A journey is usually something everyone enjoys, filled with excitement. But what happens when a journey is undertaken with fear and devotion? That is what this story is about.
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Krishna had finished his studies and he was working at a call center. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkG7q7FxYp7
One day, his friend told him, “There’s a job in Delhi with 1 LPA salary. If you’re okay with it, I’ll talk to my friend and try to get you a job there.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUi5DsDNsz
Thinking it’s in Delhi, Krishna agrees. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHr9i5TDaY
The reason behind for agreeing Delhi offer is "Krishna’s family was heavily in debt. He was the one his family depended on. Although he's father is working he would like to give him peace, and Krishna wanted to pay off the debts and buy a house where he could see his parents happy. That was his wish".486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuSXSzRku5
Krishna believed in being honest and never cheating anyone. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuXC9pU7rL
Even though he knew his family’s situation, he was determined: “No matter what, I will never let go of my honesty and integrity.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2uwJ2yjMC
To get a job in his field of study, he needed time and he needs to do some study related courses, but that required money. Although he didn’t like the call center job, for money sake he will do that job, some how the job didn’t feel right for him.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPcsuSfrna
At that moment, his friend told him about the job in Delhi, and Krishna said okay.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFgV1qByrO
A week later, he received a phone call for an interview from Delhi. The interview would be entirely over the phone.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiQppoONPf
During the interview, they said the job would be from 10 am to 5 pm, and he’d have to answer customer queries and help them and some technical work will be there that you need to handle. We will provide complete training on that.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvn1QUxBJZf
After the interview, the interviewer told Krishna “You’re selected.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pvoRhUDN5
He told his parents about the selection and left to Delhi for the job.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTA6rEhapDq
After a 26 hour journey, Krishna reached Delhi. He got down from the train and called the person who’d contacted him to ask for the address.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRTkDptghF
That person said the office wasn’t in Delhi but it is in Ghaziabad.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWj9hHBQPh
He was told to take the metro rail from Delhi to reach exact location, which was about 1.5 hours from the Delhi railway station.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3GKx3Ubqb
It was Krishna’s first time in Delhi. He had to figure out where the metro station was, so he stepped outside. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQ8wp3ONMJ
He went to an auto driver and asked. But Krishna didn’t know that there was a way to go directly from the railway station to the metro station. Not knowing this, he paid the auto driver 200 rupees.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXbRiAPpBn
After getting down from the auto, Krishna realized this and thought he had to be more careful from now on then.
Later he entered the metro station.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3L6zRBHHcR
For the first time, he boarded the metro train in Delhi, he had never even been on a metro in Hyderabad. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniTw2Hi3lT
He asked a fellow passenger when his station would arrive.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLPgqnwUdR
The man told him to follow the metro map. Krishna said okay and kept an eye on the map and the areas around him.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIlmxWqt4e
An hour later, he reached his station. He got off the metro and called the person who’d told him to come, asking where to go next. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEmJTVMcRz
The person gave him a place name and said to take an auto from there.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWQdjZvOcl
Krishna took an auto and left. About 40 minutes later, he reached the location.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKkBKrVPo4
He called that person again, the person said, “Our man will be there. I’ll give you his number. Call him and go to the room with him. I’ll come and take you to the office.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDr9jZNIzJ
There, a man was already waiting for Krishna.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPstC5AgT0
Krishna called that man, and the two of them went to the room together.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lnsyl5GtL
Krishna freshened up and waited to go to the office. But it got late that day, so the man told him to rest and that they’d go to the office the next morning.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSq1OzGvyo
The next day:486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3nlk7dh9X
Krishna reported at the office, submitted his documents, and looked around the office atmosphere.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLKRKfpJzi
But it wasn’t actually an office it was a training center. They were teaching how to set up a business, what you need, how to talk to people.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLPqzlNWGA
After the training, they would give you a store to run. The investment materials would be theirs, but the store would be yours to run, like a franchise.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtZYbrfpdd
Since he’d already come, Krishna thought, “Let’s do something" and stayed.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgF8d8cuRjM
From the next day, he started attending five days of training. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEHY3HSWoJ
During the training, Krishna found out something "For the franchise, the company required an investment of 10,000 to 50,000 rupees".486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNgsqJJXca
The person who had called Krishna to Delhi hadn’t told him this at all. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37nqWgHyXd
Now, that man was telling and convincing Krishna to pay the money.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBBcEHuaaH
Krishna knew very well his family’s situation and the debts. He didn’t want to take on another loan just to pay for this job or business. So, he decided to return home.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtqmQVGVFn
He told his roommate that he would like to go home to arrange money. Actually Krishna don't want to stay there but the person wants him to pay money. For diversion he said he will go home to arrange money.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhQAcISw0z
Then he booked a train ticket online to Secunderabad.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0cZ7xraGS
