LOVE ALL - Episode 14

Thanks. For getting it.
sridhar

 

Dear Sushdayal,
You have conferred the greatest honour on me. In fact when a forum was first opened for me in 2005 our Founder Malathi introduced me as "a writer specialising in women's stories" That's true. Most of my stories were published in Womens Era.
Womanhood is a matter of pride, Sushdayal. If you feel that my writings remind you of that, then well, I am honoured, moved and touched.
It is really quite moving to see the impact of the story on you. May you and yours be always blessed.
Please do not forget to be present for the climax. It's Friday. 6th March. 6 PM IST. should be morning 6 AM for you. Please be there.
love,
sridhar

 

Dear Sudhamayee,
Welcome to IL. And welcome to my forum. I am really honoured that you chose to write your very first post for me. May the Holy Mother bless you to write thousands of posts.

You are right, Sudhamayee. I too was crying, many times shamelessly, when writing the 14th episode. In fact I was crying even more while drafting the fifteenth which I will be posting on 6th March.

As I said earlier, and as one of my characters, Dr.Kamla said in an earlier serial, "As an argument atheism is fine. But as a way of life, atheism sinks."
Now how will an atheist explain this episode? First, he will say that everything is in Sridhar's imagination. Then I might say that things like this have happened in real life. Then he will say, 'Oh, that is a freak incident. Strange co-incidence.' All words, Sudhamayee. Empty, loveless words. Can these words buy the love that fills our mind when we read the episode?

One of my friend is a very strong theist. He violently attacks atheists. I used to tell him, 'please spare them. You should only pity them. For they are living in an self-imposed exile.

Thanks once again for writing your very frist post in my forum. And please don't forget 6th march to read the climax of this story.

love,
sridhar

 

Dear Krips,
thanks, thanks and thanks. You did wonders to the ego of a 50 plus MA.
ha ha ha
I loved your reply and read it a dozen times.
love,
sri

 

Dear Meenakshi,
I am really very very happy that you made it. Unless you finish reading the 14th episode now, you will not be able to enjoy the final episode.
Our Holy Mother shows her love in two different ways - one is sistha paripalanam and the other is dushta nigraham. protecting the good and destroying the bad.
Gitacharyan first whispered into the ears of each of us and then he thundered to the whole world
parithranaaya saadhunam vinashaya cha dushkrutham dharma sampsthabhanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge.

I have been noticing one trend in the tamil movies.They are now having a stunt in a song-sequence. I copied it. Having the destruction of evil combined with the chanting of sri sooktham.

I can pull on with the story, Meenakshi. But the problem is that it will get stale after a while. Whatever I am going to write it will be on God's love and human love. I will only change the sitting. But Love All has given me some new ideas which I am working on.

You know I got up early today, had my bath two hours ahead of the usual time and came to office at 8 itself. I want this day to be special. And I want to post the final episode to the satisfaction of all of you. I asked Indhu to specially pray for me.
And I am asking you and everybody else in this beautiful site (about which the story is all about) to pray for me.

Please don't forget the date. Today. Time Evening 6 pm. Dress code: something suitable to go to a temple. Other Preferences: Chanting of Sri Sooktham preferred though not mandatory.

Thanks for being there for me, my dear friend.
love,
sridhar

 

Most Gracious ILites,

In a few seconds from now I will be uploading the final episode of Love All - 15. I feel like a teacher who is retiring from his job after long years of service. There is a lump in my throat and a heaviness in my heart, none of which are due to any physiological reasons.

I don't know whether you will be missing the serial in future; but I will be surely missing you, your love which got expressed in the form of wonderful fb and your words of encouragement but for which a mofussil accountant writing a serial like this out of question.

Even now people accuse me of writing hard-to-believe idealistic stories. But that's what I am: A hard-core optimist and a die-hard romantic. I am madly, passionately in love with my Creator who is sure to shower so many good things on us, that we are going to explain one day, "Oh, My God, I can't believe it."

Well, ladies, that is our problem and not God's.

I am sure these words are enough to prepare you for what is in store for you in the final episode of Love All 15, a serial of love, which I loved to write.

My gratitude towards every one of your is a hundred times stronger than Yamini's gratitude for her saviour, Mrs. Mahalakshmi, DGP Tamilnadu.

Wish me, bless me and pray for me.
May you and yours be always blessed. May your life be filled with all good things.

When we complete our pooja in our homes when we take leave of from God (not that we can go even a nanometre from Her presence) after saying the mantra, "Yatha sthanam prathistabhayami" (May you be in your usual place) we say another beautiful mantra,

"shobanarthe kshemaya punaraagaman aaya cha"

May you come again for our good and well being.

Yes the Holy Mother would come again in another form, another story, another time and in another setting.

Till then, my dear friends, take care and God bless.

love,
your
sridhar

 

dear sowpar,
You know I heaved a huge sigh of relief only after seeing this fb of yours. I was just wondering, that before we met, you were posting a lot of fbs; but after we met at Anusha's place last December there has not been a single fb. Either the quality of my writing should have gone down or I should have a little jarring to look at. That was what I was thinking till I got this fb.
வயிற்றில் பாலை வார்த்தீர்கள்.
Now I know the reason. Your travelling and your reading all the back-issues in onego.
Your fb made all my efforts in writing this serial really worth the while. You know I sent an advance copy of A Love Story to my friend in Bangalore. She called me up to say. I have never cried like this before in my life. Nor was I happier. Well, for us writers, that is the food, water, shelter and our life.

You are right.Our Mother holds us in Her hand and has never let us down. Picture our Mother as the Bhoo Devi. Has she ever let us down from her hand? But we have let Her down. We soil her hands. we hurt her.

This episode and the next.. well in a way I am a little shy to claim full authorship. I had some basic idea and started writing. But when I started writing I had the vision before my eyes. Our Puranas say that Ramayana was enacted before Valmiki so that he could pen his great epic. Even now in marriages and functions, the photographers at time ask us to pose for a second take. My Mother was kind enough to pose in all her Glory for a second and third take which made someone like me write something like this.

I know Vindhan. But that was not the reason I chose that name. I just wanted to tell that Yamini could not get rid of Arvind from her system. Like Arun who opted for Vidyabharathi, Yamini opted for Vindhan.
thanks for the nice fb,
love,
sridhar