In a world filled with fear and prejudice, there once lived a witch named Eleanor. She was known throughout the land for her mysterious powers and was feared by many. The villagers believed that she was responsible for every misfortune that befell them - from failed harvests to sudden illnesses. Rumors and tales about Eleanor circulated, leading to her isolation from society. She lived alone in a dilapidated cottage on the outskirts of the village, surrounded by a dense forest. Despite the hardships she faced, Eleanor held no malice in her heart.
Despite the hardships she faced, Eleanor held no malice in her heart. One fateful day, a terrible epidemic struck the village. People fell ill left and right, and the fear grew stronger.
Face to Face With Krishna
Today Morning I got up early and saw Lord Krishna sitting in my balcony with a Sudershan Chakra in hand. I could not believe my eyes and thought may be it's a dream but HE was smiling as usual and told me my dear son, IT is ME only. I came to Ujjain for Shahi Snaan and on the way back my Pushpak (Chartered Aircraft) got little snags and my Pilot Arjun has gone for a routine check to Indira Gandhi International Airport at Palam.
Me: Lord I have read that YOU were pilot of Arjun but now you are saying Arjun is your pilot. I am getting confused.
Krishna: You are right Pavan, I was Pilot of Arjun Chariot only in Mahabharata to guide him and give him preachings of Bhagwad Geeta enabling Pandavs to win war.
As time changed Chariot got transferred to Aircrafts. After that Arjun did his aviation training at Karnal for getting commercial pilot license. Now he is my official pilot from last few centuries.
Krishna: I am just wondering why have you kept the airport in the name of some Indira Gandhi? Is she the Architect?
Me: No Lord, she was prime minister of India.
Krishna:
Did she make the Airport from her own personal funds?
Me: No it was Country funds.
Krishna:
Then why don't you name them in the name of Country Or CREATORS
Me: Sir, I am too small to reply to YOU. You know everything as for as I know YOU had answered Arjun for all his questions. I feel honored that YOU are asking me questions.
My Dear Pitamabar (Synonyms name of Krishna) How could you land at my place, is it results of my prayers?
Krishna:
You know I love yellow colour and when I saw from my aircraft the yellow flowers of Amaltaas spread all over your street, I could not control my emotions. Regarding your prayers, It must be the reward of that too.
There are no unanswered prayers. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Life is a mystery don't try to solve it , live with it. Life is not a problem to resolve. Trust ME. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.
दुःख में सुमिरन सब करे सुख में करै न कोय।
जो सुख में सुमिरन करे दुःख काहे को होय ॥ by Sant Kabir
Meaning: Everyone pray in bad times, no body prays in good times. If one prays always in good days then bad days would never come.
Me: How you keep records of human prayers?
Krishna: It is very simple, We have made a mobile app for rewarding human prayers. Mostly prayers are asking for more money & money, which get fulfilled by the system it self.
Me: If any body prays for satisfaction or happiness, is there any different software or mobile app.
Krishna: No, no it is all in same software. Basically it works on a simple Algorithm. Which is Simple law of Karma i.e. all results are reward/punishment of your own Karmas.
Me: What is new in that this is Newton's 3rd Law " Every Action has got equal & opposite Reaction"
Krishna: Have you ever thought, Who gave this knowledge to Newton?
Me: If IT is YOU, then why can't you all humans good instead of creating monsters in some humans body.
Krishna: You have asked a very tricky question, my son. This was not even asked by Arjun. GOD create humans but gave power of creating THOUGHTS to humans only.
Me: Does it mean, if we create Positive Thoughts only, there would be no problems in our lives.
Krishna; You got the meaning of life son.
Me :- People complain they can’t find free time. Life has become hectic.
Krishna: Activity gets them busy. But productivity gets them free.
Me: Why has life become complicated now?
Krishna : Stop analyzing life. It makes it complicated. Just live it.
Me: Why are people then constantly unhappy?
Krishna : Worrying has become their habit. That’s why they are not happy. They fear for some thing which may happen. Their thoughts are negative.
Any ways I halted here to enjoy the Amaltaas trees on your road and halted at your balcony to relax by looking at these marvelous Amaltaas trees and enjoying the chirping sound of birds .The glory of Sunrise making me envy that why should I not take a new birth on earth and enjoy all this for some time.
I got over excited and said: GOD it's a right time for your birth the sins have risen so high. The morals have gone at the worst. People are killing daughters in the mother womb it self. The illicit relationships are its peak, some people are maligning the holy relationships of brothers/sisters & daughters/parents.
