Mother

5th February…

A day of rememberance…

Why so?

Vivid memories of the mother who passed away on the 30th… A long selfless and devoted journey… Being the consort of a great human being must have been very tough but She took it in her strides and made it look easy… Taiji (Nirmalatai Athavale – consort of Shree Pandurang Shashtriji Athavale) will always remain in my heart and also in the hearts of many of my generations…

I very clearly remember that in school, when I was in STD 8th, took part in a tableau competition… Was to play the announcer… Being a Gujarati and studying in a convent has its own problems… Pronunciations play a major part… I still remember my teacher sitting besides me to work on my pronunciations… I was not getting one word right, ‘Mother’… She must have worked on it for hours and got to make me pronounce it right… I was very annoyed at that age. Why is she doing this with me? What difference does it make?… I realised it later when we won and stood first in the competition just by 1/2 a mark and the judges appreciating my pronunciations… That was the material gain… But just a few years back I realised it’s spiritual importance… Taiji’s care, love, alertness and selflessness personifies the word ‘Mother’ for me today…

Mother the relation today signifies selfless love… The care, the sternness with which I was brought up is what I am today… My wife many a times tells me that you are a reflection of your mother… Yes, I am… I may not be able to explain it to anyone but every women will realise when she grows to become a mother and see her own reflection in her child…

Remembering all the Mother’s of the world and will always be grateful to them… Humanity thrives because of the Mother…