A New Star in the Firmament
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A New Star in the Firmament *Dr. K L Chowdhury | |
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| Come what may we never lost a day visiting our faith’s temple up the Roopnagar hill. We lay prostrate in obeisance in the benevolent Lord’s presence; we bathed him in the milk of our love, and offered flowers and incense; we washed and mopped the sacred floors, and discharged many a religious chores; we tolled the bells, large and small, and performed parikramas, one and all; we sang the hymn ‘Shantakaram Bujagashynum…,’ and chanted the mantra ‘Om Bhoor Bhuvasah…;’ we walked the winding path of penance and sat in meditation and in trance; we chose august company, of the wise, the initiated and the holy; we prayed to the gods - Indra, and Agni, Rudra, Suriya, Chandrama and Prithvi; we invoked the elements in Nature – the earth, the fire, the air, the water; we raised our hands in supplication to the mighty god of creation. And patiently we waited, hearts fluttering, breaths bated; gazing at the endless heavens for a cosmic occurrence; scanning the galaxies and the milky way, for that miracle to happen one day - a new star in the firmament, our life’s wish-fulfilment. | |
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*Dr. K L Chowdhury retired as a Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Srinagar. Presently he is the Director of a charitable institution, Shriya Bhatt Mission Hospital and Research Center, Durga Nagar, Jammu. He is a physician and neurologist, a medical researcher, poet, social activist. He writes on diverse subjects – medical, literary, social and political and has numerous research papers to his credit, his pioneering work being “The Health Trauma in a Displaced Population” which was presented at national and international conferences. He was declared Shehjar's '
Kashmiri Person of the year
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