Krishna: Dear Pavan, it's not the right time still. It is only 5467th year of Kalyug. Whereas Kalyug is destined for whole 5,40,000 Years.
Me: Sir, do you mean these type of sins are nothing.
Krishna: The people's moral would go further down in coming years and I or any other GOD would take birth to end this Kalyug.
Me: How more the human characters would go down my Lord, it is already at the lowest. Don't you read newspapers that mothers are selling daughters, fathers raping daughters, brothers raping sisters.
Krishna: My dear son Kalyug has lot more to see and after that it would be again a new holy system in place. Not only moral characters the correction is needed in humans too.
Krishna: Like WE created this world for you & giving you powers in solving your own problems and we made a rule book for that. Like Lion is Jungle's King and there are Jungle rules, which are being followed by all animals.
Me: But animals named Humans don't follow any rules.
Krishna: True, humans are the trouble makers for the Nature GOD. It is the selfish specie, who has destroyed Nature for his personal greed. Frankly speaking son, in my opinion giving brains to humans is the mistake of CREATOR EK OMKAR.
Me: GOD what about the rules?
Krishna: WE made rules and gave authorities to Panchayats (Village Judicial System) but you guys converted in to Courts.
Me: GOD we have Courts and we treat Judges as GOD who will do justice for all. That's why we called them ME LORD.
Me: Why do good people always suffer? If the judicial rule book is in place.
Krishna : Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don’t suffer.
With that experience their life becomes better, not bitter.
Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?
Krishna : Yes. In every term, Experience is a hard teacher. It gives the test first and the lessons later.
Me: But getting punishment from these judgements when one is not even guilty.
Krishna: It is again a cycle of Karmas, the litigant has to undergo this, due to his previous Karmas or the GOD has something better in place for that person.
Me: Because of so many problems, we don’t know where we are heading.
Krishna: If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides the way.
Me: Does failure hurt more than moving in the right direction?
Krishna: For a person believing in Karmas there are no failures or no successes.For Karmayogi failure is a learning step and make him more experienced. Whereas success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you.
Me: Sir, it is getting complicated for my little brain, can you illustrate.
Krishna: Let me explain through a case study.
A person is named Pankaj and a police officer is named Rajesh and a Judge named Dharam and a person named Chelaram. Out of these four persons two have to die, another has to add bad karmas in his account getting punished later, another person has to learn experience through hardships.
Police officer Rajesh has registered a fictitious case against Pankaj by accepting bribe from Chelaram.
Judge Dharam has reached the peak of corruption and general public is suffering due to injustice done by him.
Pankaj is surrounded by various fake relatives & associates, who are with him just to extract his wealth from him. He is not able to understand GOD sent messages and is blindly believing those bad guys by ignoring his real relatives.Pankaj planned a trip to Chardham Yatra with his wife.
On the other hand GOD knows that devastation is destined to happen in that area at that particular time period when Pankaj has finalized the stay at Chardham.
That Pankaj has to face the effect of his Karmas simultaneously. If GOD send him & his wife to Yatra they would be dead but his karmas are not for such punishment. GOD sends number of messages through to Pankaj through his wife. But Guy Pankaj becomes adamant that he would do this Yatra to pray & please GOD.
GOD does HIS trick and gets Pankaj arrested in a pending fictitious case through Rajesh.
Judge Dharam did not give bail to Pankaj intentionally for want of money.
During custody of Pankaj the the heavy floods come at Chardham and many lives ere finished.
Pankaj and his wife lives are saved, which are result of their Good Karmas. Short sufferings of Pankaj and his family gave them lot of wordily experience and gains in long run.
During his suffering days the people who were attached to Pankaj just for extracting money from him, became invisible. Now pankaj is left with genuine friends and relatives.
Police personnel who arrested him got Bad karmas added in his account. Departmental enquiry starts against him and he gets suspended.
Chelaram dies unattended in a government hospital by cancer.
Similarly Judge who extended his custody for want of money gets the death in one day by kidney infection.
At the end ultimately Pankaj and his family are living happily and are detached from selfish relatives.
Krishna: It is the result of one's own Karmas.
Me: Ok Sir, I got it but in suffering days how did Pankaj get motivated.
