Profile of Parul

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

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'RAHNA NAHIN DESH BIRANA HAI ..." : THE LAND AFAR
Parul accompanied me at several places in India, but she hardly inclined even to 'visit' foreign countries for concerts or sightseeing purposes apart from her above-mentioned unwillingness to settle there. During the course of my six threefold concert tours abroad, Sumitra accompanied once, youngest little singing-speakingdancing daughter Chi. Kinnari twice, but Parul never! Only once and that too out of her inquisitiveness and quest for knowledge, she had intended to acquire informations from a country which is famous for oriental Jainological studies and had asked me, "Bapu ! will you take me to Germany ?
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And with all genuine eagerness I had promised her to definetely take her once, but it didn't materialise at all ! It was a coincidence that the day I was scheduled to depart for Germany and Holland from New York, she died in accident and I had to divert my air-dash back to Bangalore.
It was also indicative that her last talk with me on Trunk Call in U.S.A. from India before her death, was in connection with my programmes in Germany. She had reported of having received my incoming Trunk Calls from Germany at Bangalore and had conveyed me the messages.
Before I could visit Germany, a Land of Learning equally of interest to Parul and myself both, she had left for some unknown Land of still higher Learnings in the other world on 28th August 1988. leaving all associations of this transitory world in which she had lived unattached fulfilling her gigantic tasks in short span of her life. It seemed, she lived in letter and spirit the Bhajans of Great Mystics Kabir and Anandaghan, which she liked and used to sing :
"HARI BIN TERO, MERE MANVA, APNA KOI NAHI...." "AB HAM AMAR BHAYE, NA MARENGE ...." ,,RAHNA NAHIN, DESH BIRANA HAI "
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