Dear Friends,

I thought of sharing the following.

My younger brother, 6 years my junior is smart. In olden days, we used to use a hand pump for drawing water. My brother had a special way of doing it. Very often he would pump with one hand and a few small kids would massage his free hand. Or often he would just stand and watch the kids pump out water for him in turns. At other times also, these kids would give him sursuri (caress) while he enjoyed the care, lying down with half closed eyes and guiding then from time to time as to which part of his body next needed attention. He was just 12 or 13 year old. I used to wonder how he managed such devotion from children day after day. I asked him. He said "I give a tofee to the winner."

This remembrance makes my heart lighter. We all compete for such tofees most of our life. Nirlipt Shiva smiles.

Om