Special Mom’s blog

What is the legacy you want to leave behind?

I think I have written for this prompt already but I felt I need to write something different.

I have been learning the meaning of Narayaneeyam. A wonderful composition on Lord Guruvayoorappan written by Narayana Bhattadiri. As I was listening to Daksha Prajapati story in today’s class I could hear my grandfather telling me the story in my head. I was fortunate to grow up with grandparents and as I learn scriptures now on my own I keep hearing his voice. He had done an amazing job narrating stories from Srimad Bhagavatam ( Narayaneeyam is an abridged version) to me and my brother when we were little. My grandmother was the story teller yet it looks like my grandfather was the narrator of scriptures. I can still hear him chanting the first shloka in Narayaneeyam every day and I think me and my brother memorized it just by hearing it.

What a wonderful legacy he has left behind and I must say that gives me goosebumps.

My grandfather’s dad was a great scholar and had published books. But my grandfather didn’t publish anything but did leave in us a lot of wonderful things for us to follow.

My brother’s friend recently shared with him an online version of my great grandfather’s book. Metaphysics is not something in my reading booklist this summer but I think atleast I should scan and try to understand a little.

https://archive.org/details/rkas.185.truebrahminismin0000mkve