Grandma and A God Next Door
The lunchtime conversation centered around the new age Guru like Jaggi and Sri Sri. I explained why society needs them and the masters are naturally wiser than the four discussing them. Not satisfied with hurting the ego of a few, my ego turned to the silent man. I know he was a traditional person and prefers a traditional Guru. I just told him that his faith in his traditional master is on thin ice. I didn't explain it then but would do so here. When I about four years old, our family moved to a house in a street half-way up the hill in the Rockfort area in Trichy. Our house was right next to a temple of Vanni Adi Karuppu - roughly the dark guy under the Shami or Khejri Tree. (It is interesting to note the naming a person wasn't too different across communities in the ancient days.) Calling it a temple would be an overstatement. It was a small 8'X6' room in which a piece of the tree and a huge sword was kept. It ...