One day,
influenced by a religious guru of his community, a young man renounced the
world. Now renunciation is no mean feat! Eating simple, bland food, not looking
at women even by mistake, etc...This is what that life is all about! But the
young man did not mind it. He had renounced the world in the hope of seeing
God. But in spite of living such a hard life for five years when his penance
bore no fruit, he started getting irritated and restless.
But all of a
sudden his life took a romantic turn. One day, in the market, he unexpectedly
bumped into a young girl. Ah! The first touch of a girl after five long years!
It was like a shower of rain falling on a parched desert! The girl’s heart too
began beating for him. Both fell in love at the first sight! And that was it! He
left the ashram and settled down with the girl.
They both moved
to reside in another village. Working hard day and night, in three years they
had even built a cosy one room house of their own by the river bank. Every day
they would feed meals to each other with their own hands. Every night after dinner, they would also go
out for a stroll, hand-in-hand. And they were so ecstatic as if they had the
entire universe at their feet...and in a way heaven had really descended on
earth for them!
One day, the
young man was sitting alone on the riverbank with his legs immersed in the
water. It was also drizzling lightly. Suddenly, something crossed his mind and
raising both his hands towards the sky, he said – Oh God, you work in
mysterious ways! You claim that you can be found through renunciation, but you
actually reside in the hearts of the two lovers who have become one in love!
- Deep Trivedi
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