Ujwala Devi's Birthday.

A Photo of myself and my wife, Ujwala, taken in February 2010 at our home at Mussoorie in the Himalayas on a special function.
It happens to be her birthday today March 12! A date she is anxious to conceal always! So I thought I would let the "world" know through the internet!!
Best wishes and love.

TWIN STATUES OF MY MOTHER

THE TWO BEAUTIFUL STATUES OF MY MOTHER MATESHWARI SMT SAVITRI DEVI ( 1916-1967) WHICH YOU SEE BELOW, HAVE BEEN MADE BY MY WIFE'S COUSIN, SHANTANU INGLE WHO RUNS A FASCINATING STATUE MAKING FACTORY IN NAGPUR IN CENTRAL INDIA.

SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS STATUES OF THE CITY WHICH ADORN THE CROSSROADS OF NAGPUR HAVE ALL BEEN MADE BY HIM AND HIS DEAR MOTHER MRS. PRATIBHA INGLE, WHO IS GREATLY DEVOTED TO MY FATHER HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI

( 1902-1992) THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD PRAYER DAY FOR PEACE.

ONE CAN FEEL THE LOVE AND DEVOTION WITH WHICH THE STATUES HAVE BEEN MADE WHICH ARE DESCRIBED AS

MOORTIS, VENERABLE WORSHIPFUL IDOLS.

THESE ARE LYING IN MY HOME AND EVERY MORNING WHEN I STEP INTO THE BOG ROOM I AM STARTLED AT THE TWIN MOTHERS LOOKING AT ME AND IT IS AN OVERWHELMING FEELING OF LOVE AND EMOTION. I RUSH TO EMBRACE THEM BOTH ONE AT A TIME!

MY THANKS AND SPECIAL BLESSINGS GO TO SHANTANU INGLE AND HIS DEAR MOTHER MRS. PRATIBHA INGLE WHO MADE THE STATUES WITH SUCH GREAT CARE AND LOVE ALMOST MAKING THEM COME ALIVE.

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THE HOLY TRINITY OF LOVE

The word "Trinity" stands out as a Holy name in two of the major Faiths of the world - Hinduism and Christianity.

Hinduism evolved the term of Holy Trinity as the three faces of One God- (i) God The Creator, Brahma, (ii) God the Preserver, Vishnu, and (iii) God the Destroyer,(Mahesh.

Thus God creates when He gives birth to the Universe and also to man, then He preserves His Creation,as he regulates the stars and galaxies and the Universe, and the life of man, answering the prayers of man and putting the instinct of love, faith and service into him and finally He destroys His Creation when He comes as Death, and in the end when he brings about a cataclysmic catastrophe signalling the end of the Universe.

Christianity has the three well known faces of the Trinity, God, the Father, Jesus Christ the son, and the Holy Spirit.

with which all of us are already familiar.

I have my own Holy Trinity, My Father, My Mother, and my Grandfather!

Yet there exists a Holy Trinity which we see around us all the time but are never conscious of.

It is the Holy Trinity of Love. Here are its three ingredients.

(i) There is the Lover (ii) And there is his beloved (iii) and there is that invisible force called Love.

When the intensity of Love is very great the Lover asks nothing of his Beloved except the Beloved!! And the Beloved asks nothing of the Lover except the Lover!

Have you ever heard of a lover asking for material things from his beloved? Have you ever heard of a lover asking for peace and prosperity from his beloved, or wealth or status or good health?

Or a life filled with joy and happiness?

No. The lover asks nothing of the beloved except the beloved. If he gains the beloved he has everything that he wants and he wants nothing else. The same is true of the Beloved who wants the lover and nothing else.

But the devotees of God, those who claim to love God, are always selfishly asking for hundreds of things from God, solutions to their problems, health, wealth, material prosperity, and just about anything else they can get from him. Many desire God because they want heaven and salvation from him.

Is there any devotee of God who wants God just for the sake of God and for nothing else, not even for heaven and salvation and eternal peace and eternal bliss?

Lets face facts there is an element of selfishness in what we call the worship of God - because we are always asking for things from God.

The real love for God would be exhibited when someone were to say:

"O God! I want nothing from you, not even heaven and salvation and eternal peace and happiness-- all I want is YOU!"

This is what a lover would say to his beloved or a beloved would say to the lover.

There is a legend that the famous lover, Majnu had gone insane in his love for his beloved Laila and would wander around the streets in tatters calling upon her name.

God was so pleased with Majnu that he sent word through his angel that he would like to come to meet Majnu.

Majnu responded:

"If God wishes to come and meet me, then tell him to come as Laila! Otherwise I dont wish to meet him!

