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Germany, Holland and England. | Air-dashed and returned to Bangalore only to see her blossoming and flower-like blooming body without that light, that spirit within..........And though it seemed to be as if she was completely alive and serenely smiling as usual when I saw her lying at St. Martha's Hospital in her unexpected, prematured, eternal peace and sleep.......!! Amidst only a few formalitises and constant chantings around her flower-bedecked body, I and my deeply shocked sorrowing family members and a flock of Parul's friends and admirers, performed her last rites at our Ulsoor residence and Wilson Garden Electric Crematorium. Chantings and Prayers and Meditations were the only "efforts" that were left for us to be performed for this unusual Guest of 25 Years, who never believed in taking anything from us, but only in Giving and Giving--materially, Culturally as well as Spiritually!
. With inner blessings I blessed her body with my hands on her vast forehead and.. .lastly put her on the Electric Pyre Stretcher which pushed her in side the fire....... the door was closed and it seemed as if something was greatly lost for ever! This sort of her 'SEND OFF' (!) was in our fate where I had to bless her instoad har her marriage-departure.......! Strange are the ways of Destiny and Karmas....... I was reminded by an associate of Sri J. Krishnamurthy, whose philosophy was loved so mach by Parul, that DEATH COMES AT ANY TIME, ANY PLACE TO ANYBODY AND ONE MUST REMAIN READY TO DEPART FROM ONE'S NEAR AND DEAR ONES. This was clearly evident in Parul's case. Destiny stretched her away from us, but not the Divinity. Her body passed away from us like a fres flair of Air, as the City Tab Editor has put in the Tributes to her, but her Divine Spirit-especially the Musical, Literary and philosophical Spirit very much lived with us throughout this year. We not only witnessed her showering her love upon us, but also guiding and dictating our ways of evolution, well-being and seekings. Crystally evident was her presence in our Aspirations, Prayers and Meditations.
