D E S T I N Y  !

Thodupuzha K.Shankar
 
    It was a pleasant evening with salubrious breeze  blowing so profusely everywhere.  A beautiful sparrow with colorful wings and a tiny beak was so happily flying upward and downward and in various directions with utmost joy. Sometimes, it flew down and sauntered slowly down the lanes  of the lawn pecking and hunting for worms or grains in the grass.  Suddenly it noticed someone dark and strange seated on a hefty  buffalo staring at it  a few yards away. The sparrow  could guess who it could be, but was wondering “why is  he here unusually  at this time ? Has my time run out and is he eying on me now? Is my term on earth coming to a grinding halt ? Has he come to take me along with him? I want to enjoy life for some more time” ! The more  it thought deeply, the more it became thoughtful and restless. An eagle flying aloft in the sky was watching the sparrow and wanted to know the reason for its sadness.

It flew down in a flip second and asked the sparrow,  “ Hi  dear, I saw you sitting so sadly. We all belong to the birds species and is it not my duty to help you as someone akin to me?  So tell me dear what is your problem and what I can  do for you !

 The sparrow then narrated the whole thing and after giving a patient hearing,  the eagle consoled  the  sparrow “ Don’t worry my darling friend. I will take you to the summit of a mountain and leave you there so that you can live there so peacefully and happily  as long as you want to and even his shadow will never fall on you, I assure you dear” !

 Next moment, the eagle took the sparrow in its huge bill  and flew so swiftly aiming  at the mountain. In a short time it reached the summit, dropped the sparrow there at a serene place,  bid adieu  to it  and flew away.

The sparrow  thanked the eagle and  then heaved a sigh of relief and said in soliloquy, “Now there is nothing to worry. He won’t have  any idea about  this place and I can live here peacefully.”!

Thinking so, it turned to the rear  to have a bird’s eye view of the ravishing panorama in and around the mountain and to find out if  there were other birds too  in the vicinity. The sparrow was shocked to see the same frightening  figure  stand there twirling his curled up mustache and staring at it. It’s head started spinning  and the  whole body shivering at his sight.  

Then he said to the sparrow, “actually it was from here that I wanted to take you along with me according to your destiny. That is why when I saw you in the garden, I was really shocked. But, the power of your destiny is such that the eagle played instrumental in bringing you here.  Now, come on, let us go, the time is ticking  out “. With these words, Yama dharma escorted the sparrow  to the other world.
 
The moral of this small  story is :-
The God of death only knows  from where and how he  should take one’s life at what time and how  to take a being  to the predetermined  destination to complete his mission.  Others have no involvement whatsoever.

     It is  unchallengeable, irrevocable  God’s  decision, beyond our comprehension,  par excellence !. In other words, it is only  pure and absolute 
 D E S T I N Y  !

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