13-03-2013 //// 08:34 AM
The day I became a dad.
The previous night Swagata, my wife, could hardly sleep. She complained of severe pain every five minutes. We both thought that it was due to some acidity and nothing else. Just a day before that she was discharged from Dr. Nilu Khuneja's nursing home and then she was fit and fine.
Suddenly the door creaked open as I startled and looked back. A nurse was peeping out as she asked, "who is with swagata? Please come and see your son."
I couldn't believe my ears. I walked down to a small trolley in which wrapped in a blanket and cotton was my son. So small, weak and not crying at all though trying to.
My life suddenly changed. My perspective changed. I was looking at a small creature whom nature has nurtured in its own enigmatic ways inside my wife's belly. The fusion of a sperm and an ova, both the size of less than a few micrometers across, has resulted in him. What elegant engineering must have gone into such creation!!!!
As I stared at him the following words from Brihadaranyak Upanishad floated in my mind,
"THE ENIGMA OF LIFE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH THE STUDY OF ITS MANIFESTATIONS. ONE MUST GO TO THE ONE, THE SOURCE TO KNOW THE MYSTERY OF MANY".
As the trolley was pushed into the nursery, I realised I have become a DAD.
