Anything, absolutely anything, can
happen in Life! You just have to be prepared to accept whatever comes your way
and know that nothing is permanent – neither success nor defeat!
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Yesterday’s
conviction of J.Jayalalithaa by a Bangalore Special Court in an 18-year-old
“Disproportionate Assets” case, under the Prevention of Corruption Act, holds
an important lesson in living for all of us. No, I am not going to comment on
either the merits of the landmark judgment nor am I going to analyze the
political future of Jayalalithaa, her AIADMK party and the state of Tamil Nadu.
To me the singular takeaway is this: whoever you are, wherever – even if you are high, mighty and
powerful or meek, written-off and in oblivion – you are, your Life will play
out exactly per your cosmic design. One moment you can be an immensely
popular and powerful – seemingly infallible – Chief Minister of a state and in
another you can be prisoner number 7402 at the Parappana Agrahara Central
Prison, lodged in VVIP Cell 23, disqualified as MLA and CM and barred from
contesting elections for 10 years!
It
is this understanding – that anything, absolutely anything, can happen in Life –
that we all completely lack in our lives, caught as we are, in trying to make
sense of our own individual, inscrutable, Life stories and designs. Even as I
write this, news has come in that my wife’s classmate lost her young adult son
in an accident earlier today. And next week, on the popular Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) show, host
Amitabh Bachchan will hand over the Rs.7 Crore bounty, for the first time ever,
to brothers Achin and Sarthak Narula. The Narulas least expected to be on the
show. But when they did get there, they thought they will get to the Rs.25 Lakh
stage and then quit the game. Little did they imagine, or believe, that they
would hit the Rs.7 Crore jackpot and create history! So, anything can happen in
Life – an Emperor can become a pauper and a pauper can become an Emperor – at any
time!
Which
is why you – and I – must develop the attitude and temperament to accept Life
for what it is. The truth is that beyond human comprehension, there’s a higher
intelligence, a Higher Energy, at work. Different people see this differently.
Some believe this Higher Energy is an unseen, invisible Creator, a God – whose works
you can touch and feel though. Some, like Apple’s late Steve Jobs described,
say that you cannot understand Life as it is happening to you – you can only
infer that it all happened per a “larger cosmic design” by “connecting the dots
backward”. I simply believe this Higher Energy to be Life itself. The same Life
that keeps us alive. This Life is intelligent. As in, it has a mind of its own.
Which means whatever has happened, whatever is happening and whatever will
happen is per a Masterplan.
You
and I can’t ever fathom what this Masterplan is all about – not even in the
contexts of our own individual lives. The only thing we can be sure of, based
on all that’s happening to us and around us, is the fact that this Masterplan
has no flaws. Which is, we must understand and appreciate that everything that’s
happening to us is happening only so that we learn, evolve and grow stronger
from the experience. When we begin to understand that this is the way Life
works, we will get better and better with living, and living intelligently,
with each new experience we encounter!
The
best way to live, I have learnt, is to know that you and I cause nothing –
neither our successes nor our failures. Life is what keeps on happening to us –
from birth to death. Some of what happens to us, makes us exult, some of it
buries us under its fury. Whatever
happens, it is best to stay humble and stay accepting of Life – knowing fully
well that nothing is permanent, neither our successes, nor our falls!
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