Never thought I'd write a 'spiritual' blog!

And I cried. Literally. With tears down rolling down and all that. All this happened within a span of 60 seconds, start to finish! I thought I was the only one (read stupid) but then I saw quite a few others, more teary-eyed than I was. A girl (with Versace glares resting on her forehead), looking in her late 20s weeping animatedly. An old lady, must be 80+ being held by who looked like her sons, wept endlessly. A severely handicapped man was crying but ‘trying’ to smile at the same time, which left me confused. I realised they’re not stupid & well nor am I (er..at least not in this case).

It was all fun & games while in the queue for 1 hour, moving forward at a slow pace. But as soon as I entered the main Sai Baba temple hall in Shirdi, before I realised anything, my eyes were moist. I hardly ‘prayed’; guess subconsciously I was too overwhelmed at just being there. I don’t go to temples often. I am not an atheist and I am not against going to temples but I just don’t! No reason behind it. But let me tell you, I have *NEVER* felt like this in a temple before. IT WAS JUST SOMETHING. After my ’60 seconds’, all I did was notice people. Right from devotees to guards manning/man-handling people & priests collecting garlands, etc. from people and just throwing it on the other side. To people from all over the country, wearing all kind of make-up or minus the make-up, I saw them all. Guards would literally push you away as soon as you reached the idol. But there was certain ‘biasness’ towards people who were crying. No one would ask them to move away as long as they wept! Even I hardly noticed the water coming out of my eyes, let alone the policemen, so obviously, I was pushed away. As I kept looking at Sai Baba’s idol from a distance, I said to myself I had to keep coming here. I just had to. And hopefully I will.

Frankly this trip to Shirdi happened because of my mother, she wanted to go there since quite some time but for some reason or the other we would not go. I wanted to take mum there more than I wanted to go. I was more worried that I’ll be missing out on the India versus South Africa Cricket World Cup match! Guess my next trip will have a totally different agenda.