Oh My God! Episode 7

Dear Kamla,
One thing I need to tell you up front. OMG is different from ALS and LA. In those serials I had full control over what I chose to write. I was a virtual master of the story line.
In this series fearing that I may become too busy mid-way I was keeping more than half a dozen episodes ready to be posted. I can do it here because every story is independent.
It's still a mystery to me how a particular story gets selected at the last moment. Episodes I wrote more than a month ago are still sleeping, while She made me virtually sleepless during the last three nights to make me write the 8th episode.
7th episode was what I picked up from the newspaper dated 3rd April 2009 5 days before Kumbabishekam of the Madurai temple. And I posted it at the time of Her marriage to Sundareswara.

Today my Master had a few minutes free time before we started our classes. He was telling me 'what a kind of treasure we have sridhar. why dont people follow this path of love? what's the problem?'
I told him that packing is the problem. The books I have to study for my classes is written in the traditional style which a modern computer-savvy mind can't even begin to understand. I told him that the need of the hour is not great saints. We have quite a lot of them. We need only packers and movers. People who can pack these treasures in right language and setting and people who can move them out of the conventional setting into the morern computer setting.
That's my mission statement, Kamla. I am particular that every twenty-plus thing working for IT or ITES should know these stories. We should start a packing and a moving revolution.

You know once I finish posting the leader post, the roles are reversed. People like Pushpavalli, Padmini, Malathi Jagan et al come up with something new. And everybody who writes an fb here adds to my knowledge and fills up some gaps in my education.

Your visiting this thread amidst your busy activities - I know how difficult it is to manage the FP forum and also being a super mod and participate in the global mods forum - is a blessing conferred on me. That makes me go out of the way to search for new stories. And at times even create them. OMG 6 was like that. And OMG 8 and OMG 9 which will be one very long story in two episodes will again be my creation.

But believe me I create only the form and the substance is as usual, from time immemorial. I do the job of a shop assistant. (of those days) The customer places the order to my boss. My boss in turn orders me. I go in find out the material, weigh it pack it appropriately and deliver it to the customer.

The customer in her over enthusiasm many time thinks that I have created the materials. I just deliver. that's all.

thanks for coming in. Somehow your fb makes me to write very long-winding fb. Bear with me, Kamla.
love,
sridhar

 

dear sowpar,

when I read your fb I just remember the way you sat in Anusha's house sometime in December 2008 and was talking about everything under the sun with me, Indhu and all others. Your fb is exactly like your speech. Direct, simple and straight without any frills.

The Rose Peter story which appeared in the newspaper was small and simple. Having decided to write about it in OMG I was meditating on the story for almost a week. And then slowly got the scenes one by one. What she did to Rose Peter was just a trillionth part of Her love. We can't even begin to imagine how her full love would be like!

Equality before God... that's a wonderful thought, Sowpar. But here we need to go one step further. Not only the rich and poor are equal before her, not only the strong and weak, the powerful and the downtrodden, the Englishman and the Indian, but also the believers and the non-believers. Her love for those who do not believe in Her is no less than Her love for those who believe in Her. Only thing is that the non-believers cannot experience Her love.
That should make us love and respect the non-believers because She loves them.
I have heard about the Maduranthakam Eri kaatha Ramar story. And the story is documented in the temple records. Pushpavalli has talked about this story.
These foreigners are fairly straightforward and did not have any hidden agenda while approaching God. That makes their devotion superior to ours.

Words like these inspire me to search long and deep for the right story to be placed in this thread. I will be making an annoucement shortly. But just some advance tips.
OMG 8 and OMG 9 will be one story in two episodes. The story runs into 8000 words (about 25 parts) and I don't want to test your patience. But I have one request to all of you. Only those of you who are sure of reading OMG 9 on May 22nd, should read OMG 8 to be posted on May 15th. Reading OMG 8 and not reading OMG 9 will be injurious to your emotional health.

Don't worry, i will also remind you all through pms.
Thanks for the nice, conversational fb which made me feel as if you were talking to me.
love,
sridhar

 

Dear Malathi,
that's exactly what I want in my forum. It should be a discussion board and not a fan club.
And with OMG it has gone one step further. On an average an OMG episode has about 60 - 70 posts. Only in the first 15-20 posts I tell something. In the rest 40 something posts I am a student and the ILites assume the role of my teacher. That's why I love writing a reply to your fb. That's why many times my responses are even disproportionately longer than your fb. It's this "parasparama bhavayathaanena" attitude which Lord Krishna tells in Gita, which makes the thread interesting.
I owe it to you all.
love,
sridhar

 

Dear vsar,
thanks for the nice fb. You are right. We don't have people like Rose Peter nowadays. We have collectors who earn millions in bribes and even plunder the temple properties. May God save them all.

thanks for coming, vsar.
love,
sridhar