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Fate, Circumstance, Destiny!!
Prachi Dhanvant Shah
Sunday morning, February 2nd, 2018 was a regular words. I thought maybe his words could reveal me Sunday until I discovered something unusual and some comfort. As I opened the book, the first word scandalous... awful! Just as every second Sunday, I was my eyesight witnessed was "Niyati" (Fate), and I got all ready to step out, heading with my kids to Pathshala. my answer. I felt his presence around me and my But as I open my house door, my eyes and heart anguish camouflaged into serenity. Was it a wouldn't believe what I discovered. My car was not coincidence? Or a daughter's stanch love and plea to there in my driveway. For instance, I rubbed my eyes her father? I realized my imprudent distress for the and stepped back thinking about where my car would loss of a mere car. A distress for irresponsible attitude be, until the fact hit me hard that my car was stolen. of a Government officer who is abound by his What? Why? How? These gongs of assertions were jurisdiction? I discovered myself to be a miniscule entity throbbing hideously in my mindset. Swirls of emotions with a confine scrutiny. My father's words endowed were twirling around me. But it was the fact. My carme with the fact that what I have and what I lost is was filched by may be a destitute or insatiate individual. nothing but my fate and destiny. The car was destined I was furious, distressed and woeful. In life, when we to be in possession of that stranger. Scrutinizing this attach a word "MY" to anything or anyone, it fact, I realized that it was destined that on that night expectedly sprouts a sensitivity of possession and it was only my car which was to be taken away as a fondness. For me it was "MY" car along with "MY" gift to that stranger's destiny. When there is so much favorite music collection for long drives, few personal of distress and sufferings around the world, people accessories and much more. And now to assimilate losing their life for no rationale, losing their homes in the datum that the so-called "MY" car was swiped an accident, losing loved ones from their life, then it away from my possession, it was like an abhorrent is fatuous of me moaning over a materialistic misery for me. Police authorities came over, recorded substance! the report and handed me a copy of it. When I asked As I read through my father's (Dr. Dhanvant Shah) them, what would be the certainty of finding my car, article on "Niyati" (Fate) it influenced to a blissful smile he assured me not by saying "We would try our best" on my face and contentment to my soul. Allow me to but by saying "Ma'am, forget about your car, it is next share few of his keynotes included in that article. to impossible to find your car. Insurance would pay Over an instance of his life through its ups and you and you should be good". These confident downs, he was very much inspired by a book by an assurances for not taking any efforts to even trying to author Sant Amitabh namely "Niyati ki Ananta find a car put me off and aggravated me even more. Rekhayen". The wordy meaning of Niyati - Fate is I posted about this episode on social media and my proceeding which is destined to ensue and not in our bitter experience with law and jurisdiction. Comments constraint. Occurrences that are abounding to happen hovered in, some constructive, some confident and will occur and that is not to happen will never befall some pessimistic with criticism and much more! Days no matter what. All this is bound and destined. A seed passed by and in these days of anguish I mournfully will rest assured sprout into a tree or a plant but missed my father. He was my strength and the only nothing else. Similarly, we all are committed to our one who could console me during my mood swings. I destiny. Destiny cannot be altered and if it can be felt helpless without him. I kept imputing him as his altered, then it is not destiny. None of the occurrences indulged daughter, why did he not teach me to live has the freedom of independence. In life, we perceive without him? How do I find answers to my queries that many people achieve abundance in no span of and concerns? And so, I picked one of his books time and with minimal efforts, and at the same time, "Vichaar Manthan", gazed at that book visualizing his there are many people who despite an enormous image on that book and opened it to read few of his amount of efforts they do not achieve expected
YGS 6
- 2090
