Destiny vs Destination

It was a long day. The sun took little bit to set in the west. What an amazing site, especially when it is viewed from somewhere near the seashore. Nature has set all her beauty in smallest things like this. Sunset, a single silly dew drop on a green grass, greenish mountain tops, tall growing pines. I have seen such sites in sivannah hills. People do call it as God's Dwelling Place. Now this site is somewhere in a place called God's Own Country. I always run to sleep in her lap. Mother Nature's lap. Visiting this place is always nostalgic.

But unusually now this time everything looked so new to me. As new as a new born child's face. The place looked new. The people looked new. I wish everyday should rise as new as this. Still it is an expectation with an image of today. Suddenly something itchy in the mind. The friend who took me for this trip, started talking about my physical difficulties.

Friend: So, you are not going to take up the treatment.

Me: Won't you understand my friend. These treatments are for those feel this as an ailment. But I never felt the same way. I never felt it is an ailment. I am living as it is. I felt it is the way I am going to present myself to the world, 'I' as it is. Moreover I am not ready to borrow and dump more money into something which is of no use. No medicine can induce my speed, No ailment is going to stop me forever. I am happy as I am, as it is.

Friend: But have you heard the doctor said. Your complete muscles may become numb and insensitive. Ayurveda is only natural. If you follow his directions, he will make you okay.

Me: Within two years. Right. That too, not a complete recovery. A 60% development from the current situation.

Friend : Yes. So what? At least you will not be like what you are now. Think it like this, it is only two years.

Me: Okay. Can you assure or predict what will happen tomorrow or the next moment, my friend?

Friend: I understand what you are saying. No one here in this world is keeping mum knowing that they are going to die one or other day. Tomorrow is unpredictable, so, why can't you live today?

Me: That is what I am asking. Tomorrow is unpredictable, but I am having today. Are you asking me to spend this today, with what I cannot make in the near future. Maybe I can make, but what about Now. If I am going to borrow money for this said treatment, what if I don't have a tomorrow. I am happy with what I am now.

Friend: But at least you need your health to do what you tend to do.

Me: You know my friend, my intension is not just pretension. I am okay with my health. See here I have a scar mark in my face, I cannot clear it off. But I live in my life without bothering much about it. Now I studied in my life to live with this pain. Nevertheless pain and my physical, mental inadequacies are facts. Aren't they? I learn't to live with these facts, living truth.

Friend: Is that not a bit negative friend? If everyone with a disease or disability starts thinking like this, then what will happen?

Me: Can they deny the fact that they are victim of that particular disease? Can you deny that you are living today? Living now is the Fact, not of tomorrow or the next moment. I realise this “Truth” thats all.

Friend: Don't you want to do what you are planning to do? There is a new venture rising depending on you. You use to say always,”Man should live a life of purpose. Now you are engaged with such purpose. But you deny living now”.

Me: Do you think I am denying my purpose?

Friend: Is it not? You are leaving yourself to fate.

Me: Never have I mean't like that. Destiny is something which people who are in others authority – say an authority of God or Demon believes on. But think of this thing, I take a train for my travel, I am a traveller, I know my destination. I know that train is going to take to my destination. it is only my mistake if I have taken a wrong train with a wrong destination. I am so aware that this train is going to reach the destination I want to reach. Now we both travel parallel.

Friend: Do you say that train fixes your destiny?

Me: No. Being so aware I fix my destination and train itself is my destiny. Now all what I have is a ticket to travel, I have to travel and I am travelling. I am so clear that I am going to reach the destination, because I am so aware that I boarded the right train.

Friend: What if the train, gets jammed or some sort of hmmm..err....

Me: Derailing – accident you can call. Then being train on rails is my destiny, what else I could say. But that doesn't mean I am leaving it to the fate – the destiny. If I travel without knowing my destination, then wherever the train takes me is my destiny. But I have boarded the train where I wish to go. Now all what I know is I am travelling in the train to reach my destination.

Friend: Will that be an answer to your family my friend? Won't they be waiting for your safe arrival at the destination.

Me: Hope. Hope is all what they should have. Even as a traveller, myself. Isn't it? Destiny is like that my friend. I know the destination, I know the train is on rails – my destiny and is going to take me where I deserve. But you know this train, I travel is so special. The passengers who travel will be in parallel mind with the driver. The driver – I mean the supreme consciousness is so aware of what and where these passengers should go and he lead them there. Like an express train in the story “The Polar Express”.

You know in this the destination, for me, for you and for everybody it is the same. The rails will lead to there only. You are one such passenger, I am one such passenger, many others too. What matters is the travel in the rails.

Little time before we spoke of de-railing, accident, the co-passengers, sometimes the theft, the troubles, travel suffocation all is in this game. This is the destiny. You travel in the train, get good co-passengers, you get a good journey. Fine then. But what if not. Whom you are going to blame. The Driver? Else the Travellers? You can ask only the conductor..ahh in India the TTE, to change your place and give. Yet, will your problem be solved. Your destination is the same. Can you ever run away from it? Ever?

Friend: You know to talk. But my question is about your works. What about that?

Me: Those are part of my travel. Isn't it? I am directed to do it. I feel hungry I eat. Sometimes or at least in my case, that is my passenger stop, I am not getting down the train, it is part of my travel. I am going to alight there. And yet, its not my final destination. I am going to get into the train. It is like another stone saying you have crossed this mile.

Friend: So are you not destined to success?

Me: Can you live forever in this world with this physical body with what you or this society calls as success? Can you? You see a flower, feel happy at the moment. Those are passing beauties of my travel. It is not the final destination. I admire and feel happy at the beauty of the flower. In my travel I think I can see something extraordinary like this. But can you say is there something extra-ordinary in this world?

Success is a journey, not a destination. Those who have understood this extraordinary truth will never keep it as the final fixed goal. An aware mind's goal or destination is entirely different.

Friend: Are you sure about this?

Me: Don't worry my friend. An aware mind will face the facts as it is. My travel is that. My destination I know and I am so aware of how my travel would be. I am sure what passenger stops I have to cross. I will aboard safely where I am destined to be. I know how far I have to travel for that. Now all I need is a peaceful travel till I reach the destination. I am going ahead my friend. As it is, as I am now.