Profile of Parul

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

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to lead a meaningful life by leaving their bodies (Dying) through such a "SAMADHI-MARANA" in her presence What and how much to write on such a whole world-enlifting compassionate Mother? Her unique, unparallel life story is above words to describe.
Several sublime thoughts enter and disappear in the shelter of such a supreme Mother, by sitting at the Lotus feet of hers and below the open sky. It is an experience'' to be in her presence.
Then, all of a sudden sparks a thought full of pathetic pain that I will have to soon leave this heaven-like world and to get back into the artificial world of our dealings .........! My heart becomes upset...... I do not want to go. Alas! Had there not such a world of our desires be made (by us) at all I Where does it have the love, the intimacy, which we get in the shelter of the compassionate Mother at Hampi ? It seems as if the people of that artificial world do not know this at all...... !
But, however, the responsibilities drag me, they compell me to go helplessly and reluctantly. I start to leave Hampi, but a firm resolve rises in the depth of my being that
"I shall come back here again soon 1 "
These thoughts get engulfed in the dense night... and tranquel peace again invades the mind...
N.B. - A few years later, Kum Parul, the author of this writing left this "artificial world“ on 28.8.88, perhaps to dwell in the shelter of this self-realized Holy Mother in her subtle divine form! - P.
PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR
MASTER OF STRINGS The rich musical tradition of India has produced geniuses time and again. One of the greatest musicians of our time, undoubtedly is Pandit Ravi Shankar, the Sitar virtuoso.
Pandit Ravi Shankar's name pervades the classical music worlds of both the East and West. Besides popularising the Sitar
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