Today a simple incident thought me an important lesson.
Few days back, the nada string of the pyjama that I wear during my Yoga
practice had come out. I stopped doing my Yoga practice due to this
reason. Probably an excuse to take a break. I tried to find a safety pin
to try to insert the thread back into it's socket. I searched a few
places in the ashram where the safety pin could likely be found but, to
no avail. I resigned from the endeavour to search and convinced myself
that I will search for it some other day.
Today,
I made up my mind to somehow resume my Yoga session. Which means, I had
to find the safety pin - some how or the other. I searched one drawer
but to no avail. Then, I searched the most obvious drawer. With a little
searching, I found one safety pin lying in the corner of the drawer,
as if waiting to be found. I was amazed and shocked to find it. It was
as if someone magically put it there from the heavens. I had searched
this drawer last time also but didn't find it. What was the difference
between the last search and this present one that made all the
difference? The answer dawned on me at once - "When we are
desperate and determined to find something or seek answers to our
problems, God arranges for the thing that we are searching for or
reveals the answers to our problems we are looking for." This is how
every discovery is made and this is how every problem is solved. This is
the secret of success, in any and every endeavor. Jesus Christ
mentioned this as - "Seek and you shall find" or "Knock and the door
shall open". Our problem is that we don't seek seriously and don't knock
vigorously. We give up and accept defeat too fast without even trying
our best.
All
solutions are lying just near us, waiting to show itself to us provided
we are eager to find them. Therefore we need to remember that, our
search for solution ends when the desire to end the search surges in our
hearts.
- Achyut Gopal Das
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