FAITH.. WHAT'S IT LIKE?
That day winter morning hrs, the elderly gentleman was on his usual round of walk to the nearby market area to buy a few groceries and return..
As he finished his work and was returning home, a woman of late 30s sitting by the side of the road asked him something in her mother tongue showing a distant cloth poster tied to two poles advertising for admissions to a new kindergarten school being opened in the neighborhood. For a while, the elderly man couldn't understand what the lady was asking and was dumbstruck..
The woman repeatedly asked her question showing at the advertisement and finally, he just answered her speaking the content of advertisement with a mixture of English and one or two words of her own language known to him. When he used those words, the woman nodded her head, appeared thanking him in her own language with a smile and bid him a ‘Bye’..
As the man started walking further, the thoughts continued in him on the woman’s interest connected to the poster as the school was never for the children of people like her or like him and thus could never conclude on her requirement in connection with that..
Just then, a bus fully colored yellow overtook him with the people in the bus all dressed up in yellow singing in chorus a devotional song. It was pleasant to listen to their song and when he took a small look that side, it suddenly struck him..
Yes! The bus was painted yellow, the people in the bus dressed up in yellow drapes and the lady waiting for the bus and who enquired about the poster too was in her yellow costume. That means, she was one of the Devotees of the Devotional Group. But what was her interest in the poster?
Another flash came up in no time and that really clarified his doubt..
The cloth of the poster too was yellow in color!
Means, she wanted to know whether the same colored poster by chance was carrying any of her own group's related activities and if that was the case, she was worried whether she was missing participating in any one of them. And squarely there was a language barrier for her as she could not make out anything written there in English..
But being educated too, the color insensitivity had taken over the gentleman at that point of time for a while!
He felt instantly so good to know that the Lady Devotee who was next to him sometime back which of course was
‘The Last Time He Saw Her.‘
In his life,
ALMOST TAUGHT EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD FROM CHILDHOOD!
‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.’
Keyword: FAITH
That day winter morning hrs, the elderly gentleman was on his usual round of walk to the nearby market area to buy a few groceries and return..
As he finished his work and was returning home, a woman of late 30s sitting by the side of the road asked him something in her mother tongue showing a distant cloth poster tied to two poles advertising for admissions to a new kindergarten school being opened in the neighborhood. For a while, the elderly man couldn't understand what the lady was asking and was dumbstruck..
The woman repeatedly asked her question showing at the advertisement and finally, he just answered her speaking the content of advertisement with a mixture of English and one or two words of her own language known to him. When he used those words, the woman nodded her head, appeared thanking him in her own language with a smile and bid him a ‘Bye’..
As the man started walking further, the thoughts continued in him on the woman’s interest connected to the poster as the school was never for the children of people like her or like him and thus could never conclude on her requirement in connection with that..
Just then, a bus fully colored yellow overtook him with the people in the bus all dressed up in yellow singing in chorus a devotional song. It was pleasant to listen to their song and when he took a small look that side, it suddenly struck him..
Yes! The bus was painted yellow, the people in the bus dressed up in yellow drapes and the lady waiting for the bus and who enquired about the poster too was in her yellow costume. That means, she was one of the Devotees of the Devotional Group. But what was her interest in the poster?
Another flash came up in no time and that really clarified his doubt..
The cloth of the poster too was yellow in color!
Means, she wanted to know whether the same colored poster by chance was carrying any of her own group's related activities and if that was the case, she was worried whether she was missing participating in any one of them. And squarely there was a language barrier for her as she could not make out anything written there in English..
But being educated too, the color insensitivity had taken over the gentleman at that point of time for a while!
He felt instantly so good to know that the Lady Devotee who was next to him sometime back which of course was
‘The Last Time He Saw Her.‘
In his life,
- Firmly carrying her belief in God to the root,
- Accepted the related practices in full all along
- Illuminating her premises with her never fading beautiful smile,
- Totally never wanted to do anything less there and thus
- Honestly was filling up all gaps in the Devotional Program in front truly bringing
ALMOST TAUGHT EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD FROM CHILDHOOD!
‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.’
Keyword: FAITH
A story of faith. Woman waiting for yellow coloured cloth, only symbol she knows in a land she does not speak the language, to get up on a yellow coloured bus. What would a devotee do to meet his / her object of worship?
ReplyDeleteYes, Abhijit.. When uncertainty stands as a reality in front of human mind, searching for a solution there in becomes another fact with the person and exactly at that point of time alone, there would be a doubt in the individual,. 'If all these solutions fail ultimately, what am I?' Such a disturbed mind can never get peace unless it depends on something beyond the human achievements.. There alone one's faith takes birth and remains through out his/her life as a single entity..
DeleteExpressing thru' that right alone brings in a meaning to one's life whatever be unless the same does not break the rules of the law of the land as the lady in the story believed. honestly.
Thanks for the query raised thru' the valuable comment here!
A great post on Faith
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment!
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