One of the most boring things is to go on a holiday to go back home to coimbatore, i had not been to that place for the past 9 months. Living in bangalore and not going home was avery wiered thing for lot of people around me. well i never went as i just dint enjoy there. Well !!! we dint have a choice this time my sister and I had to go home for this Diwali.
I must admit that this trip was a amazingly diffrent. The day after we landed, we decided to take a cab and go to the famous "Annakatti Ashram". The last time i went there was 7 years ago and i remembered nothing more than the entrance to Ashram. It was a journey of 40 mins from my house passing by a villages, muddy roads and speed breakers on our way. We finally reached there.
It was a very calm environment; we went in to realise that it was called "Ashra vidya Gurukulam" run by "Swami Dayanad Saraswathi". Our first meeting was with a retired elderly gentleman, my dad as usual ran into a detailed conversation with him, we realised that he takes care of the admin work at this place and regularly visits the ashram trevelling 40 km per way once a week. after our conversation he asked us to go around the palce and also visit the temples inside the Gurukulam.
As my mom i were waiting after our regular "pradakshinam", i realised that my sister and dad were missing... after a minute i realised that they had landed at the library. I too followed them where we met this Young gentleman named rajesh. He was a software engnier who had given us his profession to learn a 3 year course at the "Ashra Vidya Gurukulam" at Nasik; A school of Sanskrit and Vedas. after his course he is being posted and trained for the past 2 months. We landed into a conversation of mind and body. he made me realise a very wonderful fact about God. He made me realise that we do not do idol worship; rather we pray to the mighty lord and idol is just a medium of worship. after a long conversation we thanked him and left the place to go to the The BookStore as suggested by rajesh.
My sis and i went to the Bookstore where in my mom and dad went to meet another gentleman to works for Aim for Selva.. In the bookstore we realised that there were loads of books which read about swami ji and many other philosophical writers. As i was not a books person my eyes quickly his the billing counter where i saw some agarbathies kept. I realised that there were made by a kids who belonged to the School supported by swami ji in chennai. As i was gonna buy this i saw this elderly lady who came out of her way to talk to me. She mentioned that she has been living in the ashram for the past 4 years and had studied vedas under Swami ji. She encouraged us to visit the ashram regularly and meet and speak to swami ji. She said that Swami ji likes youth as the world tomorrow is in the hands of youth and people like her have already lived her life. I asked her about her familiy she mentioned that she only has a mother and aunt and visits them where ever they need her. There was so much love and passion in her speach. i realised how fulfilling and satisifed her life was. I bought the agarbati and a Spatikam Mala and left the palce thinking and hoping to be fulfied with my own life.
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