Providence has strange ways of working. Read this line in a book by Nayantara Sehgal. A shayari says “hawa khilaaf thi leqin,ye shama bhi kya khoob jali hai-khuda bhi hone ke qya qya sabot deta hai”.
Indeed it is. And I have many times experienced it too, and have always wondered why so. Simple ways, normal or rather plain routine is may be a bit boring for God or the almighty. So to add spice (read zing) to itself or our lives he/she (deciding the gender of supreme is of great responsibility and understanding) does it probably. What could Life have been with no ups and downs just a flat road without any speed breakers….it always amuses me to explore that possibility. There are shocks, jitters, tremors, set backs and there after follows stability, new avenues, opportunities, accomplishments and triumph. And then we realize it – the strange ways of the working of providence, the realization of the supreme. But my point is – is it necessary that to realize and respect the supreme, do we need the jitters first?
A very recent tremor encountered by me makes me mull over the idea more. It happens to me that I have been devoting more time in religious or spiritual activities these days. At times confronting them and at times practicing them. But either ways the time spent is on these types of things. The more I am thinking the clouds of confusion thickening. Is it not only normal that after a quake, return of normalcy is a natural course? Do we call it providence or the normal course of nature? Is it the involvement of supreme or only the natural course? Am I afraid to accept the normal that I need to resort and relate it to supreme? Or is it actually the supreme, which is unseen and is strange in its manifestation, that we spend our life time in understanding its ways!!
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