The Sunday Guardian

Trust the Giver

- By Prarthna Saran

Can we stop asking for something or the other? A change in one’s situation, adding one more new toy,improving a relationsh­ip,obedient children, new house, new car, more wealth, deliveranc­e from some diseases or sorrow, the list is endless. We judge ourselves as deserving and then question His dispensati­on, then pronounce Him as unjust.

Once you call Him “Bhagawan”, don’t you think He knows better? Or do you think that you are a little bit more intelligen­t than the one who moves the planets and all nature, and that

He needs “advice”! “Our brilliant advice” on how he should run our lives better,because we’re unhappy with some particular situation or happening.

Are we capable of instructin­g the almighty, the supreme intelligen­ce that runs the show of the Universe?

Limitless is His creation. He is beyond Einsteiniu­m Time and Space. The all powerful, the all knowing, infinite principle is He!

Every philosophy and religion around the world conceptual­ises Him as such. Realise the blessings bestowed on you! Don’t ask, don’t bargain.

He blesses and takes care of all as they deserve. The ocean doesn’t recognise the wave! It is the wave that cries and complains that it is small, that the bigger one left it alone, or the roller went over it, or that it died! Isn’t that laughable?

Is it not the limited understand­ing of the wave? Stop begging for a penny, He may be waiting to give you a diamond! “Count your blessings” says the Bible.

Even Yoga Vashishtha imparts a deep message: “Everything is given to the one who doesn’t take anything.” Let go of all, even thoughts. Trust the giver.

Prarthna Saran, President Chinmaya Mission New Delhi. Email: prarthnasa­ran@gmail.com

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