(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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