The Avatar says, "I am with you, behind you, beside you – all the time, all the way, wherever you go!"
A high-impact collision of a fully-laden tipper trailer with the stationary van that my brother Prajeen was sitting in, made it fully apparent to him that there is more to Swami's words than just a sweet lilt.
At around 4.00 PM, 11-05-2011, Prajeen was returning to the office along with his colleague and a company driver, and our driver had just made a stop at a red light at Al Quoz. Prajeen was in one of the rear seats of the van, without his seat-belt to be precise, and the other two gentlemen were safely belted in the front seats. After about 90 seconds at the red light, their conversation came to a crashing halt with a tipper ramming into the rear-side of the van with a minimum momentum of 50,000 kgm/s. It was enough to send Prajeen flying into the front. Whiplash is a very normal consequence to such situations, where, the neck is yanked forward sharply due to the inertia of motion, and you can assume the rest. Incidentally, Prajeen is currently going through a neck problem.
However, what ends up happening is that the van plows forward to the red-light post and further on to the concrete road-block beside it, after which it rolls over. The intensity of the collision can be assumed by gathering that it takes quite a bit of effort to topple a nearly half-ton concrete barricade to its side. My brother crawls out through a shattered side window. Our driver is still lying on his side with his seat-belt on, and his colleague has fallen into the well between the dashboard and the front-seat. They are extricated from the van by nearby pedestrians. The only injury to the whole incident was a concussion to the right foot of our colleague, which also didn’t require stitches.
Of course, the van has been written off.
... like the eyelid protects the eye. Jai Sai Ram!
Dear Praveen
ReplyDeleteThe families are intact, the van was completely destroyed. If instead the van was intact and its occupants severely affected, many families could have been potentially completely destroyed.
Existence (or God or Swamy, by whatever name you call it) played this drama to communicate a powerful message to the family of the occupants of the van; the van and the tipper were only an instrument for HIS message.
Until last Week, the concerned families were leading a normal life. This week too these families could have continued to lead the same life. But this week and ever hereafter the families cannot but be grateful to the protection received from Existence.
Why were the family of the Van Occupants alone the chosen ones to have the opportunity to express more gratitude to Existence?
The more you express your gratitude, the more you will receive from Existence. By making you receive more, Existence is expecting much more from you. "Much is expected of those to who much is given" as Swamy has said before.
Existence loves you and therefore has protected your families. It needs the families and therefore their chance to express their gratitude!
Existence wants all the affected families to give more, work more for the employer, serve the society more, treat their employees better; give more to employees and to contribute more to other's and the world's happiness.
As some said "You get richer by what you give and you get poorer by what you take from others". This is a time for the families to reflect on what you have unreasonably taken from others, and a time to think of what they can undeservedly give more to others!
JAI SAI RAM
Fully agree on the gratitude part. The receiving more is the difficult part. Sometimes, you do wish that you get longer breathers in between!
ReplyDeleteNo doubt, the incident unsettled us. Five vehicles of ours and our colleague have met with accidents over the course of this month. So, I am really scrambling for hard messages here.
Praveen. Any loss of money or assets is an indication for us to investigate whether the money we make is good money or bad money. Good Money is auspicious, sticky and earns more good money. Bad Money earns more bad money and you will invariably end up spending or losing it
ReplyDeleteI have lost a lot of money of late and therefore it is time to seriously think if the money I make, including my salary, and the earnings of my employer is bad money or good money.Maybe it is time to move jobs!
If five Vehicles have crashed in a month, it is time to think along the same lines - "Are we doing anything that is causing human pain and tears to others because nothing that comes out of human pain and tears will give us abundance in life!"