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* LAST WORDS OF MY MOTHER *
My son, I shall pass away within a day!
No mom, you have to wait for many a day!-
"Dear son, my bones are now breaking down
I can't bear this physical pain
I pray to God to take me away to heaven."
Mom, why don't you hear me now!-
"Son, your dad was my Lord
Left me here and passed away to heaven,
I could wait past few days out of love
God says my days have been counted
Won't you accept this fact?
Your dad was like a mountain of light
And I was like a waterfall flowed from his feet
That mountain has disappeared from my sight
This waterfall would no more exist without that light
A ripened fruit is now separated from its stalk
Son, lay me down on earth as I pass through death."
While she was whispering " Siva, Siva."-
I waited upon her bedside.
That day she drank some milk.
On that night she stopped to talk
Her lips were then moving slowly
I knew she was chanting the lord's name holy.
On that night at 12.00 pm, her lips didn't move
I chanted sacred mantra "Om Namah Sivaaya."
And I poured down holy basil water into her mouth
She drank it then I laid her down on earth on a quilt
She fixed her gaze upon my face and
She drank few more spoons of holy water
Poured by me and my wife and children
While I whispered in her ear
"Om Namah Sivaaya" she closed her eyes
Then at 00.10 A.M did her pulse stop beating
And her heart stopped moving
I knew as she said, within a day she breathed her last
And left me in a sea of deep sorrow!
-venkat Dt.22.10.2004.
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