Profile of Parul

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

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Parul' body at St. Martha's Hospital was lying with her usual smiles and as if completely alive, telling that, "I am not dead, I am alive, very much alive eternally......!"
We brought her home after nominal Postmortem formalites amidst - chantings of NAVKAR MANTRA and SACHCHIDANDI Dhoon pointing to the Self and not the mortal Frame of dear departed Parul.
...Burning incense sticks & Deepak...heap of followers placed on this : prematurely withered blooming flower' by her officer -- students... unusually wrapped red marriage saree" (CHUNDARI)... divine at: mosphere-creating constant Group Chantings.....Pandit Omkarnath Thakur's Mira Bhajan "JOGI MAT JA6S reciting by sisters ......and Rabindranath Tagore's “SHAMUKHE SHANT!" Prayer-recollection by this humble Self---all this was the last "Send Off" of our Unusual Guest Parul--No, her body--to that Unknown land...
With the same continuing NAVKAR MANTRA and SACHCHIDANANDI chantings suggesting, "I AM THE SELF AND NOT THIS MORTAL FRAME... I AM ETERNAL", we took her to the Wilson Carden Electric Crematorium and after praying lastly, blessed her still smiling face, gazed her long petal-like divine fingers........and atlast entrusted her to Electric Closet's pyre of fire.....!!
My heart was still praying for the elevation of Parul's departed soul, externally and internally. Parul's sobbing brothers having her fresh Rakhees, Mukesh, Prafull & Niranjan who had Air-dashed from B’bay, Hyderabad and New Delhi as well as the relatives from A’bad and B'lore and a number of local friends & students--all had a number of questions and queries following this sudden rude shock. Sumitra and Parul's sisters-Vandana, Bhavita, Phalguni, Kinnari all were broken. Prayers and Chantings had handled them, but their hearts too had the HOW and WHY quest of this grave shocking and shaking happenning, which the Hon'ble probing judge has branded as "THE WILDEST WAY OF COMMITING MURDERS.” Even though they were given the reason of the invisible KARMA laws, all were asking:
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