Autobiographical musings

One important sad incident I forgot to write in Kamakshichechi's write up , as pointed out to me by Rema and also by Suma, is about the tragedy of (her eldest son) Ramdas' death. He was the pet of everyone in the family. I touched upon his childhood in my earlier write up. He was in SSLC when his father died and was in our house in Thrissur in Padmachechi's care along with Jayan and Mohan. Amma was with me at Badagara. When Chechi went to Madras with Kuttykrishnachettan, Ramesh was left with me and Amma in Calicut. After KChettan's death, Chechi got a job in his department, i.e. Meteorological office. Then she took Shailaja with her. And that was when we were at Kannur. Ramdas joined medical college and was a brilliant student. After MBBS, he directly joined for MD General Medicine (after a short stint of posting in Mundrothuruth ). MD also was a joke for him, and after that, he went ahead for DM Nephrology at Chandigarh - where he really shone like a star. The teachers...

(This post has some overlap with the My autobiography post, and has some added details.) Internship Before taking up a job as a doctor, we had to finish one year compulsory rotating Internship. We get our degrees only after that. Then, to get Registration, one year senior house-surgeoncy with six months in Surgery and surgical specialities, which included Anaesthesia and ENT, and six months in Medical and medical specialities, which included Paediatrics and Dermatology. By this time Chechi and family came to Trivandrum on transfer. So I started staying with them, for home-cooked food. I began by staying in the House Surgeons' quarters near the pay wards, above the then Casualty block. No food was served there, so we would get parcels from hotels - one Viswanathan brought food for Krishna Shenoy and me, only in the evenings. Lunch was in the canteen. I used to frequent Chechi's house, mainly for food to start with, and later for stay also. Chechi was staying near the Ayurveda h...

Gururbrahma Gururvishnu Gurudevo Maheswarah. Guru is everything and also God. All people wearing saffron clothes are not Gurus. A true Guru keeps his thoughts, words and deeds synchronised. He talks and does only good deeds. Such people have their knowledge from enlightened vision. All our ancient Rishis got their blessings and enlightenment directly from God. What and who was Vyasa Bhagawan - did he go to school or learnt Sanskrit? All the tons of knowledge that He had was obtained by His direct enlightenment. The amount of work he did - like the classification and coding of all the four Vedas - cannot be seen anywhere else in this world. Apart from the Vedas, he has written Mahabhagavatham, Mahabharatham and 18 Puranas. There is a story about him saying that Vyasa was still restless in his mind, Narada advised him to write the story of Sri Krishna to give him peace of mind, and he wrote Mahabhagavatham. Our Swami, Sathya Sai, was a world Guru in the true sense and people from all co...