Thursday 16 July 2015

THE DEAR DEPARTED!

 (dedicated to my beloved AMMA ..and all the wonderful MOTHERS of the world)

It was around 2 o’clock in the morning on the 26th of May,2011….someone whispered in my ear, "amma is no more”…

Should I believe it or not?...............how  can my mother whom I had always wanted to be my companion …by my side, till the end of the world  ………depart from me or rather leave me in a dark circle?????

Minutes later,I had to gulp that unpalatable TRUTH…yaa…. A  PART of me is gone and the other part has to  live for the sake of those around it !!!!!

Three hours later, I was sitting all by myself in an express train heading towards Kottayam, to have a last glimpse of my  ‘amma’ in a state in which I had never wanted her to be!!!!

The train whizzed past leaving behind the destinations of many and before I arrived at mine, memories flashed through my mind, in a bird’s eye view. I tried to capture and re-live some of those richest experiences with her….but  alas! failed to  do so , since every experience in the span of 6 decades was worth living which could I exclude????                                                                                                       
Amma  was Beautiful. I always thought  that the 16th century dramatist, The Bard-of-Avon ,would have written, just for her, the following lines, “Age cannot wither her beauty, Nor stale her custom..”
She was a treasure house of LOVE..the more she poured it over us, the less did it  get  drained….I sometimes wondered how amma could give something which she had not received…….(she had  lost her mother at a very tender age ).One of the several occasions where I experienced this selfless, unconditional love was during the two childbirths I had. The depth of the care and concern she showed at that time made me feel as though  I was born to her again!!                                                                           

Amma never preached to us on discipline or values… she led us by example….every act she did, every moment she lived was exemplary…

I would like to end this by quoting a few   lines from a famous  Tamil song, which had touched the hearts of every  single soul that had heard it:

Amma endrazhaikadha uyirillaye
Ammavai vanangadhu uyarvillaye
Neril Nindru Pesum Dheivam
Petra thaai andri verondru edhu………….                                                    
 Eerezhu jenmangal eduthalum uzhaithalum
unakingu nan patta kadan theeruma?

 Mrs Bhagyam Venkitachalam                                                             



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