Burning Candle

It was a cool Sunday evening in My Native village. Mobile phone was suffering with a near death experience!  Electricity was falling in love with darkness of clouds. Discussions of old stories by mom and grand ma, felt like back ground music to me. Everyone was waiting for either rain or power. I was simply enjoying breeze and beauty of green garden. But from inside I was angry on field owner, who kicked us out from playing cricket.

I waited for half an hour. But there was no sign of rain or power. Green beauty kept fading due to spreading darkness. No one was interested in going inside. I went inside searching for any books to read. I found my dirty and dusty High school diary, Sandwiched between Big Kumaravyasa Bharata and Bhagavata. I opened first page " Saalumarada Kombe Naduvali". A smile appeared on my face. It was a song, i used to sing and it was quite popular in high school. Many girls asked me to give that song. But i never did. I kept telling them " I will give while leaving school". I was so worried that someone could steal that song! Silly times na.

It was a folk song and had a meaningful story with it. You cant get it, when you Google it. As i say "some nice things cannot be found in Google " . Though story sounds effective when someone sings, i am going to narrate story to you now.

It was a rainy season. It was a first time rain experience for cute little bird. Her mother went out to get some food for her child. On the way back it started raining heavily. Mother kept worrying about her child. On the other side, kid was sensing fear. She felt cold. Before situation gets worse, mother came. Consoled her child. Let her to sleep by singing a song to her. All night rain kept coming. Mother covered her kid in her wings. Cared her with warmth and love. After all night suffering to save her child, mother felt sleepy in the early morning and fell asleep.

Sun started showing up slowly in the morning. Due to lack of sleep, mother slept for some more time. When mother finally woke up, little cutie was not there. She shouted. She cried. But there was no sign of her kid. Morning was new and inspiring. Small bird went after her dreams forgetting her mom. Mon kept crying all day. Still lines " Manadi marugittu, taayiyu manadi marugittu" lines keep haunting me whenever i sing this song.

Is this story so true in our life too? In spirit of chasing our dreams, are we forgetting our relations. During old days, entire family used to celebrate festivals. Now those days are gone! We are becoming so needy and greedy. Friendship is getting limited to Facebook. Love is spreading over android apps. I am not saying modernization is bad, But it's taking over culture too much.

            People now a days are getting strong by mind and weak by heart. Every relationship has a value. Why do you think rape cases are getting more and more these days? Root cause is relationship value. Having an independent life is becoming a trend!!!  Mother burns herself like a candle to give us education and we leave her when she needs us. She treats our dream like her dream. That is because she loves us. she cares for us. There is one saying " Love without is sacrifice is like a theft"!!!

I read a message from my friend Sumukha few days ago " We wish to earn loads of money, but we have the best of times when we have just 10 bucks in pocket. We wish to wear high brands,but we feel more comfortable in pajama pants after playing in rain.We wish to sit in Taj and Marriot with elite people, but we enjoy roadside foods with friends the most. We wish to earn big cars yet we talk our heart while walking down a long road. We have 64 GB songs, but a song on radio brings smile". So true na? Life is simple. Live simple and love everyone. 

And for your reference you can feel the lyrics of the song :

 ಸಾಲು ಮರದ ಕೊಂಬೆ ನಡುವಲಿ ಹಕ್ಕಿಯ ಗೂಡು,

ಆ ಗೂಡಿನೊಳಗೆ ತಾಯಿ ಹಕ್ಕಿಯ ಲಾಲಿಯ ಹಾಡು

ಮಮತೆ ಮುತ್ತ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ತುತ್ತ ಸವಿದ ಮರಿ ಹಕ್ಕಿ

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ಮುದ್ದು ಮರಿಯ ಜೋಕೆ ಮಾಡಲು ತಾಯಿ ನೆನೆದಿತ್ತು

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ತಾಯಿ ಮನದಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲೆ ಮೀರಿತು ಮಮತೆಯ ಅಳಲು

ಬೀಸೊ ಗಾಳಿಗೆ ಗೂಡು ಅಲುಗಲು ಮನವು ಕನರಿತ್ತು

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