Last Thursday,I had to do some shopping and then visit the Sai baba temple.Weather was not very welcoming and it was raining at irregular intervals since morning.At four in the evening,it took another break and stopped pouring in.I thought it was the right time to start if I wanted to be back home before it was too dark.I dressed my daughter in a full sleeves t-shirt and long pants with a jacket as it was cold outside. Through our traverse in a rented auto towards the marketplace, I saw water blocked at many places and roads flooded with dirty water making it intricate for the striders to move with ease. Budging through the water slide we reached the variety store and by the time I had done my shopping,it had started drizzling yet again.I could not wait for long behind the transparent glass door of the building from where my daughter enjoyed watching rain,as I had to visit the temple and be back home in time.When the frequency of the rain dwindled,we stepped out and awaited some transportation for agreeable time but it was futile.We started walking by the roadside and I tried to stop every unfilled auto which passed by from there.Some of them did not agree to go to the temple as it was located in a traffic prone area and some asked for three times the fare.I was not willing to compromise with my values by paying whatever they demanded as it was ethically improper.I was in in quandary situation and didn’t know what to do.To renounce and comfort my daughter who had supported me a good deal by mutely walking with me almost half a kilometer although she was by now partly drenched by the petite drops still plunging OR to stick to my values and keep marching until I found one truthful rickshaw wala.The second thought was to go back home without visiting the temple but I was reluctant to do that either as I had never been to that temple during my entire stay of last two years into Hyderabad and I was trying hard to visit the same since I had return from my holiday to Ahmedabad where I transpired to spot Sai baba almost everyday in a row in last week of my stay over there through uncommon means and thought it was some insinuation of Lord to me and hence past any difficulties I wanted to yield sight of Sai baba this Thursday though am not a frequent temple visitor.I looked at this trouble to be an ordeal from Lord to investigate my faith in HIM and thus I kept strolling in conjunction with my conversation to GOD that I will surely visit him today.And the next moment an auto came to a stand still by our side and the lady passenger from within tendered us a lift upto the main road which connected the temple to hardly a 3 minutes run street.Trouncing my preliminary indecision I entered in along with my daughter.While thanking that lady I realized she was the one who was walking along with us since last 20 minutes and was herself too, in search of an auto.I felt she was God sent and thanked god for that.
Intersecting the massive traffic, we reached the main road junction in some 15 minutes and while perching down on the stairway of the a petrol bunk where autorickshaw came to a halt, when I asked the driver how much I had to pay him,that lady interrupted us and replied with a smile that I had to pay nothing as she had given us a lift in her hired auto.I thanked her again and eagerly sloped my eyes in all directions to search for another auto which could take us to temple as it had again started raining thickly.Within few seconds there came an auto from which the passenger alighted and I rushed towards it and asked the driver if he could take us to the Saibaba temple.His disinclined facial expression showed he was not interested but then he thought a bit for a flash(maybe that he was denying a disciple to get to her Lord or may be something else) and suddenly his reaction altered to nodding for yes.I could easily pick out that he did so on humanity grounds and in name of god.I thanked him while grounding and gave him his fare.
We were just in time for aarti and there was a long queue for darshan,but again gratitudes to the God, nobody turned hostile when we entered in without following the queue as I was completely exhausted besides being wet and so was my little one.We located some space to sit and calm down before aarti which began subsequently in following 10 minutes.It was very fulfilling sensation to be a part of that half an hour pooja procession.I felt very peaceful and lighten up within.I apprehended the common conviction about faith. Because I had faith in him and desire to witness him, he organized the means to make it viable.If I would have had doubts in mind about him as I earlier had sometimes,am sure this time too it would not have been possible for me to pay a visit to him.
We left the temple and once more I had to look for an auto in midst of the heftily downpouring rain.By now my 1 year 10 months old daughter was utterly fatigued and was not ready to walk a single step.She insisted me to clutch-cart her which I did with lot of pain as even I was badly tired.I kept walking but could not find a single auto to go back home.God came in disguise of a college boy who was walking behind us ,he came to the fore and offered me a help to lift my daughter up to the road end.i approved of the requisite help and we walked near the road end from where the boy took a left way and we waited there again to get some transportation.Drained by the effort to stop every bare auto,erroneously I waved hand to an auto which was already having a passenger,but the lady from inside waved back her hand to me and asked the driver to stop.We were given a lift upto my husband’s office which was on the same route she was traveling.I could not offer her anything else but a very warm wholly thank and blessings.My husband drove us all back home and I recounted the complete episode to him and acknowledged the conquest of FAITH over every other thing.
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