Do you believe in God? One of the topics of discussion that I’ve always avoided is “The existence of God”. Having grown up in a devotional Brahmin family, morning alarms for me have always been the chants of my parents in a mini-temple inside my home. I have been taught to believe in God. The almighty. But isn’t it always difficult to believe in something that you have never seen or experienced or something that can’t be proved. But like any obedient son, I also started “believing” in God without questioning the existence and then started avoiding any discussion.
You doubt the existence of God when you see so many poor people around, so many wars and killings of innocents, natural calamities and there are many questions that you would like to ask that phenomenon (or person?) called “God”. To be honest, there was always a voice inside me that kept annoying me about my surrender to that belief of God till the time I encountered pretty weird coincidences in my life. This blog is about those two coincidences that answered all my doubts.
First one happened in May 2006. I was working as an Assistant Manager at one of the leading MBA entrance institutes in Pune. A typical cycle of getting into MBA is to prepare for written exams till November and then attend GD/PI till Mar-April. I cleared many written exams but I was screwed in interviews. After getting clobbered at all the interviews of elite MBA institutes of India, I went back to my hometown for 15 days for refreshing myself. To be away from the Pune world. I had no choice but to start preparing once again. During my stay there, I went to visit one of my friends’ homes, upon my mother’s insistence, despite knowing that my friend was not in town. His younger brother welcomed me and was very excited to show me the games he has uploaded onto his new DC. I was doing my time pass when suddenly he said “Bhaiya, why don’t you check the speed of Internet?”. I thought, “yeah, this might be the only best thing of this visit”. I checked the Internet and my jaw dropped after seeing one mail. It was a “written test” call from Infosys technologies. And the rest is history.
Second one happened in June 2008. I had just come back from the marriage of my elder sister from Pune to Bangalore. She had left Bangalore few months back after being with me for around one and a half years. I was feeling devastated at that time because I had again screwed my MBA entrance exams (I had even stopped collecting my mails from the watchman knowing that no MBA institute is going to give me an admission this year so late), I was working in a hostile environment (I was handling the responsibilities which were designated for a person with at least 6 years of experience in IT sector) and the worst was that my supporting pillar (my sister) has left the town. I didn’t have any option than to continue my pursuit of MBA and keep working in that environment only. Then one day, I thought of taking half day leave and came back to my flat. I was sleeping when the doorbell rang. I woke up cursing the possibility of having a salesman as a visitor. But to my surprise, it was an admission offer from IMT Ghaziabad. And the rest is present.
Many times I wonder what if I would not have obeyed my Mother and not visited my friends place? I would have got the information about the written test after at least 3-4 days of written test. What if I would not have taken that half-day from work? I would have got the information about my admission after at least one month of due date.
Two incidents that changed my life. Now many would call them mere coincidences. Maybe its human tendency to attribute everything that is un-understandable to the God. But I find it hard to believe them as coincidences. Too many right things happening at the right time (Right time because I was facing the worst time). I think there is someone up there who pulls the strings at the right time for you. That person can be of any form or may be even shapeless. You just need wait for your turn. My belief in that entity has increased since then. I’ve found His form in the Gods my parents have introduced me to.
I need His coincidences in the next few days more than ever. And my colleagues too. Hey are you listening up there??
