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surrender to the Almighty is the highest form of bhakti. It stands for accepting
every situation as a gift or prasad from God. It means living every moment to
perfection by using all your mental, physical and spiritual potential to the
maximum.
Spirituality means
doing things in the right spirit and with complete faith. No situation is
frivolous or insignificant because it always contains a hidden message. There
are no flaws in the Divine's design, this is what we all must be aware of just
like one dev-doot, or angel, did when he was banished from the heaven to lead a
life as a cobbler to make him realize the consequence of questioning the wisdom
of the Almighty.
This angel
had become so evolved spiritually that he was just one step away from becoming
one with the Supreme. Pointing to a young woman on Earth, God asked him to take
away her soul as it was time for her to die. When the angel reached the woman's
house, he witnessed a heart-rending scene. Dressed in rags, the woman was
cradling a three-month-old baby in her arms and was trying to pacify her two
other children, aged two and four, who were crying with hunger. All looked
malnourished and pale. There was not a morsel in the house. The woman had lost
her husband, their sole breadwinner, a few months ago. With three little
children to take care, she was unable to make ends meet. Now she was running
high fever and was wondering what was to become of her and her children.
The sight of the poor family
living in such trying circumstances brought tears to the angel's eyes. He could
not be so unkind and deprive the helpless kids of their only living parent! His
compassion and benevolence got the better of him so he decided to return to the
Heaven empty handed. His disobedience earned him the Almighty's displeasure.
Since every act of the divine
is guided by divine love and benevolence, God decided to make him realize his
folly of interfering with the Supreme Law or design by banishing him to Earth
for a lifetime as a cobbler. The only way he could return and be with the
Almighty once again was by laughing at his plight three
times.
Thus the angel was born
on Earth into a family of cobblers. He grew up beating smelly hides into smooth
leather to make footwear. One day as he sat making footwear, the irony of it all
dawned on him and he laughed at his situation -- once a Dev-dhoot, God's chosen
one, was now on Earth working with animal skins, making footwear for mortals.
Any way, instead of whining,
the Dev-dhoot accepted his situation and continued leading his life in total
surrender to the Almighty, giving his whole being to what ever work that came in
front of him, whether it was beating leather into shape or making footwear. Soon
he became so good at his work that his masters and customers started praising
his work. And one day he was asked to make shoes for none other than the king
himself!
The angel put his
mind, heart and soul into his work and before he could realize, he had created
the most beautiful pair of chappals ever. But his masters were livid with him
for being so careless, wasting raw material and time on a pair of chappals
instead of the shoes that the king's men had ordered.
Soon they arrived but much to
everybody's surprise, the king's men asked for a pair of chappals instead of
shoes. The king had just died and they wanted chappals to the fit the corpse
before it could be cremated. It was a ritual in those days that the body of the
king was adorned with chappals rather than shoes on his final journey. The
dev-doot was speechless. Nothing seemed frivolous or meaningless in the
Almighty's scheme of things, he thought and laughed to himself the second time.
As days passed by, the angel
became increasingly well known for his fabulous footwear. One day, a rich
elderly lady escorting three pretty girls came to his shop to place a huge order
for fancy footwear for the girls as they were all of marriageable age. When the
angel asked her whether the girls were her daughters, the lady shook her head
and replied that she was a rich businessman's wife but could never have any
children. But one day her neighbours told her about three helpless orphans who
had lost their parents. She felt the Almighty had answered her prayers and she
adopted the three kids. The lady was in fact talking about the same children
whose mother the Almighty had once ordered him to take away! Marveling at the
Divine's design, the angel laughed to himself the third time.
It was all about surrender and
accepting every situation as a gift from God, to be lived through with all our
potential. He had been banished to Earth in the first place because he had
failed to do so, but later he got the opportunities to laugh his way out of this
human life because of his surrender. His life's mission was now complete. He was
ready to leave for his heavenly abode where the Almighty was waiting for him
with open arms. He knew it well that now he would be with the Supreme forever.
He had learnt the ultimate message meant for all humans on Earth that the only
way to cut our Karma Cycle, the cause of birth and death, for total liberation
and merging with the Supreme is to perform every given act, whether in thought,
word or deed, as an offering to the Lord in total surrender, without doubting or
questioning the purpose behind it.
This is true realisation. This
is the essence of life.
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