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Vengrai Parthsarathy https://calciumhealth.com/functional-medicine/
https://hsprental.com/lane-closures/ Life is one long saga of learning. Some lessons, we learn from our
parents, some from our teachers and most in the school of hard knocks.
Here is the lesson I had learnt from from an old lady.
you can call an obsessively regular temple-goer. Sitting on the steps, watching
men and women– fervently praying or chanting some mantras, or circum-
ambulating the inner precincts of the temple., I used to wonder what they
were praying for . Perhaps someone was ill or someone was appearing for
an exam or was praying for a good son-in-law. Possibly, they were nearby residents
just wanting to have darshan.…to each his own.. On such occasions I
like to give some prasad or small change to the old, people waiting near the
exit, for alms.
https://www.admoday.com/event-schedule-2/ After one such visit, as I was coming out ,I saw a dilapidated old lady in a
corner, totally oblivious to the people around her. She seemed to be in a world
of her own. I was in a generous mood and since I had some money in the
purse being pay-day, I thought I will play the Good Samaritan. I gave, or
rather, offered her a five rupee note.What followed shook me to the core and
took me quite a while to recover from.
https://thebarefootbeat.com/travel-guides/ She gave me a withering look which rather surprised me : ”You, You are
giving alms to ME, to ME.. Who do you think you are.. Some Karna?
but say ‘Sorry’, ‘sorry’, again and again and slithered away like a thief at night.
click here I don’t know who she was. perhaps a once-rich woman now fallen into
bad days.. perhaps an ungrateful son or bossy daughter had
driven her away.. or , may be a drunken husband Whatever it was, she was
unbelievably offended , She had her self-esteem in tact though her once
rich pattu sari was in tatters now.
see It was my self-esteem too which was in tatters”..