Profile of Parul

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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Meditations and Music. More so, all these she was pursuing with joy and great self-satisfaction.
Thus she was in her full bloom and was so much satisfied that she used to write and tell her friends and sisters that SHE WAS HAPPY, FORTUNATE AND SELF-CONTENTED IN ALL RESPECTS. SHE WAS ACHIEVING HER LIFE'S GOAL of REALIZING HER SUBLIME SELF THROUGH DEEP ABSORPTIONS IN WRITINGS, RECITINGS, REHEARSINGS, RECORDINGS AND TEACHINGS... !!
But...........But this blooming and blossoming of hers was not dear to destiny and our Karmic fate............
That last RAKSHA-BANDHAN : SHRAVAN POORNIMA DAY of 27th August, 1988...........Well before this she had mailed her last loveful "RAKHEES" to ALL her brothers. Mukesh and Kamlesh at B'bay had just received and had tied them on their hands on Poornima Day.......... myself was away at New York. Sumitra had sent Parul at I.N.Y.S. Jindal's to be with her loving sister Dr. Vandana that day. On way she had tried to book a scooter for her with Chi. Phalguni and had enjoyed her last peaceful 24 hours with Vandana in that calm, spiritual atmosphere of the I.N.Y.S. To return to our Ulsoor home on Sunday the 28th afternoon both were coming out. After crossing the first half road-divider and while even carefully crossing the second half with Vandana, first stepping Parul's flower-like body was all of a sudden plucked and picked up by Destiny through that WRONG-SIDE DASHING, ALL LAWS BREAKING & "KILLING LICENCE"-POSSESSING KSRTC COVERNMENT BUS...... A little knocking down and she was in Dr. Vandana's lap where she breathed her last......it all happenned like a stroke of lightening ...... !!!
I was in my actual morning meditation at the Jain Centre of New York at 6-0 A.M. of New York time and received a thun
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