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G ita every day; but off course down from our mighty exotic life style
that was a different time.
and utterly unprepared for the basic life
of sustenance, deprived of the usual
luxuries of life we have gotten used to.
Undoubtedly it was tough for me, I
mean, to even think of following in his Now, there is a dire need of evaluation of
footsteps, but I always had the feeling our real needs in life; the need of
that he did honestly try to nurture me in support and understanding from our
his own ways imparting his realization close relations to meet our emotional
and trying to tend to my tender roots. n e e d s , t h e n e e d f o r d e r i v i n g
His sincerity and persistence was the contentment from a simpler way of
kind of selessness I rarely came across living, engaging in understanding the
in my later life, generations of parental ideology of our forefathers that could
M y grandfather used gures after him simply thrived on give them so much strength of mind to
excess of indulgence, anxiety, utter
believe in peaceful harmonious
to say,” aim for the
sky if you wish, but
were either excessively emotional and
extravagance.
make sure your roots are deep confusion and indecisiveness. They e x i ste n ce e v e n w i t h o u t m u c h
and on rm grounds”. He would paranoid or heartlessly rigid and
pay a visit, walking all the way schizoid. We have the intelligence and the ardor
to strive for new horizons. We just don't
from his house every Sunday to
Whatever may be the reason for it, have the experience of a life which can
make me understand the
blame it on the drastically changing be more sustainable at the onset of any
Mahabharata and a bit of
societal equations or evolving and disaster and that's how I remembered
Sanskrit. He even taught me to be
more demanding needs of life, if you my grand father and his zeal to impart
frugal in life, to learn to invest may, the new generations that the basic skills of life that can at least
The Lost money and save a part of my followed were fast drifting away from give me an open mind to adopt to any
income, and leisure for him was
our core value system. surprises that my world could throw at
gaining knowledge by reading
World our scriptures and classics, Now, as we stand facing an invisible me. I wonder how loved we felt when we
listening to good music; with a terror that is threatening to wipe out all cousins gathered around our
fair amount of physical activity. our existence and everything that we so grandmother in the late evenings to
Anindita Bose He lived till the age of 94; always dearly value, we are so perplexed and listen to stories when there was a power
psychological counsellor tending to his own needs, never overwhelmed that we dare not look at cut. I'm sure we can feel it now too, if
aninditab.0@gmail.com only we decide to give each other that
ecstatic with joy or down with the bare reality that is taunting us. We
remorse, believing in simple are simply oating in midair, tumbling time, away from our social media
living and reciting the Bhagavat devices.
