Flashback of a Spiritual Consultant
Going down memory lane, I’m finding it a really challenging task to begin penning down as to how and where I started to question myself about what is happening around me, who am I? It may be somewhere around the age of 6.
I was the third sibling, as in numbers (all of us girls), which I felt my mother resented, as they would have done anything to have a boy, like in many Hindu families to carry on traditions. I believe they all felt cheated by my birth!
Me the neglected chubby of 6 year was always dressed in all hand-me-downs, I looked at the heavens and felt perhaps like Cinderella? Honestly, I don’t remember!
Time went by and I was always questioning everyone as to who was this Divine Being called God, what does He look like?
Though now a days as a Spiritual Consultant I try to answer people query about God, but back then nobody was bothered to answer my curiosity for the supreme being. I just believed in this being as no one really could satisfy me with the right answers, not even my beloved Father who looked like a Greek God, tall, handsome, rugged and oh so loving!
Destiny had other plans for me and I felt perhaps I should enjoy the benefits of being a householder and off course life unfolded its events chapter by chapter and I’m sure the Divine wanted me to whet my appetite by giving me the gift of enjoying life to its fullest before giving me explanations.
50 and more years back my adventurous husband swept me off my feet and married me the ‘Arya Samaj way’, and we began our married life in Pune, Maharashtra in the Air Force base, as my husband was a young Flight Lieutenant. Life was of full freedom and fun for many years. By 1971, we were blessed to be the proud parents of two strappy lads.
Pradip, my husband, who has been extremely supportive, really pampered me, helped me to complete my graduation and encouraged me to take up work and at the same time balance my home life and the extremely hectic social and various welfare activities. All along I felt that there was more to life than just these activities, I was getting attracted to nature and hiked to all the various temples and was also part of the adventure cell of the Air Force. We trekked and walked to Gangotri and Tapovan where I met many self-proclaimed saints and like-minded people searching for Paradise. Reaching Tapovan above the River Gangotri, I felt I was nearest to God as I could almost touch the sky, bluest of blue with the purest of breeze blowing. I really envy the Gods for being in such celestial surroundings.
To be continued…