It is THAT day of the year yet again. We should know. Our blog began on that day! Yes, it is the Mothers' Day today. Our blog began as a tribute to Aai on the very first Mothers' Day after her sad demise, and it has been a joy, a sense of achievement, a degree of fulfilment contributing to it continuously, without fail, every day!
Aai deserves this memoriam. Like Papa, she, too, loved writing. Her poems have been published. Her submissions for the academic courses on Geeta, Sant Dnyaneshwar, Sant Tukaram were appreciated. She was a rank-holder in the final examination of each of these courses. Her students of the course on Sant Ramdas appreciated her inputs. I suppose, hence, the best tribute to her would be a daily write-up, right?
Parents continue to 'manage' us forever. Why, if 'father' is the hard disk of our existence, 'mother' is the software, right? Our 'programmes' run excellently and efficiently because of that underlying system, right? That debt indeed is beyond any re-paying!
As for Aai, we get in to this world at all because of her unbelievably painful labour. Literally. A generation ago, it never used to be the convenient caeserean section. Literally she would be re-born so that we can be born! Honestly, whatever we may achieve, attain, accomplish, is because of that primal sacrifice of hers. Never ever forget her however much the worldly lures ensnare you! Long live the Mothers' Day! Long live Aai's memory!
Pratima@Imagine the miseries, the worries, the tensions of the mothers of the soldiers fighting at the border, now that Pakistan has violated the ceasefire, and the battle has renewed bitterly!
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