Special Mom’s blog

Today I got my Official Participant Certificate issued by Guinness World Records in hand. I was participant in an event that did the The largest simultaneous Hindu Text Recital. We, nearly 1330 people chanted the entire Bhagavad Gita from Memory. The participants were in the age group between 5 and 80 and it was held at Texas last August 2022.

The assessments for the program was tough and when people ask how I memorized, I said, I had 3 books on all three floors. My situation was hard. I cannot sit in one place and do meditation and memorizations 😃. I have a boy who is running around and need to be engaged. But somehow with my husband’s help I could finish it. Again I have to talk about my Guru here. This program was initiated by him and when He did it, he bought back my memories of memorizing Holy Texts when I was little. In fact I would say that His blessings were there for me get this Certificate today.

Okay, it was not memorizing, the 2400 mile round trip, the 4 day program along with my autistic boy was a huge task for my family. You can say, I could have left him and gone. Yes, it would have worked out better this year since we have some help. But last year we had none and we were coming out of a pandemic and his separation anxiety issues were at an all time high. So he needed me and his Dad and I should have a guiness certificate for this task too.😊

As a Mother of an autistic child, I really lost the real world and did nothing for myself. This event encouraged me that I can spend time for myself without leaving out my boy. The guilt consciousness of not taking care of our children is always there with special needs parents. I think I took one too many steps with this event, but I do know I can do smaller things for myself that make me happy without having any kind of guilt.

I did not think about blogging about it, but then I saw the prompt provided today was record. Everyone had collected their certificates many months back, in fact I was the last one to collect it from my batch. So the timing was perfect.

I think I also have all the right to boast myself a bit? 😊 Here is my participation certificate from the Guinness World Records.

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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “record.” Use it as a noun, use it as a verb, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

If anyone of you are interested in this program and want to join and learn Gita here is a link, since they are starting a new batch: https://www.sgsgitafoundation.org/registration.html