Everyone in the world should examine his or her own heart to find out how intense is his or her love for God, and whether the intensity has reached such a level that he or she is willing to forego even heaven and salvation for the sake of God.

Legend goes, that when Majnu died he went to heaven for his genuine love for Laila. While he was in heaven he was told that Laila had been sent to hell for her sins in the world.

Majnu screamed till his cries shook the skies and said out loud to God:

"O God! Thy heaven is worse than a hell for me without Laila! Send me to the hell where you have sent Laila-- that will be my Heaven. My heaven is to be with Laila no matter whether it be the earth, hell or heaven!"

This is Real Love. Those who can boast of having such a love for God are truly very advanced and enlightened souls and I must take my hats off to them.

For the rest, I would say, go and study the lives of lovers, they may tell us the real meaning of love.

SHRI NATHJI'S PORTRAIT AND EMMA

When my father, Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) who was later the Founder of the World Prayer Day for Peace, was in the Himalayas of Mussoorie in the 1930's he met an artist of great repute, Shri Roop Kishore, who ran a wonderful and spacious Art Gallery in that part of town in the Roxy Building.

 Many a leading public figure including prime minister Nehru and Gandhi had their portraits made by him and exhibited in his shop as life size wooden cut outs.

When he saw the divine beauty of HH Shri Nathji he prayed to be given a chance to paint his portrait. And so the portrait which is shown in this post came into exitence colored by the hands of this venerable artist of the town.

As the portrait adorned his show case more and more people came to be anamoured of it and many wished to purchase it and keep it in their homes. But the artist would not let go of the picture, it had become the soul of his shop. Ever since the portrait was placed there the visitors to his gallery doubled and trebled an kept on increasing in numbers a never ending flood.

There was an old lady in Mussoorie, a woman of considerable means and very advanced in years. She made a plea to the Artist that the portrait had robbed her heart and she could not live without it. She was wiling to pay any amount that he asked to purchase it and keep it in her home.

At first the artist was reluctant to sell the portrait which had become the soul of his shop-- but when the old lady explained that she may not have many more years to live and would wish that this portrait be before her eyes before she left the world, the artist had no option but to sell it to her at a very nominal price.

AS soon as word got around in the town that Shri Nathji's potrait was no longer in the gallery, the townsfolk came and protested to the artist that the portrait was a place for them to come and pay homage to Shri Nathji , and the gallery had always felt like a shrine with the portrait, but now that the picture was gone it was a big loss to the town.

Then the artist tried very hard to get the portrait back from the old lady, but she said it was her life and she could not give it back.

The Artist came and told of his plight to Shri Nathji and asked him for a solution. Shri Nathji finally found a solution. He called the old lady to his home and said to her:

"Dear Mother!! I would wish to ask something of you! I am sure you will not refuse anything to your son!! I wish to ask of this portrait from you, I wish to keep it in my home where people can come and view it any time, which they cannot do in your house. "

"But, Nathji", said the old lady, "how will I live without it?"

And Shri Nathji said to her:

"Dear Mother! I promise you that after this portarit is gone from your house you will see me everywhere inside your house, you will see me in the walls, in the open windows and the skies, you will see me in each and every atom, in each and every leaf of your trees, each and every blade of grass, you will see me in your heart and soul, you will see me whenever you wish to see me and wherever you wish to see me -- and I promise you I shall always appear before you!"

And it was thus that the old lady gave the portrait to Shri Nathji which then hung on a wall inside his house and people would come in the hundreds and take a glimpse of it and bow before it and be filed with the blessings and benedictions they got from it.

The old lady on her part -- was the happiest woman on earth. No matter where she looked and no matter when she thought of Shri Nathji she always found him there. it was as if he was now a part of her heart soul and body and her home! It was as if he was there in the form of his portrait. She would ever afterwards narrate this miracle to all who came to visit her and said that she would be the happiest person on earth when she died with this image of Nathji before her eyes, heart and soul.

This historical portarit still hangs in the drawing room of my father, HH Shri Nathji at Mussoorie above a central wooden mantelpiece and visitors still come there and bow before it whenever they get the chance.

Priya Nathji Performing on WBZ TV in Boston

This is a picture of myself, Priya Nath Mehta, on WBZ TV in Boston USA with the program being broadcast across the USA.

I was playing the electric Hawaian Guitar and singing some verses of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam.

I was in the studio of WBZ TV, and had taken time off from my physics classes at Harvard as a graduate student there for my Ph.D in Nuclear Physics!!

Technically I had "bunked" my physics classes at Harvard! LOL. But they were watching the program in their common room!