(contd from the previous post)
Padma
came of college- going age. The typical day at her college started with a
prayer which requested God to take them from mortality to immortality
(‘Mrityorma Amritamgamaya’),
among other things. When ever she uttered the word, ‘Mrityorma’, if the face of
any human showed up in her vision, by any chance, she shuddered. She did not
want anyone, who may have knocked the doors of her thoughts at the time of she
uttering the word, to pay with life on account of that. So, she tried to work
out a solution- she wanted to consciously remember someone dead to symbolize
mortality. A plan-B was put in place to remember the king Cobra, whose bite was
a sure-shot cause of death- so that the horrendous bite may be an antidote to
poison in life!
At last, some initiative had been taken
in overcoming the fear!