Krishna : His thoughts were always POSITIVE. He always counted the blessing of his parents and GOD. He kept on reminding himself, his mother's words that small problems are given by GOD to save us from bigger problems. He kept on praying and he had a faith in his prayers.
Me: I understood the case study well sir, but why did thousand of people have to die in the flood at Chardham?
Krishna: My dear son, you seem very curious. I told you life is a mystery so live with it not try to solve it. Any ways I would answer for you:
A. In business you make balance sheets and targets. Same way GOD has its own way of reconciling balances, some times to balance quantity mass deaths are required.
B. The ultimate of human journey is the death, it is more important that how everyone dies. This again depends upon individual Karmas.
C. You humans took un authorized control of Holy River land by corruption for individual benefits. Ultimately Holy river has to take back its own land and GOD have to justice for all.
Me: Do some people surprise you too?
Krishna : Yes of course. When they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me? They boast as all this prosperity is due to them. This Ego ultimately gets them away from ME.
Me: Which is better winning or loosing?
Krishna: These are relative terms, winning brings short term happiness and loosing brings short term sufferings. If you wish to live happily always, feel contended in all situations. Live in good relatives & friends company, do good to them, you will feel good by default.
Me: How can I find good relatives & friends from all? as apparently all seems to be good.
Krishna: This is where experience from hardship is required. Adversities are the measuring tools to filter out bad and good relatives & friends.Which I tried to explain in above case study of Pankaj.
Money is like Honey, more money brings more relatives who get glued to you with honey talks.
Me: How can I get the best out of my life and be good to all?
Krishna: Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Have self confidence and never hurt any body's heart.
Me: My dear Krishna ji so when would you take birth on this earth?
Krishna: I told you still time is left for Kalyug and further at that time to whom duty is assigned by EK OMKAR is not known to me. It may be any one from us to whom you say as GOD.
Krishna: My dear son, no more questions now, I have to rush for an important Group of Devtas meeting & lot of Gopis are waiting for me in Heaven. My aircraft has arrived, so I will rush .
Me: This is my last question, please
Krishna: This is a major problem with you humans, you always want more & more. I have to rush now, you can have answers to all your questions in Bhagwad Geeta. Still if you have some questions. Remember me in your prayers. I would answer as I am always present in your heart only. You have to just click the right button during your prayer and meditation to see me back, my dearest son. One last thing always LOVE your family.
© Pavan Datta
This is a work of fiction. No persons used as characters in the story actually exist and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Persons, locality, area, organizations, companies or products listed in the story are for the purpose of story development only and no actual attitude toward or connection with such is to be inferred.
Happy Reading & Keep Smiling.
My Parents(My GOD & GODDESS)
That Pankaj has to face the effect of his Karmas simultaneously. If GOD send him & his wife to Yatra they would be dead but his karmas are not for such punishment. GOD sends number of messages through to Pankaj through his wife. But Guy Pankaj becomes adamant that he would do this Yatra to pray & please GOD.
In desperation, the villagers turned to Eleanor, hoping she could use her magic to save them. Reluctantly, she agreed to help. Eleanor devoted herself to finding a cure for the plague, working tirelessly day and night. She used her knowledge of herbs and potions, combining them with her magical abilities. Gradually, the epidemic began to recede, and the villagers started to recover. With the crisis averted, the villagers began to see Eleanor in a different light. They realized that their fears and prejudices had blinded them to the kind-hearted woman she truly was. They felt guilt for how they had treated her and distanced themselves. One by one, the villagers sought Eleanor's forgiveness. They approached her with humble hearts, expressing their remorse and gratitude for her selflessness. Eleanor, with a forgiving nature, embraced them with open arms. The forgiven witch became an integral part of the village's community. She used her magic to heal, to protect the crops, and to bring good fortune to all. Eleanor became a symbol of unity and acceptance, reminding everyone that judging others based on fear can lead to grave consequences. Over time, Eleanor's story of forgiveness and redemption spread far and wide. People from other villages sought her guidance and wisdom. She became a beacon of hope, teaching others the importance of forgiveness and compassion. The forgiven witch's legacy lives on, serving as a reminder that everyone deserves a second chance. Eleanor's story teaches us that forgiveness has the power to break down barriers and heal wounds, allowing communities to grow stronger together. In the end, Eleanor's kindness and forgiveness transcended the boundaries of society's prejudice, proving that there is goodness in even the most misunderstood individuals. The tale of the forgiven witch serves as a timeless reminder that we should never judge others based on appearances or rumors alone..
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