and makes us feel near to our Sathguru? I feel it and I did it today. I dont care about the result. All I know is Baba knows what to give for me and when to give. Anything I do is for him and enacted by him. Be it any emotion.

Taking and accepting pain, gives more pleasure than anything else. Relinquish yourself with our Sathguru and he shall show enormous love towards you. With this note, I have yet another incident to be posted in this blog. It resembles a story of Sai Satcharithra. Baba will keep me writing about that too.

Jai Sai Nath