Friday the 2nd of April 2010, Maalolan, my son, was born in Trichy KMC Hospital at 5.58PM. It was a normal human child birth. Padmini had labour pain on April 1st, but when she had gone to hospital, the doctor A.Meenakshi Sundari(known as AMS) asked her to go back saying that still the time has not come! The next day again at afternoon she had pain again. This time she was admitted and rest is history[for our family ;)]!! All this while, i was travelling from Bangalore to Chennai, unaware that she has been admitted. I was in chennai a week before and while going back, had forgotten to take my mobile phone with me. Earlier doctor had informed that the due date is around 12th of April. When i reached my home mom was waiting for me to freshen up so that she could tell the news that Padmini is admitted, but before that my niece mridula(6 yrs) couldnt wait to break the news!
I was in Chennai that weekend as my brother had prayed to offer a vadamala to Nanganallur Anjaneyaswamy. I had to come for this as my brother was in London at that time for work. This he had prayed a few years back and he had booked this date in year 2009. We were asked to come to temple at 6'o Clock and i was getting ready for that. My mom was confused because, if we get the news of child birth, then we are not supposed to go temple for 13 days! She wanted to hear the good news, at the same time she didnt want to miss the opportunity of going to temple. We decided to let the situations to take its own course. I think we were ready by 5.45 or 5.50. I went inside kitchen(which is also our swamy room) to pay my obeisance to Gods before leaving. I prayed to God that everything should go fine. Mom also prayed and we were ready to leave. At that time, Padmini's mother called my mom to tell the biggest news of my life. amma was extremely thrilled and she came and hugged me! It was a very emotional moment and i dont have any words to describe it. I became "Appa" and she "Paati"!!
We had asked Veeru mama(amma's elder brother) to accompany us to the temple and he was waiting for us in the temple. Myself, Amma and Subha(my bro's wife), Vedha perimma(amma's elder sister) and Mridula went to temple. We met my Mama and mami there at the entrance. Mom, myself and subha waited outside the temple as others went inside. In Nangainallur, even if the temple is crowded we could always have a very good darshan of Hanuman as he is very tall, standing at an height of 32ft. We were making continuous phone calls informing everyone of the good news!
The next day i went to Tiruchirapalli along with amma, Mama and subha to meet the new born. While travelling to trichy, i got the news that Mahesh babu, my school mate, also became a father of baby boy. We reached there at around 12.30 and went directly to hospital. Padmini's father was waiting for us and he took us to the room where padmini and the child was put up. When i had gone there, he was not sleeping. I saw padmini and she gave me a smile! Again, i saw the baby and i wanted to lift him, but then i was afraid to do that. Mom immediately went and started talking with him, like, "Kutta, Appa vanthirukkada, paathaya nee", "naan un Paati daa" et al. She is a loquacious lady and it is very difficult to keep her quiet for some time!! But it looked like the baby was enjoying listening to her!! He slept off after some time and woke up again only when we were about to leave. We took a few pictures of him in subha's mobile much to the chagrin of my amma. We left at around 3 and went to subha's chitti's house at subramanyapuram. We had a coffee there and then returned to chennai. i wanted to go to Srirangam ranganathaswamy temple to thank Aranganaathan, but then i could only see and salute the Rajagopuram from the distance as i should not go to temple. The car was whizzing past the gopuram and i was chanting in my mind the paasuram "Pachaimaamalai pol meni, pavalavaai kamala chengan*achyuta amararere, aayartham kozhunthe ennum*Icchuvai thavira yaanpoi, Indiralogam aalum*Acchuvai perinum venden, arangamaanagarulaane".
I was in Chennai that weekend as my brother had prayed to offer a vadamala to Nanganallur Anjaneyaswamy. I had to come for this as my brother was in London at that time for work. This he had prayed a few years back and he had booked this date in year 2009. We were asked to come to temple at 6'o Clock and i was getting ready for that. My mom was confused because, if we get the news of child birth, then we are not supposed to go temple for 13 days! She wanted to hear the good news, at the same time she didnt want to miss the opportunity of going to temple. We decided to let the situations to take its own course. I think we were ready by 5.45 or 5.50. I went inside kitchen(which is also our swamy room) to pay my obeisance to Gods before leaving. I prayed to God that everything should go fine. Mom also prayed and we were ready to leave. At that time, Padmini's mother called my mom to tell the biggest news of my life. amma was extremely thrilled and she came and hugged me! It was a very emotional moment and i dont have any words to describe it. I became "Appa" and she "Paati"!!
We had asked Veeru mama(amma's elder brother) to accompany us to the temple and he was waiting for us in the temple. Myself, Amma and Subha(my bro's wife), Vedha perimma(amma's elder sister) and Mridula went to temple. We met my Mama and mami there at the entrance. Mom, myself and subha waited outside the temple as others went inside. In Nangainallur, even if the temple is crowded we could always have a very good darshan of Hanuman as he is very tall, standing at an height of 32ft. We were making continuous phone calls informing everyone of the good news!
The next day i went to Tiruchirapalli along with amma, Mama and subha to meet the new born. While travelling to trichy, i got the news that Mahesh babu, my school mate, also became a father of baby boy. We reached there at around 12.30 and went directly to hospital. Padmini's father was waiting for us and he took us to the room where padmini and the child was put up. When i had gone there, he was not sleeping. I saw padmini and she gave me a smile! Again, i saw the baby and i wanted to lift him, but then i was afraid to do that. Mom immediately went and started talking with him, like, "Kutta, Appa vanthirukkada, paathaya nee", "naan un Paati daa" et al. She is a loquacious lady and it is very difficult to keep her quiet for some time!! But it looked like the baby was enjoying listening to her!! He slept off after some time and woke up again only when we were about to leave. We took a few pictures of him in subha's mobile much to the chagrin of my amma. We left at around 3 and went to subha's chitti's house at subramanyapuram. We had a coffee there and then returned to chennai. i wanted to go to Srirangam ranganathaswamy temple to thank Aranganaathan, but then i could only see and salute the Rajagopuram from the distance as i should not go to temple. The car was whizzing past the gopuram and i was chanting in my mind the paasuram "Pachaimaamalai pol meni, pavalavaai kamala chengan*achyuta amararere, aayartham kozhunthe ennum*Icchuvai thavira yaanpoi, Indiralogam aalum*Acchuvai perinum venden, arangamaanagarulaane".
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Congrats on your promotion in your personal life....Nice blog..!!
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