28 July 2019

Everyone knows that today's TV media is mostly filled up with useless content. However there are exceptions, and one of them is the Tamil regional channel Makkal TV telecast from Chennai.

This morning I had the opportunity of viewing one of it's programmes known as 'Unnaippol deivam illai' that literally means 'There is no God like you'. This is a program in which celebrities remember their mothers. In this morning's episode, Dr Tiruppur Kumaran, a popular Tamil writer, spoke about his mother and how his spiritual life was influenced by her. 

His description brought tears in my eyes, as I could easily remember my mother's attempts to make me spiritually strong. (But I never followed much of her advice like most men of my age. When we were young, most boys liked to emulate their fathers than mothers. Hence I also emulated my dad in this aspect). 

She used to do her best not only in household chores but also in advising me to some extent when I erred in spiritual terms. For example once when I mentioned that I was tired after performing my Sandhya Vandanam, she said that one shouldn't say like that, meaning that my  attitude was a disrespect to His Almighty.

During her last few years, even when she had to be hospitalised three times in four months due to medical problems and was becoming very weak, she used to pluck jasmine flowers from the plant in front of our cottage and place them in water in a container so that I could offer the flowers to God. 

Indeed there is a great meaning in our Sanaathana Dharmaa saying "Maathru devo bhava, Pitru devo 
bhava...".

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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.