Just then, our Prime Minister Modi announced demonetization. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23VhJqLp8U
There was no money in the ATMs, and only a few banks were open, with limited hours.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPg7u1lLqD
Even in the place where Krishna was, no banks were open.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtbZSYPvaZ
Out of the money he’d brought, he had only 2,500 rupees left. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjpQVuY8aC
He booked the train ticket online for 800 rupees, leaving him with 1,200 rupees. He had 200 rupees in his wallet and 1,500 rupees in his bank account.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1XLOMcfLW
The train from Delhi was at 5:30 pm, and Krishna left his room at 1:00 pm.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWSHqZuVmg
He ate a meal for 70 rupees, leaving him with 130 rupees. Auto and metro charges together cost 65 rupees.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1ZQWt4Wpb
Confident that his online ticket would be enough, Krishna decided to travel with the remaining 65 rupees.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6nSvP99FR
He reached the Delhi railway station by 4:30 pm. The train came at 5:15 pm, and Krishna boarded it.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnM0Wcf8Jk9
Krishna had an online ticket, but the ticket is in the waiting list. He thought he could show it to the ticket collector (TC) and request a seat. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCna5BzYZj
Ten minutes after the train started, the TC came. Krishna eagerly showed him the ticket. But the TC told him that the ticket wasn’t valid and that the money would be refunded to his bank account.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bQz6d9gYM
Krishna was shocked by listening TC, he said the ticket he’d bought online is in the waiting list, and he didn’t even have money with him.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgHbxG4K7X
The TC told him, “It’s not my problem. If you have money, buy a new ticket. Otherwise, get down at the next station.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflug7UIiTO
Krishna argued, saying he’d bought a ticket online, but the TC didn’t care and told him to leave.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoQbzeV0CE
As Krishna was moving to the next compartments, he saw an empty seat and sat down. He showed his ticket to the people nearby. They told him, “This will be enough. If the TC comes, we’ll talk to him.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8cHq4byJ6
Then he said what was the situation of him, why he came to Delhi all the story.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJlyWcThfc
The passengers with him also offered some of the food they’d brought.
Meanwhile, Krishna kept thinking about his situation he was scared and tired.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXFFpmwx35
The train was passing through Maharashtra. Some unknown persons talking like "I will get down at Balharshah station". 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPeElA2XuA
Krishna remembered the name of the place, Balharshah. He had traveled by the Balharshah train to attend his friend’s wedding in Mancherial.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfU25g88hbl
But, It would take until 2 pm the next day to reach there. So Krishna spent the whole night awake, scared.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEC3SaOS310
The next morning, without even brushing his teeth, Krishna stayed on the upper berth, chanting “Om Namo Narayana,” as he had great devotion to God.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDVncwIgXV
He expected the TC to come at either 9 am or 2 pm. But the TC came at 11 am. When the TC came, Krishna had his eyes closed, chanting the mantra.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYQ9gmFtd2
The people who had shared their food with Krishna told to TC that the upper berth was theirs, so the TC left without saying anything.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1c5e7p8ZM3
At 1 pm, Krishna received a message: “Your online ticket has been cancelled. Money will be refunded to your account.”
Seeing that message, Krishna began to sweat with fear. He thought, “At the next station, I’ll get down and somehow make my way to Balharshah.”486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvAsoznkpx
He thanked the people who had shared their food and got down at the next station.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAKeW96UXz
The station was Chandrapur. From there, Balharshah was about 120 km away, which he came to know from an auto driver. Also he asked the driver about an ATM, he said it was near by.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wdDFeLgX4
But the ATM didn’t work, and another ATM had a “No cash” sign. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBTxXpn7q8
Krishna was upset he was stuck in an unknown town, with no money.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfeM6oYv8C
Then he remembered that he had a chequebook. He wrote a self-cheque for 1,000 rupees and went to the bank. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JCtiy7nK1
Weak and tired, he walked several kilometers to the bank.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzliItLpMb
Because of demonetization, there was a huge queue at the bank. He had to take a token to withdraw money. Even with the token, it wasn’t clear if he’d get cash that day.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMFPD8MjCb
He tried his luck at a nearby ATM, but there was no money there, either.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0gJ6Qjvpz
Exhausted, he stood in line at the bank. It took two hours for his token number to come up. Seeing Krishna so tired, a bank employee took pity on him, brought him inside, and asked the security guard to get him a samosa and tea.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU86BWQryNk
Krishna gratefully accepted the food and thanked the bank employee. He took out the cash and went to the bus stop.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6gJLMDiM4
There, he came to know that there were buses to Balharshah, so he waited. At 5:40 pm, his bus came. 486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2wothgLnI
He boarded it and reached the Asifabad bus stop in Telangana by 9 pm.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1qsZCqWfn
He found out that the bus to Hyderabad would come at 10 pm. He had dinner while waiting for the bus.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucnW7V2NQm
At 10 pm, the bus arrived. Krishna happily got in, sat down, and finally reached Hyderabad and home.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUYAD0E4kg
Summary: Chanting the Lord’s name helped Krishna, and he was ultimately saved by the people around him. God tests us, but if we keep our faith in him and remain honest and true, He will always send help during our difficult times.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP38YiZfq2w
***“Om Namo Narayana”***486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFDNVBJS1g
New life begins for Krishna with more twists.
See you soon.
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