One advice that we heard many times from Srila Sridhar Maharaj was, "Wait and see."
Srila Govinda Maharaj considered it such an important advice that he had it printed and posted around the Math in Kolkata and it was of course his own advice to us and certainly his own practice.
In my own service life and indeed all other aspects of my life this advice has served me well, whenever I have been able to follow it. I say that because being the foolish fellow that I so often am, I have many times reacted to any given situation with a knee jerk response indicitive of one who is not self-controlled.
And the result? Well I'm sure I don't really have to say that more often than not the outcome has been less than auspicious if not completely disasterous.
Especially today with our immeadiate response lifestyle (you can reply to a message from someone the other side of the world in a few moments now through the media of email, text and instant messaging) we need to be even more self-controlled and stay that itchy keyboard hand!
Wait and see!
When we do follow this simple yet profound advice miraculous things can happen and sometimes without any need to even engage directly, the solution presents itself.
Wait and See!
If we have faith that the Lord is in control of everything and that He has my best interest at heart then we can wait, can't we?
Wait and See!
A little introspection and prayer before we decide what to do can never be a bad thing.
Then we can think, everything will be okay, just wait and see!
