Love !!!! (Again)

Here I am again writing about Love. . Being fascinated by our Scriptures from a very young age, I have had a keen interest to read books based on our scriptures. So here I was, reading one of the English versions of the Srimad Bhagawatham written by Smt Kamala Subramaniam. The atmosphere was pretty heavy as I was just back from the 10th day ceremony of my grandmother, and I took up the story of Dhruva – the 6 year old child who got the darshan of the lord of lords, Narayana himself.


As the story goes, he was denied the permission to sit on his father Uttanapada’s laps and his stepmom the Queen Suruchi asked him to pray that he be born in her womb in his next birth if he wanted to enjoy the royal pleasures (sitting on his father’s laps – a royal pleasure!!!)The weeping boy then went to his mother Suniti who told him to pray to Narayana as he is the one to whom bhaktas are dear and he answers all their prayers. Thus driven, the child walks to the forest and is met on the way by Narada, who after testing him initially, initiates him into the sacred mantra – “Om Namo Bhagawathe vasudevaya” and so does Dhruva begin his tapas.

His tapas/penance goes on for 6 months at the end of which Narayana gives him his darshan. At this point, the shlokas have been wonderfully translated by the author – On seeing Narayana, tears well up in the eyes of the child…due to the tough penance he is unable to speak as his cheeks and teeth are stuck together, like a child running to its father, Dhruva stretches both his arms as if wanting to hug the lord himself and starts crying. . .


It was this point which set my thinking, in today’s world, we as children always want our parents to be more . . . more than what they are . . . . . and in the process, we miss out on what they really are...

There’s this Hindi song which goes “Dharti pe roop ma-baap ka, us vidhata ki pehchaan hai” meaning “Parents are the identity of God’s presence on the earth”

The moment we start loving them for what they are, then the divinity truly shows and we all can reach unparalleled heights in our lives, as did Dhruva!!!