on wishes unfulfilled - Me, My Guru

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పుత్రోత్సాహము తండ్రికి  పుత్రుడుజన్మించినపుడే పుట్టదు 
జనులా పుత్రుని కనుగొని పొగడగ పుత్రోత్సాహము పొందుర సుమతి .

It means :
 
A father doesn’t get the joy of ‘son’s birth’ when he is born. He gets it when people recognise his son (means when he becomes something worth the name) and praise him! 

It is worth the wait-trust me; you’ll thank your stars for this wait”

When she finished we were moved. I am not much of kid-person as already mentioned couple of times. But even I felt ‘joy of raising a great child’ through her explanation. Those of us who had children wished we had heard her out before conceiving. Maybe, even we would have begotten ‘gem of human beings’. It was not to be. Alas! But never mind, we would certainly encourage all youngsters to learn reiki and do regularly before going for a kid. We want strong, intelligent youth for future of India and the world at large. We can’t give birth like some cattle. We were lost in our ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’. Our thoughts engaged our emotions for a long time to come.

That girl with teary eyes simply said “Thank-you Guruji. I would rather go childless than beget an asura like Ravana or a terrorist. I would rather wait, do penance of every kind, empty my mind of all negative emotions and thoughts and turn this body into a holy temple that can house a holy soul in it. Now, I know why ‘womb’ is called ‘garbha’ in vernacular language. Our sanctum sanctorum is called ‘Garbha Gudi’. It is also a womb that envelops the Divine in it. I remember you explaining all that in one of my initial classes. But I had forgotten as I didn’t find it relevant to my then problems. Now I recollect and understand it too! Thank you! Knowing this I can never go into depression. My body is not a sex symbol or a child-bearing machine. It is pure and divine vehicle that is to become a passage to a divine soul into this world. Now I see!” so saying she took our Guruji’s blessings and left with tear filled eyes. She came with tears in her eyes and left with tears in her eyes. The difference being when she came she was in intense pain and while going, her tears rolled out of knowing, gratitude and blessing!

We knew she would do well! She would be fine! We sent reiki out of love to her now! Bless her we learnt so much about the most mundane part of our life that which we had taken for granted. Obviously, it showed in results too! But now we knew the Divine play in all this. This was a ‘wow moment’ of our life’s understanding and experience!

We collected ourselves as much as we could for now and left as our pace. She went in but we lingered at her place with the excuse of cleaning the premises, meditating and preparing class for tomorrow like filling water in water jug etc – not as much to work as to be in that phase. We knew we would lose it the moment we stepped into our world. We were just postponing it by few minutes more. But as all good things come to end; we had to leave her place for now! As we closed the door behind us, we already were missing not being here..........

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