Those who love God and his angels, the gods and goddesses
and engage in their service whenever opportunity permits, do not miss out on
anything of their own needs. Like a loving parent, God does not give us all we want but He gives us what we need. These are provided with ease by Him and the
gods. From time to time, there are special gifts from them, by the love and grace of the Lord.
Every year, during one of the months of monsoons called
Savan, village fairs calls melas in local language are held near Siva
temples across several towns of northern India. I had described a visit to one in an
earlier post. I rarely visit the temple itself on such Mondays because there is
long line outside the temple. My own belief is that if you carry the love of
the Lord in your heart, one does not have to visit a temple for it. God is
everywhere. I just convey my greetings to the Lord from a distance, from a
place where just the roof of the temple is visible because of the trees.
Going through the various stalls in the fair is fun. There
are stalls with street foods that I avoid, my own diet being a highly
controlled one now. I loved street foods when younger but they would play havoc with my stomach now. Stalls’
selling various nick-knack and things one needs around the home are focus of my
attention. Often, one finds things useful for the home at rock bottom prices. I
find here gifts for my grand children and gifts for people who work for me off
and on in the garden or around the home and things for myself too. When I find
something especially useful at a negligible price, it is indeed a gift from the
gods. This year I picked up a couple of shirts that were beautiful, one a half
sleeved pink one and another blue dress shirt, both with elegant embroided pin
stripes in white. During my professional years, I mostly wore white shirts. I
still have a huge collection of white shirts but few colored ones. Therefore,
these colored shirts were much needed.
When I came home and tried the shirts, they were perfect
fits. They are indeed loving gifts from the Lord, the blue one from Lord Shiva
since it is his favorite color and the pink one from his consort the mother
goddess, it being one of her favorite colors.
The blue one has been repacked for use on a special occasion, but I wear
the pink one on Fridays. A picture of
both placed on my bed was just snapped to go with the post.
Praise the Lord, praise Lord Shiva, and praise the mother
goddess
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| Recent photo from the author's garden |
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