Destiny or Prarabdha - II

This post would be in continuance of the earlier one and the topic is same, about Prarabha.  Its good to see that in facebook from so many devotees at least a handful of 30-35 people have liked it which means they agree with the concept of Destiny and others still doesn’t!! Well, this is something where there will be always difference of opinions, confusions and double mindedness and when such type of dilemmas appear it is better to accept the instructions unconditionally given by your Guru or God and have strong faith in it!! Whatever it is, we would discuss more on this aspect today. I remember many or say 100s of incidents where the power of Prarabha has been proved again and again. It once happened that our beloved Gurudev suddenly happened to visit a young devotee who was a bachelor staying in a hostel and preparing for his LLB exams!!  The devotee was overwhelmed with joy to see our Guruji and welcomed Him to his small room. Guruji asked him to not to worry for His needs as He has just dropped in to check about his health & well-being. It was winter night and the young fellow was busy in studying his huge & thick books of Law when suddenly Sri Sri Thakur came there and enquired as what is he doing??? The young fellow told that tomorrow he has got exams for his LLB degree and thats why he is busy in its preparation. Sri Sri Thakur suddenly asked him to give those thick books and a pencil and the young fellow thought that he had heard that Gurudev had never even went to any school properly and He is asking to study those heavy books of Law!! Whatever it is, as per order of Gurudev he gave the books and a pencil and Guruji marked some questions and asked that young fellow to prepare them as they will surely come next day paper & went away!! That fellow was in a dilemma and his analytical brain very quickly became active & started analysing the words of Sri Sri Ramthakur!!  After thinking for a while, he came to the conclusion that how can Sri Sri Thakur be so sure that these questions would only appear in the next day’s paper, He is an ordinary old man who in his whole life never went to any school and if he follow Guruji’s instructions he may not be able to write in the exam properly, thus he prepared only those questions which according to him were very important!! Next  day when he sat for the examination and got the question paper, his eyes became stone and he was in a shock for few minutes as only those questions had came which our beloved God Sri Sri Thakur had marked with the pencil!! He sat with his hands on head and somehow wrote the paper and came out!! After few days, again there was a paper for the Law exam and again Sri Sri Thakur did the same thing, asked for the books and marked the questions with a pencil and went away!! Dear Friends, now you see how wicked our minds are!! Again, it made this young fellow to think that Oh!! one day, by some coincidence those questions would have came but that doesn’t mean that they would happen again and again!!! See the greatness of human brain!!  Again, the same thing happened, next day only those questions appeared which our Gurudev had marked with the pencil!! Sri Sri Thakur had already left the place of that devotee that day itself after marking those questions and nearly after a month or two that fellow happened to meet Gurudev at somebody’s residence.  Guruji enquired about his well-being and after that asked about result of the LLB exam!! That young devotee informed Gurudev that the result was not so good to which Sri Sri Thakur wondered and enquired the reason for that as He had marked the questions. At this the young fellow bowed down his head in shame and narrated the whole story as how he hasn’t believed Sri Sri Thakur’s marked questions and requested to forgive him and apologised for the act. Sri Sri Thakur smiled and said in his usual dialect in Bengali as Apnar Kono Dosh Nayi, Prarobdh oi Boloban, Baita Dile o Khaite Pare Na!! (You did no mistake and it is not your fault any way as Destiny is more powerful, if it is in not your destiny you cannot even touch or eat the food even if it is kept before you!!). Actually, his Prarabhda only made his mind to think that how can Sri Sri Thakur be so sure about the questions!! Friends, now this incident is very minor one in comparison some very major incidents happened to some of very close devotees of our Gurudev where again and again it was proved that everything happens only because of Prarabha or Destiny of that very person!! All of you must be aware about Rohini Mazumdar babu about whom I had written in my earlier post!! It had once happened that Sri Sri Thakur was staying with them and one day Sri Sri Thakur was feeling very restless and His body language was showing that He is worried of something very gravely. Suddenly He called Rohini babu and took him to show a small fig of a particular tree which has grown near to their home and told that whenever a person is attacked by a disease called Nabhiswash in Bengali may be Navel-breathe and if you wrap the tender stem of this tree around the head of that person he would be cured. Also the stem can be wrapped around the navel and juice of that stem can also be given to the patient!! Rohini babu & his wife was wondering as suddenly what has happened that Guruji is showing & telling them about the medicinal qualities of this tree!! After this Guruji left their home and after a month or so suddenly one day their son got severely ill which went for many days!! Various doctors came to their home but their son’s condition keep on deteriorating and at last the disease was diagnosed as Nabhiswash !! Rohini babu called doctors from all areas viz, allopathic, ayurvedic etc. but nothing could help and one time his house was filled with different doctors from that region but fate has decided something else and the young son died!! After last rites were performed one day Rohini babu who was taking lunch at one of his neighbour’s house was asked by this neighbour that why didn’t your Guru do anything for your son??? Didn’t He told you any medicine?? Then suddenly, Rohini babu remembered about the tree which Gurudev had shown him ealier one month back!! He immediately ran to his house and found that tree and started lamenting & crying on his fate!! After few days, Rohini babu received a very big letter from Sri Sri Thakur where He had consoled the bereaved family and disclosed the fact that whatever has occured it has happened due to only and only Prarabdha and it was bound to happen!! He went on saying that I had told you about the medicine also beforehand but what the use?? Could you save your child?? Don’t feel bad for the child, he has completed all his karmas and left the material world and even said that it was better that the child died if he didn’t had died and his mother would have!!! So, again we saw that how Prarabha played its role in the life of Rohini babu!! The write –up has grown big and there is lot to say and discuss!! See you all at the next post!! Till then remember -Bhagyang Phalati Sarvatra – Sri Sri Ramthakur. Jai Ram!!