From COVID Anxiety to Hope: A Tale from Ancient Times
Gunjan is a 26 year old intelligent and educated girl. Gunjan loves her family and her parents a lot. Whenever the Karo Na wave spread across the country, she used to worry a lot about her parents that her parents might also get affected by the disease. Gunjan was working in a bank and she was afraid that she might get sick because of it. Due to this fear, when she used to work outside, she would not even come close to her parents. At that time, everyone was panicking, there was fear of this disease everywhere. At that time, there was a shortage of sanitizers as well. Everyone was just waiting for the Covid vaccine. Everyone wanted to get their parents vaccinated and the government also first got the vaccine administered to people of 60+ years and then to people of 45+ years. After getting the vaccine, fear of Covid was established in the minds of the people. The mentality of the people had changed after getting the vaccine. Now people were doing their work comfortably but after about 3 years, news of the side effects of the Covishield vaccine was coming on social media and news channels and the company itself had also admitted that it has side effects and it is said that many people have also died due to it. Hearing this, Gunjan started worrying about her parents. She searched about this news at many places but was not getting any satisfactory result. The results were mixed, negative and positive. Gunjan started worrying, she does not know whether this is true or a mind game. Gunjan is now worried about her parents. She was becoming a soldier and she felt that anything can happen to her parents at any time. Seeing Gunjan's worry, Gunjan's mother consoles her. Son, don't worry too much, whatever is written in our fate will happen and the decision of death is taken before we get life. Sit beside me and I will tell you a story. Which we used to hear from our grandmothers, today you also listen to that story, maybe your worries will also reduce. The story begins…………
In ancient times, there is a king Vikramaditya who has come out to visit his city. His eyes fall on a house where preparations for the Chatthi of a newborn child were going on. The king thinks that today I should stay around here in disguise so that I can know what is written in the fate of this child because King Vikramaditya could see and hear Chauthmata. In our Sanatan Dharma, this is the sanskar of the child. On the day and night of Chatthi, some person or the other stays at a place so that the mother writes a good fate for the children but the mother works according to her own will. Ordinary people cannot see the mother. This boon was given only to the king. When the mother comes at night, the king comes to know when the mother writes his fate that when he comes after getting married, the lion will eat him. When the king asks the mother the reason for writing this, the mother says that this is his destiny. If the lion does not come in front of him, then maybe he will be saved but no one can change what is written in his fate. The king thinks that I will keep this child under my care and will not let him do anything. The king should take great care of him. When the time of her marriage comes, the king makes all the arrangements for her marriage. When they come back after the boy's marriage, the boy and the bride are kept in an iron cage. There is a glass wall in front of it and there is a guard all around. The king says that as soon as you see a lion or hear its voice, you should stand in front of these children like a wall. Kill the lion as soon as you see it. As per the king's orders, the king had surrounded the cage. It was difficult for even a bird to reach them, so how could the lion reach. Now the wedding procession was about to enter its village, before that the sound of roaring from the city is heard. The king understands that now that time has come. The king sends some soldiers to kill the lion. But the lion is not visible, only its voice is heard. The king understands that now some incident is going to happen. Now the mother's fate is going to happen. The king became more cautious than before. Hearing the lion's voice, the boy says whose voice is this? The bride lives here. This is the voice of the lion. The boy says how does he look? I have never seen a lion nor heard its voice. His bride remains, that's all. I will make it and show it to you right now. The bride takes out the top from her bag and starts becoming a lion. And remains as a lion, see, this is how a lion looks. The boy starts looking at the lion and in no time he becomes a real one and loses the boy. Gunjan's mother says that's why no one can avoid having a son. Son, it's not only us who have got Covishield, it has been given to about 79% people in the country. So don't worry, what has to happen will happen, no one can stop it from happening and if you think good, it will be good. Our thinking works like a magnet. Whatever goes on in the mind starts happening. When we think about sorrow repeatedly, then the sorrow increases and when we think about happiness, then happiness increases. The universe gives us the same back.