Guru Rayar teaching the art of patience!!!!

Sincere pranaams to all!

Over the last few weeks, as part of the various activities in this gigantic project, I have been observing that even small activities have been getting pushed and pulled along for no reason without getting completed till very late.

Some of the examples that has continously happened over the last few weeks that has been made to write this blog item are:

a) Even a small erection of a shamiana and pandal just on the eve of the performance of initial suddhi homa on the project site could not get completed till around 11:00PM the previous night when the proposed start of the homas was around 6:00AM the next morning - This got delayed to such an extent that we had to switch on the head-lights of the car to have some light for the erection of the pandal since it was totally pitch dark otherwise in that area at that time of the night. At least, HE had given me the wisdom on that evening to decide to visit the site the previous evening without which this would not have got done for the start of the homa to happen the next day!!

b) The engineers who were initially handed over the task of coming out with a site and layout planning had to be changed at least a couple of times since they either themselves backed out or had to be changed because of their lack of response or inability. This has actually led to the gap of around 2 months of progress in this activity....

c) The meeting that was supposed to happen between the aachar and sthapathi yesterday got postponed to today - Thursday 25 Feb. When the initial postponment happened, my immediate thought was that this was going to happen on a guruvar day - today being Thursday. Again the meeting didn't happen today for various reasons and it now has got postponed to Sunday, 28Feb.

d) Parallely, the architect was supposed to come out with a proposed site plan from an external view point by last Sunday 21Feb. I was happy that this initial version was going to be coming out on Guru Rayar's nakshatra date in this year which fell on 21Feb. But this in turn was postponed to today on Sunday. Again today, this has been the second disappointment and at the end of day now, I dont have a clue on when I am going to get this initial version.....

All these events that has been happening over the last 1 month, has made me thinking to whatever little capacity of my thought process on what the reasons could be!!! While on some times, as we are all normal mortal beings, frustration is at the peak on even these small things get delayed. While at some other times, mind becomes mature that these are tests that are coming our way from HIM to see if these tests pass our resoluteness in doing our part to see this through!! As the elders and learned acharyas say, when things are bound to happen in a certain way at some point in time, it WILL happen in that way come what may!!

At other times, I have also realized that these are possible events introduced by our Rayar on this project that helps me to build up my patience limit continuously - to ensure that these patience limits goes into my sub-conscious level for the rest of my remaining life in my other personal / official activities. I have always been an person with an expectation to get things done quickly and I sometimes feel that this is Guru Rayar's own way of teaching me to be patient and making it as one of my habits for the rest of my life!!! This would add one up to the already countless such instances that HE has guided me in an invisible manner for the past more than 20 years....

I continue to pray to HIM on a daily basis to give me the resoluteness that HE is testing me for so that I will pass HIS test!! As continued well wishers, I request you all to include this request in your prayers to HIM for removing the obstacles coming in the way of taking further steps in this project....

Sarvam Sri Krishnar panamastu....