THE ACT OF VALOR

                                  THE ACT OF VALOR

 

the chivalrous knight {Movie= 300} 

Chivalry is the trade mark of the brave knights. But, does the definition of the brave knight have always to be the one with the shining armour in one hand and the sword in other?

            THE MATCHES ARE MADE IN VRINDAVAN

They say, the relationship is all premeditated in heaven but this is the unique story where the two eternal consorts met in Vrindavan.

Let’s begin from beginning. He was a small boy, blessed with a sharp brain. With a middle class upbringing, he had just stepped into his teenage that his family faced the hell’s fury when his father was diagnosed with Drug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis (lungs TB). Any number of treatments was not helping him much and gradually his lungs begin to deflate and finally one day he collapsed completely. That day or probably the previous days of his father’s trials he decided to become a doctor. So that he won’t feel as helpless as his fourteen year lithe feels now.

The boy took the route to the hostel and mother was attracted to bhakti marg and had frequent visits to vrindavan. Burning the night lamp, the boy made his way to the medical college. Six years down the line, he was out as a naïve doctor but he didn’t halted there. He went making the ways through the forest, cutting all the weeds, adding colorful feathers to success to his hat. And finally after years of patience became the man who save the people in absolute danger to life. He is an ICU consultant in one of the eminent hospital of Delhi. He is much respected for his knight in shining armour act.

His mother, now want to truly devote herself in serving Krishna. The only peril in her path was to get his son married. So, one fine day she prayed to Krishna and magically a beautiful girl appeared in front of her paying her obeisance to the deity. But before she could swim across the crowd of devotees, the girl, so magnificent and perfect to be her son’s bride dissolved in the ocean of people. The boy’s mother could only manage to crop up tiniest information about her, that she was a disciple of some guru of vrindavan. She rushed there to catch up with her but for days she waited with the guru, the girl didn’t click at her radar.

This was the era where the mobile phones haven’t made in roads to people pocket and telephone boxes remain out of order most time of the year. There was no way that Krishna send girl could be contacted. The poor mother left the message with the guru that in case that girl appears again, she should be informed. The mother waited for one whole year for that girl to again appear and thus after the long wait the whole thing went with the highway speed. [This is the most magnificent story of Krishna made couple, I have ever heard]

NOW HERE IS THE CHIVALARY PART OF THE STORY

The girl was the eldest in the family of two brothers and two sisters. The two families were happy with this eposual. Everything went perfect till the hell broke loose the girl’s family. After the girl’s marriage, the eldest brother fell in love and married to his love interest.  But the love bubble blurted soon and was bankrupt going through the divorce preceadings. This shock was not yet over that the girl’s youngest sister who married couple of months back was suddenly hospitalized. She had conceived but due to complications she started with the bleeding and the baby was aborted. They went to console her but the revelation by her left them inconsolable. Her husband was having an extra martial affair and the abortion was not the spontaneous one but was the result of domestic violence. The family sat under the naked sword of another divorce. The blow was too much for their mother’s weak heart and exactly two months later after another divorce of the family, she died in her sleep. The shock wave de-mylated the father badly that he was bed ridden with hemiplageia [Half sided paralysis]. And all this time, the doctor boy stood shoulder to shoulder with his parallel family.

He funded his elder brother-in-law business and helped him to stand on his feet again. He not only extended the helping hand in his mother-in-law treatment till her very end but also bearing the expenses of his father-in-law, best possible treatment. He pry the sister-in-law to pursue a teaching course which in an year time got her a good job in the school. He helped her to cope up with depression and gave her new hope and reason to live her life again to its fullest.

May be he haven’t won any battles in the war but he stood as the spine to the whole family in distress well, that’s what he promised himself at the burning pyre of his father. To give hope to hopeless, never to feel hapless ever.

PHRENOLOGY OF BENOVALANCE

-          Fuller portion of the chin below the lip

-          Full and moist lower lip

MORAL

The knight is sworn to valor

His heart knows no fear

His blade defend the helpless

His might upholds the weak

His words only speak the truth

His wrath undoes the wicked.