A Mother's Love

I know this is not a topic I must be elaborating on, but being at the receiving end of the topic, I would like to dedicate this post to my mom. A mother's love as all of us have experienced is an unconditional emotion of our mother towards us, but what makes this topic interesting is the way she conveys her feelings towards us, its not direct, not understandable at the surface. Instead her actions are to be seen deeper than what they seem, they are to be pondered over to get the backstage meaning.

 I came across a similar situation recently that is an inspiration to this post. Recently my second semester results were out and I could not wait to reveal the news to mom. I contacted my sister and dad and broke out the news to them, they simply congratulated me and wished me good luck. But when mom heard of the news the reaction was disappointing(at that instant). I had scored the same SGPA the previous semester and she sighed telling me I am stuck at one score. This was not the first time she was reacting like this, previously in my board exams of 10th grade and pre-university finals I had missed out a milestone by a percent each time. She had pointed out those misses at first instead of complementing me on my success, and as I mentioned before this seems as a really mean, non-optimistic approach by my mother. But again when I got to think over as to why she would say something like that I realized, deep inside though she is happy for me she does not want to do what we call in kannada "attake yeerisuvudu" meaning boosting my ego by showering praises. Had that been done all those times mentioned before I would not have this passion in me to achieve something that will finally make mom appreciate me and my commitment. That desire is probably THE greatest driving force for whatever I am today(though not much of an achiever). And I owe that to only my mother. She understands us more than anyone else, most probably more than how much we understand ourself.

Another peculiar incident worth mentioning here. I am doing my graduation as a hostelite, so basically there are two things I hate, the mess food and the work of washing clothes. So I usually ask mom do all the cloth washing when i'm back home. Day before yesterday she got tired of her doing the work while I lousily killed time doing literally nothing!! So she vowed she wont be doing that anymore and wont care if I don't do it! I being my lazy self had a long "verbattle" with her trying to convince her to resume as before but didn't succeed. Finally I played my trump card, I explained how back in hostel I manage everything, do all the work and sarcastically mentioned that I didn't need a break and I would work hard simultaneously coping with studies. I knew she had fallen for it, but the strong woman she is, she didn't directly oblige. Instead what she did was a mastermind! She put the clothes in soap water telling me it would reduce the work I would have to do cleaning the clothes. Later she came up with this myth(not sure she came up with it or it really exists!) that wet clothes aren't to be sustained at home, it is a bad action apparently! So she went ahead and washed 'em for me. As silly as the example may seem its the mother's love I ask you to look into in the example, caring for her child and yet doing it in a way that wont him/her know. Her unbiased sacrifices and love are always to be respected and credited to her!

In sanskrit we have the very well known saying "mathru devo bhava" meaning "mother is a form of god". And in the context of my previous post, mother is one form of god that you need not find, because its there right from your birth. Keeping this in mind, see to that you don't hurt her, ever. And now that you are done reading this, go to you mom,bend down to her feet seeking her blessings and have a content feeling in your heart watching that surprised smile on your amma's face! 

GOD

I guess the title is firm enough to justify how enigmatic this topic is. A topic that has so many theories, so many conglomerated facts, so many inferences. I take a huge risk giving my own opinion here. Let me start off by making it clear that I am a firm believer in god. If we look at the synonyms the word has we get a clearer idea of what we are discussing about. A supreme power, A controller of the universe. These words seem a lot superstitious, but when we try to crack the meaning we may find some logic, some sense. We know the world as it is today but its origin and about how the nature came to such a beautiful balance and who is the macro-controller of all the happenings are questions that eat your head up, the deeper you go. Finally the answer to all has to be that there is some super power that is overlooking(in literal sense) upon us, and conveniently the concept of god was introduced.

This post is not about religion, its solely about why there is a need of belief of a supreme power.

An instance from the book/movie "The Da Vinci Code" gives a good picture to us as to why we must have faith in god. Professor Langdon explains that in his childhood he had once fallen into a well. It was almost certain he would not make it through that fatal fall till the rescue came, but he does. In the climax scene when he has discovered a fact against Jesus, he explains why the truth must not be brought out to the public, he says when he was in that well, he had no strength left in him and though he was not a follower of god he called for help and hoped that lord would come and extend his helping hands and save him, that faith he reveals helped him make it through that situation. There are millions of instances that can be quoted regarding faith having come to help of a person in dangerous, fatal conditions. So, though there is no proof of existence of god, there is simply no harm in having faith. Its just an image, a form of that you give to the natural energy that comprises god. It need not be what our ancestors have been believing in, it could just be your own creation that you may believe in because it is the belief that matters and not the form you believe in. 

People may find god in the deity of their religion, in their loved ones, in music, in their loved sport. And these people are bound to rely on these entities when in need of help. For those who say they are an atheist, they must realize that involuntarily they are attached to something in their life that they turn to when in despair. And this realization will only help them nurture their will power catalysed by faith.

So the next time when you are saying "Oh! my god" give a thought to this omnipotent entity of nature and respect it, you'll see a difference in your perception of life and its only for the greater good!