Life’s Amazing Secrets: How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life by Gaur Gopal Das

Author:Gaur Gopal Das
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9789353052683
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2018-10-07T22:00:00+00:00

Higher Purpose

After setting the groundwork for forgiveness, I now felt that Harry was ready to hear the story I had promised to tell him. In my opinion, the couple in my story was in a far worse situation than Harry and Lalita. However, it is hard to compare peoples’ sufferings. That’s why I avoid doing so. Like many of my other stories, the incident this one is based on also took place during my travels.

I travel so often that sometimes I give a morning talk in Chennai, and by the evening, I’m speaking in Kolkata. One day I am in California, and the next, I’m in Cape Town. It’s only natural that I feel connected to so many different communities, meeting a variety of people from around the globe. One community, which I frequently travel to but will not mention here to protect all those involved in the incident, is where this story starts.

I had just finishing unpacking. I would be staying in this room for a week, which was an age for me. I usually live out of my suitcase because, like a shepherd, I am always searching for new lands to spread my message of positivity. I sat down cross-legged and was just about to start with my evening meditation, when a man burst into my room, letting his tears fall to the wooden floor. Alarmed at his overflowing emotion, I shot up immediately, my knees clicking.

‘She’s cheating on me!’ he exclaimed. I shut the door to my room and closed the blinds. My instinct was to pour him some herbal tea. My mother always used to say that when someone is upset, the warmth of herbal tea and a friend’s words can help to heal them. He sat on the floor with me. ‘She’s cheating on me . . .’ he said again, in between sips of his camomile beverage.

I had been friends with this man for over twenty years. In fact, I had attended an event as part of his wedding ceremony, counselled his family through thick and thin, but I had never expected him to say something like this. He was an engineer, had one seventeen-year-old son who was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps, and lived in a three-bedroom apartment—an ordinary gentleman, with an ordinary job, caught in this extraordinary situation.

‘What happened?’ I asked as I held his hands. His tear-filled eyes, quivering like the air in a heatwave, looked back into mine.

‘Yesterday, I was checking my wife’s phone to get the address for a wedding function we were supposed to attend later in the evening and I saw multiple notifications from a man.’ He mentioned who the man was—he was a senior member of their community, and held an important position of leadership. ‘I thought nothing of it at first; he contacts many people to invite them to work with him. But as I scrolled down and looked through the messages he was sending my wife . . . they were not innocent.

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