The Journey

I have known her now for more than 10 years. In my class, while she was pursuing B.Com, she was allergic to any philosophy I would talk about. She was mildmannered but believed that her happiness was in the world which she thought, then, needed to be pursued. She did that, and found the world (at its best) wanting. The world can make us happy no doubt, but cannot keep us happy. She decided to look elsewhere, and reluctantly attended some Vedanta Class with me, not knowing perhaps that the seed within her was just waiting for the right soil and environment. Her very good friend then introduced her to weekly classes on "Savitri" (written by Sri Arvind), and thereby brought her to the philosophy of Sri Arvind and the Mother. It was almost like a moth to a flame. She knew that this was where she belonged. She embraced it, and I saw her changing, growing, becoming more beautiful and evolving. Her inner beauty had enhanced her inherent pretty looks.
She was not very comfortable with the concept of marriage, especially the way it's done today, and done for reasons which challenge basic sanctity. She started meeting guys, but nothing really worked out for long period. Finally, she met someone with a spiritual inclination, began and got to know him better and felt somewhere comfortable than with worldly guys. They started dating (I am using this word for want of a better word). She knew that she was getting attached and she wanted it to workout finally. But divinity had some other plans, and they had to break up on a cordial note. It took her sometime to come to terms with it, since a spiritual person always loves more intensely than others. Of course, the world ignorantly thinks that a spiritual person is incapable of love and romance. The truth is that only he/she is sensitive enough for true love and intense romance. People still falsely believe that I am not yet married, since I am spiritually inclined. I have stopped convincing them that this is not true. Anyways, after a period of feeling low, may be a little lonely, she bounced back using all the spiritual insights she had heard and invested in before. This article was born after a long talk I had with her recently. She spoke her heart out, and I realised that she had far and far gone ahead of me in our respective spiritual journey. I felt that I was talking to an enlightened person. She said that this experience has taught her to be more loving to life, more loving to her family, more loving to her friends. Her warmth - quotient had gone up. She realised how important it is to have people, family, friends around you, and how grateful she felt for the people who had stood by her in this experience. I saw that she had zero negativity towards the event, no complaints now, she had digested the truth that there is only an ultimate good in everything that happens. She was raring to go with the flow of life. She had started meeting arranged proposals again. She fell but had got up more strongly on her feet. This is what spirituality does to one. It makes you grow in and through all the experiences of life. It does not allow you to get depressed and contemplate suicide which people divorced from any form of spirituality often resort to. Spirituality enables us to live life fully, since there is a clear understanding, deep sense of surrender and acceptance. Needless to say, she looked even more beautiful and fragrant when I met her next day at our weekly Savitri Class. I wanted to tell her that she no longer looks like Deepika Padukone anymore. She looks even better than her.