Probably a second life...

13th April 2012, reminded me of a deadly event that happened in my life!!

This is how it began…. 

1996… in the month of June, a deadly event occurred, a soul drifting occurrence that I had ever faced or experienced before!

It was like an early sunrise, I woke up happily with eagerness in heart and smile on my lips to visit the “Elephanta Island” of Maharashtra!

I was cheerful and jolly!!
I felt like those were the happy moments that I ever wanted to live with… The day was colourful and lively. I was quite small, probably was in my 4th standard, it was our summer vacation visit.

Travelling 10 kms. from the Gateway of India, Mumbai, over the vast heavy sea, we reached the epic “Elephanta caves”.

The beautiful sculptures and carvings demonstrated how the beauty that held from years long, a temple to the Hindu God, Lord Shiva!

The peaceful and serene ambience around soothed me. The day was full of fun and frolic… After having spent almost two and a half hours inside the caves, it was time to move back to the dock.

Our return journey began! 

 

 Almost, 40 to 50 passengers were present; it was like a mini boat, which was run by the boat man.

On our return journey, it was a perfectly fine sunny weather. Parents, kids, the old and the youngsters were so much happy for their visit, everyone deep down busy relishing the peace and tranquillity.

But, nobody knew that something black, something dark was just about to happen! Nobody had foreseen the impending ill omens.

There’s a saying that “Omens don’t speak and come”

“Death is an inevitable truth” 

Gazing the sea waves, the rippling water, I suddenly made a wish to the sea!
A wish that was ought not to be made….

(People say, children are another form of God, they are most innocent and true from heart.)

But… it was all about to happen!

“Dear, little sea waves, please take me and all of us, inside the water, deep down the sea bed, where Mata Santoshi Maa will be there and we all will visit her.”

(And it turned out as if the words of the little me was heard by the sea … it became a true wish for the sea. And the wish was granted!)

There came a moment that felt like blanked, as if it had stopped and paused. Suddenly huge mass of heavy dark clouds covered the blue sky, and the wind’s speed began to take its violent form, blowing louder and louder.

The waves raised their height, it was with a ghostly appearance!
All of a sudden, the climate changed, everything occurred as if in a second!
There was no time to spell, ‘how?’

There were people screaming and shouting all around, kids were crying, trembling in fear. Parents had lain down on the boat’s floor with their kids, almost having given up the hope to be able to survive again…

The boat was half filled with water by then;
Everyone had just one prayer on their lips –
“Please, God Save Us”

The deadly misfortune continued for over an hour or more, it was hard to find a dock, as we were in the middle of the sea …

It was the day, when I saw death from the closest!!
Just a few moments back, Life was smiling at me and I was teeming with joy. And then now, here I was standing, trembling in fear, and staring at my end! My life was just about to stop, that was going to come true just before my own eyes.. as if it was pre-destined to happen… DEATH!!

I went again for a last wish, to the sea… “I am sorry, please save us” 

From the hopeless situation, after a large struggle between life and death, after a long time, the boat man could find a small dock, attached with fifteen more boats. Crossing and jumping each one of them, we finally could reach the end of the dock!!

And finally there was land under my feet! Everyone was saved, rescued from the deadly thunder storms!!

~ It was moreover like a message to me or say an experience, a note or a gift to me from the almighty, to endure the new life!

“Children are so innocent with their wishes that without knowing or having ever anticipated their outcome, they sometimes step into the unforeseen and the unimagined that they had ever asked for! How deadly can it become, when sometimes these wild thoughts of children come true!”

For me, it was a true wish; a desire to see my maa(bhagwanji), being in her arms was my only wish. But who in turn gave me… a new life… one more time… to live this gifted life!

Now, here I accept it and lead with a promise in my heart to serve well to this nature…
To remain a true child, a true devotee of Almighty, forever and ever … and everafter…

“I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.”

~ Smith Wigglesworth