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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. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFP8vrqruSb
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.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVnt9wkVfA
Thinking it’s in Delhi, Krishna agrees. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebBGOGmwAm
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".89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlCsoN12Fu
Krishna believed in being honest and never cheating anyone. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTs8F9xSa5J
Even though he knew his family’s situation, he was determined: “No matter what, I will never let go of my honesty and integrity.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyjtEtWOV5
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzfOHOxGwt
At that moment, his friend told him about the job in Delhi, and Krishna said okay.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPF1vKhg9M
A week later, he received a phone call for an interview from Delhi. The interview would be entirely over the phone.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMY2nR8q5q
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMxYB3HmPo
After the interview, the interviewer told Krishna “You’re selected.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7Clj5Iqlx
He told his parents about the selection and left to Delhi for the job.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQuOzizJwj
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOyywFMc8I
That person said the office wasn’t in Delhi but it is in Ghaziabad.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YA2tMTQU5
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm42lFFFwSM
It was Krishna’s first time in Delhi. He had to figure out where the metro station was, so he stepped outside. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUs8lQDa2fU
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvLVNKFdnz
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnc9lfWk2nA
For the first time, he boarded the metro train in Delhi, he had never even been on a metro in Hyderabad. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5muiysDybW
He asked a fellow passenger when his station would arrive.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtd5Fava1Fq
The man told him to follow the metro map. Krishna said okay and kept an eye on the map and the areas around him.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dgNgh7PP5
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. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4keVkYhzI
The person gave him a place name and said to take an auto from there.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9Zi1L3jei
Krishna took an auto and left. About 40 minutes later, he reached the location.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeukJyAT7L
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.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPQ6xPenOG
There, a man was already waiting for Krishna.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV22XBnVPoJ
Krishna called that man, and the two of them went to the room together.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcK8hkC5VrM
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHjctdWLSx
The next day:89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo03la7W0YQ
Krishna reported at the office, submitted his documents, and looked around the office atmosphere.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yTC0uRBKm
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKqMbVZrWg
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDXxWscH8b
Since he’d already come, Krishna thought, “Let’s do something" and stayed.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfJDCfWjMx
From the next day, he started attending five days of training. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDNeYeWJob
During the training, Krishna found out something "For the franchise, the company required an investment of 10,000 to 50,000 rupees".89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonwb9qHJEV
The person who had called Krishna to Delhi hadn’t told him this at all. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBQYfNtj4O
Now, that man was telling and convincing Krishna to pay the money.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuB3h1r0Ww
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBuLSW7s0i
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kBl3mm9RH
Then he booked a train ticket online to Secunderabad.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7ve7ezLLv
Just then, our Prime Minister Modi announced demonetization. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTupYZYfmYm
There was no money in the ATMs, and only a few banks were open, with limited hours.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuviOGP3MBE
Even in the place where Krishna was, no banks were open.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzaHq6ClXl
Out of the money he’d brought, he had only 2,500 rupees left. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekhasbNtw7
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKcRjcRK8L
The train from Delhi was at 5:30 pm, and Krishna left his room at 1:00 pm.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcD2FuTAlt
He ate a meal for 70 rupees, leaving him with 130 rupees. Auto and metro charges together cost 65 rupees.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6ew0Ewlou
Confident that his online ticket would be enough, Krishna decided to travel with the remaining 65 rupees.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CRHZntJ23
He reached the Delhi railway station by 4:30 pm. The train came at 5:15 pm, and Krishna boarded it.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4tCUn4fay
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. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2WUHRGHR2
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtz4vhmP8B
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vlDU4XEHl
The TC told him, “It’s not my problem. If you have money, buy a new ticket. Otherwise, get down at the next station.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNr5mlDWxXk
Krishna argued, saying he’d bought a ticket online, but the TC didn’t care and told him to leave.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYgNTgM8bp
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.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xqDl96Whv
Then he said what was the situation of him, why he came to Delhi all the story.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡconOa814xB
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLLKToHLDM
The train was passing through Maharashtra. Some unknown persons talking like "I will get down at Balharshah station". 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPenuTQEC9
Krishna remembered the name of the place, Balharshah. He had traveled by the Balharshah train to attend his friend’s wedding in Mancherial.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAG0aUlT8If
But, It would take until 2 pm the next day to reach there. So Krishna spent the whole night awake, scared.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQOw0e6LAz
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W9kfGT6a4
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFQVKsQYgd
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBONeCL1qQR
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.”89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjn97hCvv3N
He thanked the people who had shared their food and got down at the next station.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkrIwkBHHD
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsn69bz252f
But the ATM didn’t work, and another ATM had a “No cash” sign. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmnfcmu5Ux
Krishna was upset he was stuck in an unknown town, with no money.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnvMtM8UlQ
Then he remembered that he had a chequebook. He wrote a self-cheque for 1,000 rupees and went to the bank. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9GwTKw34Z
Weak and tired, he walked several kilometers to the bank.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLX6irype5O
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhztUDVGdNg
He tried his luck at a nearby ATM, but there was no money there, either.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvDVXPPTEI
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn0G2vrwy3
Krishna gratefully accepted the food and thanked the bank employee. He took out the cash and went to the bus stop.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbc22yN3pzF
There, he came to know that there were buses to Balharshah, so he waited. At 5:40 pm, his bus came. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEInJJQdrWl
He boarded it and reached the Asifabad bus stop in Telangana by 9 pm.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQ6Ke1UGGh
He found out that the bus to Hyderabad would come at 10 pm. He had dinner while waiting for the bus.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTkRh4nV0s
At 10 pm, the bus arrived. Krishna happily got in, sat down, and finally reached Hyderabad and home.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ59o10r06F
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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMfeDaBBOv
***“Om Namo Narayana”***89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBU5pJgKW8M
New life begins for Krishna with more twists.
See you soon.
