Sometimes evasion comes more easily, delving into the past is most often tough because it brings in front of your eyes the wrong decisions you made. Hence, sub-consciously I have been staying away from this mirror!
I go down memory lane today to the days I had with my two grandmothers, Biji and Amiji. Both were two contrary personalities and impacted my childhood more than my parents did!
Amiji was my father's mother........a strong personality who had a solid following in Jammu as a pracharak of the Arya Samaj yet contrary to the same used a psychic energy to energize water which cured people of their various ailments. She was a bundle of contradictions on various fronts. I remember her teaching me techniques to remain youthful.........I was rather small and its all blanked out in my mind, but as I write some of those visions come back to my mind. When she died, the entire town was shut and she was given a great send-off.However, no matter how great a ceremony the body of a Soul gets, the on-going journey is based on one factor.......how much empathy and gentleness or justice has been applied in dealing with people closely connected with you while alive!
Biji, on the other hand, also widowed young was less powerful as a woman but dealt with life very courageously and brought up her four children with economic issues and social issues to deal with. She lived for her children and the Arya Samaj. However, she was a woman with a humble and simple demeanor, I saw her give away her house. to the kids, live in an ashram in Jwalapur. Her belief that the children would support her was ill-founded. It is difficult to even write about the horror and disappointment she faced in her life, particularly the last few years of her bodily existence....suffice to say it was a lesson which remains alive in my mind. I went to visit her in Amritsar while she was ill and hence back from the ashram. She was compromised by her children, there was sorrow in her eyes and her Soul bled. Both my grandmothers get a place in my chant every single day ever since I took to the Chant of Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo seriously.
Where these Souls are today....I don't know......but the impact their time with me made, remains eternally in my Being. Biji played a role in introducing me to the Vedic Culture......stories, knowledge et all
I go down memory lane today to the days I had with my two grandmothers, Biji and Amiji. Both were two contrary personalities and impacted my childhood more than my parents did!
Amiji was my father's mother........a strong personality who had a solid following in Jammu as a pracharak of the Arya Samaj yet contrary to the same used a psychic energy to energize water which cured people of their various ailments. She was a bundle of contradictions on various fronts. I remember her teaching me techniques to remain youthful.........I was rather small and its all blanked out in my mind, but as I write some of those visions come back to my mind. When she died, the entire town was shut and she was given a great send-off.However, no matter how great a ceremony the body of a Soul gets, the on-going journey is based on one factor.......how much empathy and gentleness or justice has been applied in dealing with people closely connected with you while alive!
Biji, on the other hand, also widowed young was less powerful as a woman but dealt with life very courageously and brought up her four children with economic issues and social issues to deal with. She lived for her children and the Arya Samaj. However, she was a woman with a humble and simple demeanor, I saw her give away her house. to the kids, live in an ashram in Jwalapur. Her belief that the children would support her was ill-founded. It is difficult to even write about the horror and disappointment she faced in her life, particularly the last few years of her bodily existence....suffice to say it was a lesson which remains alive in my mind. I went to visit her in Amritsar while she was ill and hence back from the ashram. She was compromised by her children, there was sorrow in her eyes and her Soul bled. Both my grandmothers get a place in my chant every single day ever since I took to the Chant of Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo seriously.
Where these Souls are today....I don't know......but the impact their time with me made, remains eternally in my Being. Biji played a role in introducing me to the Vedic Culture......stories, knowledge et all
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