Nature Is an Excellent Accountant
On events, learning, and the freedom of true surrender
At the lotus feet of Batuk Bhairava and Maa Tara…
When we look at our lives, we see a long chain of events. Events produce experiences — some happy, some painful. These experiences shape our beliefs, and our beliefs drive our actions.
We can attribute events to an astrology chart, dasha cycles, bhav chalit, karmic or ancestral debt — anything. It is complex, and our minds cannot fully comprehend how the universe operates. One can research for ages and still not find the true answer. So I will set aside the big questions — Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What will bring fulfillment? — and talk instead about something more immediate: the events that produce our experiences, and what those events are trying to do to us.
This is my understanding, and I welcome alternate thoughts, because I too am learning, evolving into a better version of myself.
The events we are given
If I look at my own life, many events have unfolded before my eyes — some gave me extreme delight, some extreme pain, and many kept me grappling with how to navigate them.
When we are extremely happy, we tend to forget everything and feel invincible. When we experience pain, our first instinct is to complain: “Why is this happening to me? Why is God doing this to me?” Or: “It’s someone else’s fault.” All of this is fair — we learn these responses early in life, from our parents, our teachers, and society as a whole.
But try this. Reflect on your own life, pick one happy event and one painful one, and analyze each thoroughly. What was the event? How did I act? What did I learn? Did I carry that learning forward? Was I clear-headed and making sound decisions? When you do this honestly, you gain a much deeper understanding of how — and why — events are presented to us.
Events are lessons
In my humble opinion, after a great deal of reflection, I came to this conclusion: events are presented to us as opportunities — to learn from them, to evolve through them, and to carry that knowledge with us. Nature presents them to teach us. It is our soul contract.
And if you don’t learn from an event, nature will keep presenting similar situations, over and over, until you realize, learn, and evolve. This cycle does not run on our schedule, and we do not understand how the universe operates. We look through a human lens, expect things instantly, and when there is a delay, we are quick to blame the planets, God, or the people closest to us.
But when you take an event as a learning opportunity — that is when the game changes.
True surrender
The second aspect, for me personally, is true surrender to the deities.
Surrender does not mean you simply pray and take no action. On the contrary — it gives you the freedom to act. Clarity comes when you leave your burden at their lotus feet. Talk to them the way you would talk to your mother or father. Share your thoughts and your weaknesses. Ask them for the strength to learn, to evolve, and to take concrete action. You will feel a certain freedom.
How they operate is their domain. They will act — guiding you through intuition, through advice from someone, or through a guardian angel, a person who appears in your life out of nowhere. Let them decide that. You surrender yourself to them. Do your actions with pure detachment, and leave the outcome to them.
Nature keeps the books
Remember: nature is an excellent accountant. It keeps a careful account of all your actions, your learnings, and how you work with the people around you — personal and professional — and it always gives you an opportunity to learn from an event.
According to nature, the situation you are in is the best one for this given time. It asks you to work with the cards you have been dealt. When you accept, acknowledge, say thank you from the heart, and then get to work — that is when nature does its magic. Nature is very kind, but it wants you to learn, evolve, and become better.
A calm and clear mind
In the end, I will say this: for me personally, when I went to the lotus feet of Batuk Bhairava and Maa Tara, they themselves taught me patience, surrender, and detachment from the outcome — focus on the action. They gave me a state of mind that stays calm most of the time; and when it does get disturbed, I leave that, too, at their feet — and the calmness returns.
A calm and clear mind is where you thrive, and where you become a better version of who you were yesterday.