The "no honey- no sugar" sweet

My genius mom today made a sweet in 5 minutes which was damn delicious. It all started like this.... she everyday offers some nuts, dates, fig  and raisins to MAA and gives me the prasad to eat. I, the lazy one, bunk it many times and so nuts and dry fruits got accumulated. She kept scolding me for piling it up.... but then She - the genius thought of an alternative.

She ground all the dryfruits and nuts in the mixie along with a little "pottu kadalai" & made balls of it. It looked appealing and tasted Yummy tooo....Hmmm...

When i become disobedient and ignore the good things....MAA always knows how to make me do things the right way...thats because SHE loves me. My mom is no lesser in this, sometimes.

I just recalled something i read in "Amarakavyam"... " When FATHER wants something to happen, HE creates a situation..." How true... How true!!!!

Jara- old age

I was travelling to chennai in pallavan express in second sitting. A old man got in at srirangam. Some young boy came left his bag along with him. The man was very tired. He seemed ill. He frequently visited the toilet in the train. We the co-passengers realized that he had continuous dysentry. In few more hours, he seemed very weak. His dress started smelling. Any question we ask him, he replied in a very detached way. We enquired him where he is going in chennai... who would receive him at chennai. No idea!! He was silent. He seemed very determined not to say anything.

His bag had one bed sheet, few books, one more dhoti.

At Egmore, he said he will go all by himself and requested to get an auto. We did. He just told the automan something. He had no energy to smile at us. But he definetely did not want to tell us anything.

Dont know what happened to him. He very much looked like a disowned, orphaned father, who was unwilling to speak against his own children. This we inferred from tit- bits of conversation, we tried to have with him.

While disowning parents is increasing on one side, there are also cases of rich parents withall money, medical facilities but no one to talk to them or listen to them in the old age.  Old people need our time, few kind words more than money. Give them some, in turn, we will get lots of unexpected wise thoughts and blessings, which are priceless.

Respect old age.