His Designs - Stories for Children

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Radhe Krishna To all,

 

Once

God commanded his messenger (an angel), " Proceed to Delhi immediately.

The life of a middle-aged woman is coming to an end. Bring that soul

(jiva) here. " The messenger as bid by the Lord left for Delhi. On

reaching the place, the angel was stunned at the sight that awaited!

 

There,

in an old dilapidated small hut the angel saw a poor young woman lying

unconscious in a pool of blood. She had given birth to three baby girls

only an hour earlier. One child was feeding from its mother while the

other two were lying on either side of their mother.

 

The scene

touched the heart of the angel. Tears welled up in the angel's eyes and

it was angry at God for having asked it to take away the life of the

young woman. It thought, " Oh! How could God be so cruel? Unaware of the

situation in its entirety, He goes about giving commands. If I obey His

command now, what will happen to these baby girls? If the woman's life

is spared for another 10 years, these girls will grow up and might be

able to support their lives by some means. How could God do this

without thinking of these? Oh! I can't take away the life of this woman

so mercilessly! I am not concerned about the anger of God that I might

incur by disobeying His commands. I AM NOT GOING TO DO THIS. " Deciding

thus, the angel went empty handed to God.

 

It

begged God to spare the life of the lady and add 10 more years to her

life. The Lord smiled at the angel and said, " It is I who have

appointed you as the angel. Your job is to take away the life of the

human beings once their lifetime ends. And that's it! I have blessed

you with the required skills on my own accord. From your words I gather

that you believe yourself to be endowed with more intelligence and

compassion than Me, the Supreme Being. You dare to teach me how to

manage the world that I have created by my will! You have to suffer the

punishment for disobeying my orders. I punish you to lead a life of an

ordinary human being in the same city of Delhi. You will remain there

until you laugh at yourself twice for your foolish behavior! "

 

And

Lo! The next moment the angel took a human form and was standing in the

Delhi Connaught circle without appropriate clothes to cover its body.

It was the month of January and was cold outside. The angel stood there

shivering with cold. A cobbler who was passing by took pity on the

angel, bought clothes and gave them to the shivering angel. The angel

thanked him and said, " I do not have any place to stay either. I will

be very grateful if you give me shelter. " The cobbler said, “Don’t

worry! Now that we are friends, you can stay with me at my place.

But I warn you, my wife is very short tempered and one

cannot prejudge her action when she gets angry. She will not stop from

even throwing vessels. If that is ok, you can come " . The angel nodded

and followed the cobbler home.

 

When the wife of cobbler got to

know that he had bought clothes for the angel with the money meant for

buying clothes for the kids her anger knew no bounds! She started

cursing the cobbler and started throwing vessels at them. The angel was

also badly hurt. The angel laughed at its foolishness for the first

time, for ignoring the warning of its friend!

 

From that day, the

angel helped the cobbler in making sandals. The angel designed various

shoes imitating the ones it had seen in heaven. The shop soon became

very famous for its fabulous and rare shoe designs . Thus, 12 years

rolled by.

 

One day the angel was standing in front of a cloth

store. At that time it saw a rich old lady getting down from an

expensive car. Three beautiful young women followed her. The angel

noticed that the three of them had a trident shaped mole in their right

cheek. The angel immediately recognized them to be the children of the

lady, whose life God had ordered to take away 12 years ago.

 

The

angel went to the old lady and enquired if these girls were really her

children. The old lady replied " Not really! About 12 years back, I was

going in my car near Connaught circle. I suddenly happened to hear the

cry of kids. I went to the hut from where the cry of the children was

heard and found these three baby girls lying with their dead mother. I

had lost my husband and had no children. I adopted these three kids

legally. I have educated them well and they are the sole heirs to my

entire property. "

 

The angel wad dumb-founded. It thought, " Oh!

How very foolish of me to have analyzed the orders of the all-knowing

God with my small little brain! If that Lady had not died then, would

these kids be leading such a happy and rich life now? " And for the

second time it laughed at itself for its foolishness!

 

With

the iota of brain and intelligence that God has blessed us with, we

dare to question the very actions of omniscient Lord!

 

 

 

 Only God should

bless us with the realization that all that happens is by the will of

God and it is indeed for our own good!

 

Courtesy: 'Stories for Meditation' by Sri Santhananda Puri Maharaj

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