Swami Subodhananda very often narrated to those who came to him for guidance the following story of Shridhara Swami, the great Vaishnava saint and a commentator on the Gita:
Spurred by a spirit of renunciation, Shridhara Swami was thinking of giving up the world when his wife died giving birth to a child. Shridhara felt worried about the baby and was seriously thinking about how to provide for the child before retiring from the world. One day as he was sitting deeply absorbed with these thoughts, the egg of a lizard dropped from the ceiling in front of him. The egg broke as a result of the fall and a young lizard came out. Just then a small fly came and stood near the young lizard, which it caught and swallowed in a moment. At this the thought flashed in the mind of Shridhara that there is a divine plan behind creation and that every creature is provided for beforehand by God. At once all his anxiety for his own child vanished, and he immediately renounced the world. Of course, the baby was taken care of by his relatives.