During my Annual visit to the Himalayas, I have come across people who are living with their own stringent set of thoughts and actions – somehow during the course of their lives, they have encountered situations and turbulences which have made them adamant to situational living – their set of thoughts may sound weird but are exceptionally true to their sense of living and working fine for them, may be!
The hustle and bustle of mart
does not bother him much as he is there for a mission – a mission which begets a
bigger purpose of his living and the hidden sacrifices that he has done in his
life.
This time when I saw him, I purposed
the courage to meet him to ‘help’ him in my own little ways – by buying some
pics and stickers of the ‘Goddess’ he so eagerly sells , reaching near him I could
sense his despondant looks and a mild argument between him and a prospect
customer who was arguing senselessly about the ‘high’ price of his sell.
As the deal broke down and the
prospective customer moved out, I was in the queue – I was quick to buy some of
the items he was selling but with a hidden purpose to engage with him , asking
about his life, family and what he was all about. His reticence was his
character, and as he spoke less to my lengthy questions , I was quick to
decipher his character – truly a man of karma … as he told me that he was a Bachelor
and purposely didn’t marry as he had adopted 10-12 orphan girls who he was a father,
mother and a guardian – 2 of the girls had started to work after completing
their education and the arrangement was soon turning out to be a successful NGO!
– the zeal of uncle was unmatched as he lit up when he made profits through me ,
I could surely sense that at the back of his mind what was going on and what
the evening would be.
As we were talking , a sardarji was a intriguing listener who sold bangles on the street and often saw uncleji loitering around – as I moved after purchasing necessary photos and pics, Sardarji followed suit and spoke that he knew him more than a decade and he stays close by helping orphaned and abandoned girls and is a school teacher by the day and a street vendor in the evening for 2-3 hours! – at this octogenarian age, the effort was no less than a miracle – truly he was driven by the ‘Divine Force!’ – the pic of which he was so zealously selling – totally comprehensible of the fact that it is the divine mother which is making him do things, which otherwise could not fit well at this age of his life…
Such are the souls living anonymously but quite enriching doing their Karma for the purity of humanity - no noise , no boisterous tantrums but plain karma as according to their means and effort!
Kudos uncle as reminisce you today and eagerly wait to meet you again when the Divine mother calls me again at her Abode!...till then pip pip!
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