Tathastu (may Thy Wish Be Fulfilled)

LOL. YOUR ABOVE quoted message received at IST 6.30.AM. If you had responded from India’s Capitol, it is really great as u could think In terms of humour so early in the morning. you must be an early bird.Thanks and Regards.
GodBless Us All.

 

Sorry for the second interference.

The word thathaasthu reminds me of my grandma who respected by one and all in the village.She was out to help anyone and she was an expert in conducting safe deliveries to women, when there were no medical centres or hospitals in villages.
Though she was widowed at when she was just 26, with 5 children, she was considered the most auspicious woman in the village.Even in the remote hut, the newly married
couple waited to do propitiations to her first and get her blessings.

please listen to how she blessed in Tamil !
1.Thaali peruga!( Let you mangal sutra get cut!)
2.Pottu azhiya!( let your kunkum Tilak get erased!)
3.Poo uthira!( Let the flowers that adorn you hair get scattered and fall down)

Every body belonging to Hindu religion knows how inauspicious these words are and these are being rituals while the husband dies.
But why the villagers were longing to hear these inauspicious remarks from the grand old lady of the village?
As per the grandma's own word

1.The first blessing means that the girl would give birth to a healthy child.When the baby sucks his/her mother with all happiness and enthusiasm, the baby would get hold of the thali thread in its hands,( many mothers would have experienced this).When the baby pulls the thread ,it may get cut off.This is not inauspicious,but is indicative of early motherhood, the health of the baby.

2.When the baby is seven or eight months old, it gets attracted with the big tilakam on its mother's forehead,tries to bring the tilakam in its hold and in the process the tilak gets erased.This again is indicative of the intellectual normal growth of the baby.Now a days it is even easier for the baby to remove the sticker tilak ,hold it for a while and keep it in whichever place it desires.

3.Refers to the next stage.When the child becomes a toddler,it goes round and round the mother, pulls the flowers in her hair as a play and the big strand of flowers gets loosened making the entire area filled with flowers.The mother becomes happy and hugs the child.
People who who had realised and experienced the real meaning of the inauspicious expressions would throng our house every now and then,touch her feet and happily return with these three blessings.This continued for nearly 50 years and proved to be a real blessing.
Now tell me,if Aswini Devathas too interpreted her words correctly and said'Thathaasthu!

Jayasala 42

 

Thank You. First passage read like a dirge but the second 1,2 &3 marked paragraphs reveals what was hidden in those lines. I guess those lines uttered by your grandma not intoning dirge but in some lullaby raga like Dhanyasi (express ecstatic) or neelambari (sleep inducing).
2. I wonder how at your age these decades old scenes could be rewound and replayed. you are memory is green.
touchwood.
Regards. God Bless Us All.

 

Thank you.