Happy Mothers' Day!

" When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped give birth to myself "

When I was in school, I hated writing essays and I had an imagination the size of a peanut. Though I loved reading, I could never get the words to form while writing something and would struggle for days together and then my mom would jump in at the last minute to save my skin.

Once, when I was in 6th grade, we were told to write a simple essay about my mom. Though thoughts flooded with how good a cook she was and how she would take the form of a tigress protecting her cubs when it came to us and how bad she could get when we were bad but I simply could not put those thoughts on paper in an appropriate manner and struggled all Sunday afternoon. My mom simply refused to help me on this one. She thought it was high time I learnt to write or else I deserved to get negative rating at school. My Mashi (mom's sister) -the darling, stepped up and saw what I had written and actually thought it was a good way to start an essay and just helped me fine tuning a bit, thus tickling my creative bit of the brain. From there on, I started scoring the highest in all my essay writings and also went to the interschool level competition standing 3rd. But that would always be the first essay I ever wrote - My Mom.



Can't imagine her without him beside



Mothers sure have a peculiar way of teaching their kids. They pamper them, love them and also are extremely ferocious sometimes but yet the heart beats like only the mothers heart can. So Mothers day seems to be very minuscule in size to that what symbolizes motherhood. According to Hindu scripts, we exist because of karma(our past doings) and also karma is the reason we are born where we are because of a debt clearance. But what occurred to me today is if that holds true then we are forever bound to life, as how does one clear a debt to a woman who has borne you for 9 months?

To talk about something as mundane as the sacrifices laid down to raise her kids is I think, demeaning motherhood. Mothers never sacrifice. They do what they do because they love too much. They do everything in their power to see that their child is happy and smiling. And unfortunate are those children who never understand that the mothers primary role is only the happiness of their child and everything else is far beyond their understanding. It took me 30 years to realise that my mother learnt nothing else in life other than to love her kids and to give them all the happiness that she could gather from her universe. And yet she is forever happy and is always dancing with love. I also realised the reason of her dance is due only to her children.

Some books say that God created man first and then the woman out of the mans rib. I so disagree with that; as ,if god created the woman to be born out of the man then why would the creator give the right of creation to a woman? The scripture further states that God cursed the woman so that she would bear the labour. Ask any woman today if they think that they have been cursed. And if the curse can be so beautiful that I am born out of my mother then God please curse us woman folk some more!

The Mother symbolizes the spirit of love. Love exists in between the mother and a child in the most purest and divine form. I seem to be reiterating love in most blogs but it seems to be the only blissful state of existence. Right from creating the child to nurturing the child, watching it grow up and then standing by to see the child flourish, is it not love? Just imagine the quantum of love a mother can contain in the heart in proportion to the love that we have showered on them, I think we are forever indebted.

To all the mothers of the universe and Mother Earth Herself I bow before thee! We seek love everywhere and it is at disposal at your feet. Whoever conceived you must have done so with so much of love!

God can only bless you!