Wedding Anniversary of my parents
remembered
15th August 1947 – no one
can forget the importance of the date, our Independence day.
21st August 1947 – neither me nor my siblings can forget the date . Yes, it was my parents
wedding day, within a week after Independence.
21st August 2012 – My parent’s 65th wedding anniversary day.
Today both of them are not with us. But the lingering
memories of their wedding day celebration , when we were young, is still in my
memory. Nothing in a big way ! Of course we were a middle class happy family .
My parents used to go to the
nearest Sri Mundagakanni Amman temple, in Mylapore, where we lived for
generations, for an archanai to the deity. They have donated some money to that
temple to perform pooja every year for my father’s birthday, which also falls
in the month of August , (14th)
There is something special to say here. They got married in
our ancestor’s house ( old no. 86, Mundagakanni Amman Koil Street , Mylapore ,
Madras ) , continued to live there, and me & my brother Gopinath were born
in that same house .
About 46 years both of them lived together along with us . My father ‘s demise was in
1994 and my mother left us in 2002. We perform pooja on their wedding day every
year and we strongly believe that their souls would have attained the lotus
feet of Sri Krishna.
As a husband and wife
their names also coincides with the divine couple’s names. My father’s
name was
DEVARAJAN - which is the name of Sri Varadharaja Perumal of
Kancheepuram. My mother’s was JANAKI DEVI
– which is the name of Sri Rama’s (
another avathar of Perumal )wife.
There were ups and
downs in their life and they struggled a
lot to up bring all the five children ( we brothers and sisters ) . They have
aimed at, all of us to become a graduate
and we fulfilled their ambition. They hung
a single photo frame with all the five of our convocation picture, in the hall
of our Mylapore house . But we
only know their economic sufferings to make us to stand independently
in the society.They have taken care of my Periappa's ( Dhoppa )welfare also as he had no kith and kin. What we are today is all
because of them in yesteryears. Our humble
obeisance to our parents on this day of their wedding anniversary and pray their blessings on all their
children and grand children and entire family.
On 21st August 1947 , they two were united by the
grace of God. Now their generation counts 27 including , children, sons-in-law
, daughters-in-law , grand children and
great grand children . A happy big
family living ever after them.
A family tree of Sri Devarajan and Smt Janakidevi is under construction !
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