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. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkDFiOsqv0
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.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjmOaEMNXN
Thinking it’s in Delhi, Krishna agrees. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwFy0sVr9r
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".16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmt0ihZVAq9
Krishna believed in being honest and never cheating anyone. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSJLKtTFrE
Even though he knew his family’s situation, he was determined: “No matter what, I will never let go of my honesty and integrity.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIfGcEtprD
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgNwh0dNdO
At that moment, his friend told him about the job in Delhi, and Krishna said okay.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TE3aQpiho
A week later, he received a phone call for an interview from Delhi. The interview would be entirely over the phone.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEoZuPP3m5
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZF4bG1AQBC
After the interview, the interviewer told Krishna “You’re selected.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3m5cSF4dhB
He told his parents about the selection and left to Delhi for the job.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NgG7LJxnY
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMnEWGAYih
That person said the office wasn’t in Delhi but it is in Ghaziabad.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02HcV1vtdb
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgHVg8gs02
It was Krishna’s first time in Delhi. He had to figure out where the metro station was, so he stepped outside. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhnmBaEn5J
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aDioHUwcn
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunY28BmTyb
For the first time, he boarded the metro train in Delhi, he had never even been on a metro in Hyderabad. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl51qGeStGt
He asked a fellow passenger when his station would arrive.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbNrZ7tGjU
The man told him to follow the metro map. Krishna said okay and kept an eye on the map and the areas around him.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLKGykZQNF
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. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oEQIw0fpN
The person gave him a place name and said to take an auto from there.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jzaK4iytX
Krishna took an auto and left. About 40 minutes later, he reached the location.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWJDQqHmaM
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.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiO2i6n6xq6
There, a man was already waiting for Krishna.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpSDTtqhd2
Krishna called that man, and the two of them went to the room together.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAlKPsDl7U
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ofhxe2PFP
The next day:16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLqJ4HYqW8
Krishna reported at the office, submitted his documents, and looked around the office atmosphere.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjkoPo1T1V
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJfDbzHoqI
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71ih4YjTsh
Since he’d already come, Krishna thought, “Let’s do something" and stayed.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuKQ0b47FZ
From the next day, he started attending five days of training. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTT63r3L9z
During the training, Krishna found out something "For the franchise, the company required an investment of 10,000 to 50,000 rupees".16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrn4QDqqTJU
The person who had called Krishna to Delhi hadn’t told him this at all. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEkQJ1NLm9
Now, that man was telling and convincing Krishna to pay the money.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8cOcpPXPb
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSO4jPA9xf
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOhdtKsSGD
Then he booked a train ticket online to Secunderabad.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodTQOryzLI
Just then, our Prime Minister Modi announced demonetization. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdX0HjVMvo
There was no money in the ATMs, and only a few banks were open, with limited hours.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNBFDcs8MM
Even in the place where Krishna was, no banks were open.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJ6oBCwfI1
Out of the money he’d brought, he had only 2,500 rupees left. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Tknhu3VF5
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJufg090Hib
The train from Delhi was at 5:30 pm, and Krishna left his room at 1:00 pm.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFp92eRDzJ
He ate a meal for 70 rupees, leaving him with 130 rupees. Auto and metro charges together cost 65 rupees.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQiQeuywl6
Confident that his online ticket would be enough, Krishna decided to travel with the remaining 65 rupees.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8o5qc6670
He reached the Delhi railway station by 4:30 pm. The train came at 5:15 pm, and Krishna boarded it.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILvE8twrWY
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. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GWN9cm8g9
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0Lm7inHUK
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKb0t90UM4
The TC told him, “It’s not my problem. If you have money, buy a new ticket. Otherwise, get down at the next station.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFy5IEqMp4
Krishna argued, saying he’d bought a ticket online, but the TC didn’t care and told him to leave.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GsSyo0ASb
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.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNmsWXBK5G
Then he said what was the situation of him, why he came to Delhi all the story.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOUWTOGqMq
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvhw11nRIZ
The train was passing through Maharashtra. Some unknown persons talking like "I will get down at Balharshah station". 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGGO3dBUqQ
Krishna remembered the name of the place, Balharshah. He had traveled by the Balharshah train to attend his friend’s wedding in Mancherial.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RYNxMi13t
But, It would take until 2 pm the next day to reach there. So Krishna spent the whole night awake, scared.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMXLNlboPs
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Gg590IVQY
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhONQLswZg
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnYpOGkfOO
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.”16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrL4JMZ8GpZ
He thanked the people who had shared their food and got down at the next station.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpUNMsbqJJ
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRhSXIhUoa
But the ATM didn’t work, and another ATM had a “No cash” sign. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUimGkWzYPo
Krishna was upset he was stuck in an unknown town, with no money.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFsSNce0xf
Then he remembered that he had a chequebook. He wrote a self-cheque for 1,000 rupees and went to the bank. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNybgBUzn4
Weak and tired, he walked several kilometers to the bank.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLatiz9pDnx
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPj2qbJUjo
He tried his luck at a nearby ATM, but there was no money there, either.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WrS0oG84Y
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvi6AFeZwh0
Krishna gratefully accepted the food and thanked the bank employee. He took out the cash and went to the bus stop.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cFF7wQ0rf
There, he came to know that there were buses to Balharshah, so he waited. At 5:40 pm, his bus came. 16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDrjiizEjn
He boarded it and reached the Asifabad bus stop in Telangana by 9 pm.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAgNwyRRLt
He found out that the bus to Hyderabad would come at 10 pm. He had dinner while waiting for the bus.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9F5RelMj2P
At 10 pm, the bus arrived. Krishna happily got in, sat down, and finally reached Hyderabad and home.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFV7BZPVv6
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ36tIi6UlM
***“Om Namo Narayana”***16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgIn8LeyWs
New life begins for Krishna with more twists.
See you soon.
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