Sometimes in life, it’s just best to go with the flow, instead of thinking and analyzing too much. Sometimes, it’s good to follow your very gut feeling, your inner instinct and have faith in it. You will realize with time that whatever happens, happens for the best

There was this one late evening, me and my mother were going back home from a meeting at the Art of Living center, Jaipur. There was joy and enthusiasm in the air, as Sri Sri was to visit Jaipur (a city in India) and there was full-fledged work going on for the same. Banners & hoarding had been put across the city. While driving, we came across a circle and began looking for the event banner (though I had already seen it at many different places). I could only see one big hoarding of some FM channel, but my mother saw the one for our AOL event, with Guruji’s picture on it. This led to an argument between us. I was telling her that there was no hoarding there, while she said there was one! By then, we had already gone half a km away from the circle, and were on the main road. My mother was still adamant on showing me the hoarding and told me to stop the car. So I parked the car at the side, though that was a pretty narrow road and only one vehicle could pass at a time, so I parked in front of someone’s house. Then we got down, went closer to the hoarding location, saw it properly and then returned. All this was happening somewhere close to 10 pm. Till now, everything sounds so meaningless to you right? Firstly, wanting to see a hoarding which we have already seen before, then arguing over it, and then literally getting down the car to see it, that too at 10 pm at night! I was not able to understand the purpose of this entire episode. I did not see any meaning or sense in it. But just then, everything started making sense. Just as I parked the car and got down, something had happened. There was this big SUV going through that road. It passed by at a very high speed and the driver was extremely rash in his driving. Behind the SUV, there were two police vans, driving at almost the same speed. Considering the narrow width of the road, had we passed by that road and not taken the diversion to see the hoarding, there would have been a very high probability of an accident, as the cars passed by at such high speed. There would have been immense damage caused to our car as well as injuries borne by us. Later on, I also got to know that the SUV had banged into a divider, just a little ahead from where we were. There had been a strong meaning behind this entire episode, which seemed pretty much meaningless at the start. It was all for a cause, and for a good cause. It happened to save us from the possibility of a bad accident. Sometimes in life, it’s just best to go with the flow, instead of thinking and analyzing too much. Sometimes, it’s good to follow your very gut feeling, your inner instinct and have faith in it. You will realize with time that whatever happens, happens for the best, and I can say this with experience. It was this incident which made me believe in the truest sense that I am being taken care of. Jai Guru Dev.

- Pragya Chauhan