Joy or Sorrow?Happy or Sad?
Happy or Sad?
Separations give different kinds of experiences in each phase of life!
Sometimes, separations are pleasant. In many instances, separations are indeed sorrowful.
At death, it's both pleasure and pain!! When my mother, who suffered from cancer, died, for a moment, my mind felt extremely light - is that happiness? When I went to the crematorium with my brothers and placed the funeral pyre on her, the intuition that I would never see my mother again unleashed a flood of tears from my eyes! This seems like sorrow.
During the days when my brother performed the daily rituals for my mother without fail, in the evening twilight hours, on the terrace in Kotivakkam, looking up at the sky and crying out loud: "Mother, will you flash a small smile for just a second between these clouds, showing your lovely smile?" That was sorrow.
When dusk settles, and darkness engulfs, just one star appears, wondering, "Are you my mother?" Is this happiness?!! She gave birth to me as a girl here, nurtured me, breastfed me, wiped my waste, and on the day I attained puberty, she gently interlaced her right hand with mine, silently telling me many things.
That same mother, when suffering from cancer, all that she had done for me - I had an opportunity to do for her. After brushing her teeth, bathing her, removing her waste, applying a bindi on her forehead, and brightly applying vibhuti on her face, I would stand and look at her for a minute. How beautiful my mother once was, now withered with just life swinging within her - at that moment, she would become lovely again. These were pleasant experiences.
Can one ever repay the debt of breastfeeding? The day I donated blood to my mother, I felt that this lifetime debt to her was finished... I experienced a pleasant sorrow that day. I feel like writing so much more... These days, I wonder if such a small mind can contain thoughts as vast as the sky and deep as the ocean?
The pleasure and taste in writing surpasses what exists in speaking. When what is in the heart comes out in the mother tongue, do I feel a mother's love in the mother tongue!!!!!
With love
Jayy...
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