Looking Back
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I suppose it was a quite the few years ago when I made first contact with the ideologies and in face value, the institution of Gurukulam. I was maybe 12 or 13? My dad took me to a Gurukulam in Ochira, Kerala. There I first got acquainted with Thyageeshwara swamy, who I remember gave me mango slices. After that I got gelled up pretty well with Gurukulam thanks to my habit of tagging along with my father. Then one night on a visit to the Gurukulam in Varkala is when I first saw Muni Guru returning from what I faintly remember to be perhaps a visit for a speech.he was still sat in the car when my. Father introduced us.
Fast forward to maybe a year later when we had the opportunity to host him on his visit to Mumbai for a relative's wedding. He gave many lectures and taught us about the philosophical aspects. It was in one of these lectures where he talked about triputi. Ofcourse my restless mind immediately visualsied a somewhat rough picture and drew it in a canvas right after the lecture. I still remember his reaction when I showed it to him. But it's now that I understand it. It was the satisfaction that what he explained got through to my kid brain, perhaps.
I remember what he said in malayalam, patting my back. Loosely translated, he said "you are something else, son". That was a glory moment for little me if there ever was.
Years passed and I have grown and changed. I have changed, but I still find joy in expressing through my art, what I have to visualise. More recently the example would be the painting of the first verse of the daiva dasakam that I made. The painting that I showed to guru who insisted it be on the cover of the weekly. Along with which I believe the framed copy still hangs in guru's room to this day. Even here maybe that was a familiar glimpse of that old satisfaction.
Even so, despite my different decisions and choices and paths that I will choose I think the greatest treasure is having the privelege to stop once in a while, look back at these memories, learn a thing or two or introspect, and perhaps have that philosophy reflect in my actions regardless.Maybe that way I carry this little essence embedded at all times that way. In the future, who knows what will happen anyway?
Nevertheless, the memories and the impact that guru created will, I think, have an effect on not just my life but on everyone that has associated themselves some way or other, with Muni guru. And one of the things I aspire, is to have that powerful but positive impact on the people I associate with as well, with my words or actions. Because someone wise once said, a man will be gone, but not his ideas.