Trusting the Master('s) Plan

Chances are that all of us, at least once every month, use public transport: a taxi, if in India or Thailand__an autorickshaw or a tuk-tuk__a bus, a train or a plane. How many times, while choosing these means of transport, do we actually stop and ask the driver or pilot to show us their licence? In some cities, with better regulation on public transport, the driver's licence is on display. Even then, do we actually study it?

We just go on with our journey concentrating on our destination and what we seek to accomplish on getting there because we 'trust' either the administration or authority that governs the public transport system or the driver or both.

The question that begs attention is that we are willing to trust implicitly, someone who we don't even know__the driver or pilot__with our life and our mission for the journey, while we don't want to trust the Creator, our Creator and Master, who gave us the right to journey through life in the first place?

Don't we often worry about a situation or condition even after we openly declare that 'we have left it to God'? Don't we think of a Plan B even after praying for a Plan A outcome?

These are signs of wavering faith and a tottering trust. That really is the problem with us humans. Our education has made us very logical and unconvincable. So, a prayer is only a poor veneer for our faith. Peel off that veneer and you can see people who are insecure, fearful and worried.

The next question is, did we behave like that on today's plane or taxi ride? Were we not submitting ourselves to the driver's/pilot's judgment even if there was turbulence or the traffic was chaotic?

The truth is we trust what we can see or logically relate to. Since God is logically unsee-able, we waver. And that is sad. In our ever-increasing craving for material outcomes and rational prognosis of every event in our lives, we have subconsiously started to expect God to prove His/Her existence.

The day we place ourselves unconditionally, like we did in our morning's train or bus or plane ride today, in the hands of our driver and Master, will we start enjoying this ride that we call life. And it is this state of trust in the Master('s) Plan, leading to enjoying the ride, that we call Bliss.

Learnings:

1. Why do we trust a driver whom we don't even know but doubt the one that gave us the right to this ride called life?
2. When we trust the Master('s) Plan unconditionally we attain the state called Bliss.