We are bodies of perceptions. Whatever we see, there’s the
perception that builds up our attitude towards it in the latter stage. This attitude
when continued for a longer period of time, gives us a conviction, and is held
accountable for the actions we do in regards to the corresponding object. We all
have distinct perceptions, let it be any case! I always love to infer, but
unless we have a strong feeling or supporting argument, things can’t be
inferred.
I always believed in god, i followed him, but why? I didn’t
know! At times, i get distracted, and deliberately work against the norms to
see if it ever mattered to someone! Till date i have had no conclusive results pertaining to that. But I have an inference on the question that could
come up when asked the other way around. And simultaneously the former question
also met its answer.
In the recent past, i along with two friends had been to
tirupati, carved out of devotion and a vision. It’s the abode of Lord
Venkateshwara; a form of lord Vishnu. After having climbed the seven hills or
10 kms in a steep gradient, and standing in 5 different queues for around 4
hours, we were allowed to the main gopuram, or the entrance of the temple. They
allowed us to see the lord’s idol for nearly 10 seconds. It was exactly the
same as we see in the photos, so why should there be any craze? Logically correct!
But experience led me to believe in something else. I know a couple of
appraisal chants for the lord, and sing it during daily prayers, but infront of
him in the temple, i forgot all. I just kept on looking at him, so natural, so
beautiful, and so divine it was. I could keep on looking at him, and never get
tired. The crowd pushed me, but i felt like floating over an ocean of devotion,
and the last second when i was the nearest to him, my friend who has right
behind me, shouted in a typical south Indian manner “govinda govinda gooovvviinnddaaaa” while i was looking at the lord.
This last second made a strange bliss feeling run throughout my body. I was in
an ecstasy. Smiling, laughing, dancing for no viable reason. It was feeling
which could only be experienced, not told.
It was as if, people are calling their beloved! All the diversified
relations came into my mind just to one being. The way we call, our friends,
our parents, our kin, siblings, aunts, there are different ways to call them,
with a change in tone. But as for the case of lord, it all were encrypted in
just one call. It was equivalent to call your mother, father, brother, sister,
relative, friend, lover, anyone whom you believe to be yours. The lord was just
mine, and i was his. No other feeling with a greater remark could happen to me
in my life. It was just it.
While my way back, as every single person who saw me, i had
this understanding, that it’s god watching me through their eyes, after all we
all are a part of his. And then i understood, this is why people say, god has “thousands
of eyes”.
Brilliant, never to be forgotten experience it was. Those who
visit him very often, mark my blog before you leave, you will have a very
different and fabulous experience. To all those who don’t visit him, give it a
try, and go to him with my blog in your mind, I’m confident the experience will
be worth it.
It was time i had written my last blog, and this experience
filled my heart with utter love and ecstasy, i couldn’t wait to write this
blog. Hope you all were through me all the while. Take care, and see you soon,
as i follow up fast this time. With this I remain with a phrase very common
amongst us ( Brahmins from odisha, who are devotees of lord Jagannath)
“jagannatha swami nayana patha gami bhaba
tume”;
“ Let you be the destination of my vision everytime, Oh Jagannath!”
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