Temple lady: concept: Raghu naidu.. narrated by : Vijay Naidu
Its 18:00 hrs in the evening and I saw this beautiful lookin south Indian lady surrounded by a lot of well wishers who buy flowers daily from her store…. People comin to her store , praising her its been years this female have been selling flowers in front of the same temple and all the deciples visiting the temple have been greeting her each day , she knows in and out about everyone visiting the temple, her forehead surrounded by the beautiful southy style kumkum and Bindi and most of the visitors without fail by the flowers from her only…. She knows their children and even their grand children its like praying to the lord ganesha without having a ord with her is incomplete……every day is a beautiful day for her near the temple the people know her , the pujaris know her,,, not even taking a break she comes to the temple 365 days in a year and she is really happy with the job that she has been doin and enjoys each moment of it…but she hates going back to her hut in the evening where her drunken husband is waitin for her each day to grab all that she has earned in the day to have some cheap wine.. still she doesn’t give up as she is immensely in love with her husband and keeps on marching ahead with her daily activity of selling those flowers.. she has great sales each day for the reason that the way she creates the garland no body else does and people think even GOD grants the wishes when the flowers from her store are offered ,,.. the days have passed and so are the years gone away… but she never stops and is in love with her art of making those beautiful garlands each day .
She doesn’t even bother if all her hard earned money has been blown away in the night just to have a few dreinks by her husband but she moves on and on and on…..
Now its Sunday temple is full of devotees and today Laxmi is there sitting in the same corner that she has been sitting all these years but she is alone there are no devotees buying those flowers from her eventhough all those garlands are still looking beautiful.. but still they are not buying it from her…the hours have passed by and so is the day but still she is all alone with no sales of her set of flowers… suddenly I noticed that today she is not wearing the Bindi that she used to wear each day ,she is not wearing the same bright saari but is in a white and a dull one….. the other shop keeper uttered Saab Laxmi ka husband off ho gaya….. he passed away and then I felt still why people are not visiting her she has been serving them for years,,,,,,,,and years,… y so….she kept on coming each day but still the same thing kept happening……the days passed by and still she didn’t had any more money left even to buy some flowers to sell….. and then one day she came with some flowers and suddenly flock of devptees came to her and started buying flowers again….. the only thing that was different this time was she was in a bright orange saari and wore her tikka,,…. All those people who had been neglecting her all these days…. Started buying again…. And one devotee finally had the courage to ask her …..u again look happy and bright……she uttered .. Now I am just married to God….:))
