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Dear All
In this blogging adventure (AGANDAM) - until now - I had been earnest to share some thing of value to the readers. Be it a poem or my musings, I had never tried to use this blog for venting out ALONE - until this point of time. For the first time, I am going to make a posting which is primarily rather solitary to cater to my "venting" out need !! If it still - by any chance - serves you any purpose, please thank Baba....not me !!!
Well, its quite a long story to tell you how I became a devotee of Baba all of a sudden....on that fateful day in Apr 2008. Perhaps it will be much more interesting to tell you how inconsistent I am in maintaining my devotion to Him but still, mark my words, He prevails !! To put it in different words, there were many moments in the past 1 1/2 years when I discovered that I am in good form (in terms of energy and mind) only when I see his photo / sticker some where in road or in some houses that I visit. I don't have an answer why some times (during my period of lows) I am not able to find him any where though I keep feverishly searching to have his sight....!! The purpose of this posting is NOT to justify or to establish how much devout I am but to share my feeling on how great he is.....!! He visits our minds and wins our admiration only out of his discretion (not sure If I can express this feeling in any other words !!).
Well, to put the long story short, there was a new Baba temple being constructed behind my home - which was an independent house earlier. I have been gleefully watching the demolition of the house, raising of this temple from the stage of excavation of the ground UNTIL today - the kumbaabishekam (or temple "warming"). Was in fact bit emotional thru' out the religious rites that were happening there.....trying to recall the number of times I have been paying visit to this very "site" during the construction stage. What moved me most was the manner the visitors to the temple today - I mean, the general public - reaching the function with a sense of belongingness in their best dresses and face full of smile.....as if they are attending some marriage or function of their kith and kin...!!!
A man who died (or should I say with lot of respect as "attained Samadhi") around 100 years, to see so many ... so many lives being touched and attracted even today... BY itself is a great feeling of reverence for me. Don't know how to finish this posting....!! Krishnaarpanam.....
Suren