Tuesday, May 14, 2013

SHIVRATHRI...MY MOTHERS DAY!

      Every body is talking about Mothers Day for the last few days but for me now on , my MOTHERS DAY falls on  Shivrathri day, the day we chose to worship LORD SHIVA on the auspicious day!
This day my mother  chose, to breath her last, ..with  Om namah shivaya, on her lips, in the wee hours, of
morning of 10th March,2013..the auspicious day of Shivrathri. !. There is a belief, I am told that, on Shivarathri day, the doors of  Abode of Lord Shiva is open. so, is that the reason my Mother chose ,early morning of  that day ?
         prepared herself, by uttering "OM'',and sip  as many  drops of "Holy Theertha",as she was fortunate enough to give birth to and bring  up.. sons , daughters, grand children, great grandchildren, sons in law and daughters in law , great grand daughter s in law and great grand sons in laws .My  sister, Latha and Devi my brother, his wife,who were at her bed side tell me that with out missing a drop, she sipped away  the holy 'cauvery theertha,' in the name of her kith and kin up to a full bottle !!! Perhaps,  she  wanted to  present herself  cleansed   fully, her mind ,soul and  body  to be at the feet of Lord Shiva,  though, she has worked hard enough, suffered enough, repented enough ,  to clean herself during the long years she,lived and
awaited for this day up to her ninety five years  of  "Good life''.
      My mind wanders in quest of answers to the connections of life and death  to divinity..  I remember, as a child I heard  the sacred   word "OM''  for the first time, only  from my mother's lips as she used to utter 'OM',
when ever she was ready to pray in the morning and evening, and then" Namah shivaya"  though not spending much time in pooja, rituals ect...believing in" work is worship"
  MOMMY...      MY mother, I miss you... of all the motherly things you did, ....i miss your long  query's  when ever I rang up to you, every week,. I had to wait for you to finish all your questions.. do you eat well? sleep well? how is the pain in your ankles/ do not climb up and down too much? Do you sleep well? after all this answered ,I get a gap, to ask you.. ''MOMMY... how are you?" Then only , of course you come out with  your complaints of body pain and....so on. Now I  realise that  it was  YOU, MY MOTHER and only YOU who asked me  the things you were concerned about and only a MOTHER can do it !
       I must tell you last two weeks , on Sunday, I sat near my phone ,lifted it, to ring you up, only to
realise, the bitter truth, that  I can not  call you any more, and get pampered by you ! but   a consolation that, I can think of you everyday  and your blessings  are always there with me!