This is about the experience, I had few days back. It was late night Sunday and I just left my brother at Kalupur Railway Station so that he could catch a train to Pune. Though the watch showed that it was nearly 11 pm, I was not at all feeling sleepy, posibly because of the rest I got during last festival long weekend. When I crossed Delhi Darwaja, I felt something odd. The reason was the unexpected crowd gathered around Delhi Darwaja. My instinct was telling me that something was definitely wrong.
Intuition became true when I drove my car for around 1 km. There was a guy standing in the middle of the road and asking everybody to make detour to the alternate alleyway rather the main road. "वहा मत जाइए आगे पथ्थार्बजी हुई है। कार को नुकशान होगा। कुछ कोमी (दंगल ) हुआ हैं " For a split second, flash of different thoughts came in my mind and a cold shiver traveled through my spine. I was thoroughly terrified. I had not other option but to obey what a guy was telling me. I took the alleyway which was dimly lit. Those, who have stayed in Ahmedabad for a while can understand about the risk of going on the road, which you have never seen. The roads of Ahmedabad city area are like labyrinth. You cannot risk of traversing the road, on which you have never set foot on. I had no freaking clue where I was going. My mind was completely blank by the fear. I couldn't even remember how much distance I drove with completely blank mind. Just then my car came to a halt at cross roads. AMTS bus was standing idle in front of me. It seemed like it had been hit by stones before some time back. All glasses of bus windows were broken. Suddenly I heard glass crashing sound behind my back. Immediately I realized that somebody had thrown heavy stone on the back of my car and had been successful in breaking glass of by car. I realized that I was just victim of what they were calling as "पथ्थार्बाजी". I was completely terrified and shocked. "What if there are more people ahead. What if they are pulling people out of car!!! " I prayed to God, press my foot hard on accelerator and drove as fast as I could. Again I had no clue where I was heading. I was just saving my self. This road was completely un-known to me as the previous one. My mind also went completely blank by the recent accident happened. My senses returned to me only when I drove for almost 1-1.5 kms, finally crossed the Sabarmati river and came on Ashram Road.
What was it, who showed me the correct path after I took alleyway? What was it, who showed me path after my car was badly hit? It cannot be my conscious mind as it was completely blank because of fear. Can it be sub-conscious mind? I do not think so as that was the first time I was going on that particular road. My only conclusion is that somebody was driving me. Somebody was showing me the path. In other words somebody was with me in that car and navigating my way out of that alleyway I did not know. It was entity above my sub-conscious mind. It is said that God is always there with us. On that day I experienced that fact.
On the following day curfew broke in the area in which I was driving my car. I still cannot imaging what would have happened if I got lost in that particular night and how much God had helped me when I needed him the most.
