Am I spiritual???

 I would have never written about fasting but then people talk too much about me being on fast for these auspicious nine days that I had to pen down this secret!!!

Fasting is basically abstinence from food mainly solid food and since people who know me are not able to digest the fact that I’m fasting…I’m foodie! But my question is does being foodie   that make me less spiritual...I hope not. :p Fasting holds spiritual importance in many cultures and religions.

I’m not very religious types though but respect people I love! So, the story goes something like this…

Once upon a time…rather in the year 2001, a oh-not-so-studious girl had just finished her Matric exams!!! Her mother was too worried for her since she was good at only and only two subjects English Literature and English Grammar!!! She cried when she was to solve Maths problems, she made lame excuses to skip studying chemistry… (My momsy often recalls best excuse, “the chemistry book smells like sulphur!)  Can’t believe I could not think anything better. She hated the Physics teacher so much that she started to hate Physics too! But she could read ‘The Merchant of Venice’ whole day long…and could recite Portia’s lines all by heart… “Tarry a little; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood” being my favorite lines J Her father was more than happy that his daughter is about to pass the ICSE board exam…with what marks…he hardly cared! She loved her Pops for this till date :D So, her worried mother discussed this very topic all day long with her grandmother…much to her distress. So, one night before she fell asleep, she asked her granny, “Badi ma…agar marks ache nahi aaye toh kya hoga?” Badi ma kissed her forehead and told her, “Ramji hai naa…pray for good marks!” She got curious to know if it was possible not to study and still get marks to make her momsy happy! But to her disappointment, she was told that you should do what you can do leave rest to God, and that God never disappoints his followers. So, she decided to go to temple every morning with her Badi Ma…Deal.

Clicked by me-Diwali 2009

She happily went to the temple every day and one fine day she was told that the result would be out in another three days and fortunately the fourth day was the first navratri…so she again made a deal that she got good marks…good enough to make mom happy…she would fast all nine day of navratri and be a Durga Ma fan all life. And it so happened that the result was not out by the end of the third day and she was in a dilemma about the deal she made, only person to come to her rescue was her Dadi J so she told her Badi ma on the way to the temple, on the fourth day about her deal. She was politely asked to fast and wait for good fruits…

The results came after the Ashtami…but they were good enough to make her and her gorgeous mother happy!!!

And I, the oh-not-so-studious girl in the story became a life-long devotee of Divine Mother! It been more than ten years and wonderful ten years…but I don’t get into any of the religious activity other than this…So Am I not religious? Am I semi religious? Am I spiritual?

Badi ma would have been able to answer this one…but my fasting could not keep her any longer. Miss you Badi Ma. Love you so much. <3