Nostalgic moments - 23rd to 28th Oct 2012

I was in my village from 23rd Oct to 28th Oct . This trip was after a gap of almost 10 years . My village Kharanti , Aurangabad has been a historical place and was well known during the freedom struggle due to a lot of Swarag activities .

To my surprise , the whole place has changed . All concrete buildings with multistory houses . The roads too have been upgraded to pakka roads . But the overall environment has not changed . The canal, river , farmland , kaccha ghar , food ...all were so refreshing .

The reason of joy was also as my sisters too joined me there . So my complete family was there . This was the 1st trip for Jayanti to my native village and she too enjoyed .

Overall , we all totally enjoyed the trip and it was completely refreshing .

Link for the short journey

  https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117753428634401298613/albums/5804721168492551137

This Festive Season

Our situation on this earth seems strange , everyone of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay without knowing why .

Was trying to find the reason for "WHY" and in the process lost my most precious asset : - My mother

Why she is always in my mind

Because

• She was special
• Very very special
• Very innocent
• Simple at heart
• Unconditional love
• Unreasonable love
• Unrealistic affection
• Dream  high
• Unquestioning surrender to divine
• Celebrated life
• Motivates for smallest of achievement
• loved my singing , sometimes even on phone I used to sing for her

All has gone . Specially in this festive season , each moment is dead which used to be so vibrant "Only because of her "

Seems I have to start the process of "WHY" again .

Papa Travel

Have just came back from station as papa has gone to Kolkata , didi's place.

Back home , its lifeless without papa . His room is dark , no music , no spiritual chant , talks , classical instrumental ...all...everything is quite . He has been the vibrant force behind me ..always cheerful and although he never expresses , my sisters always tell me that when he is with them ...he only talks about me . I too have seen , he never likes staying at other places if I have not accompanied him .

Things have been upside down for me from the time maa has left , and papa has been the reason for all my aspirations .

He would be back Delhi now in mid January next year ....a  long time to be without him .

Shradh | Pitr Paksha Shradh

I was having a long chat with my friend on this period which we all know as “Shradh “ yesterday . A period when no good deeds are done and it’s said that any good act wont yield any result .

This is what I have got from the net on the purpose and reason for this period :

“The shradh fortnight is the period when the 'pitra' ancestors from previous lifetimes are able to approach the earth planet and their descendants. The pitras approach the earth once a year during shradh through Lord Ganesha's grace to get relief from their sufferings. They feed on the willing offerings made to them by descendants--or by forcefully taking good fortune energies from their unwilling or ignorant descendants. Clearly it is in the interest of the descendants to help them, and so help themselves”
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I have complete faith on my divine and so other than that , nothing excites me . When he has created everything with the same divine touch , how come a period in a year cannot be auspicious  .

Moreover this period is talking about soul …. Journey of a soul , which includes darkness and enlighten of it can happen only if its in a body . when it’s a soul , it’s part of divine and so all these religious preaching are just gimmicks created by the Pandits .

Its same as we try to do “Pran Prathistha” once a divine idol is set up in a temple . Its such a irony  ….. humans instigating Pran to divine .