An Experience of a Security Guard

I am on my rounds on the beautiful campus. Today I found the campus as heaven on the earth and my job as the most joyful one as it helps me enjoy interacting with the avenue plantations, lush green lawns, various flower plants, bushes and the breeze that flow through all of them and touches me.

The full moon that shines on the coconut tree leaves made me wonder stuck.

I allowed myself to get wet in the moonlight. I stood motionless gazing at the full moon and allowing the cool breeze to touch me as it wishes. I found in that silence a message of warmth, love and a sense of belonging.

I do not know why there is moisture in my eyes, suddenly. I sat down on the road with no thoughts but with a sense of being together with the Nature. Probably this is how I must have experienced in my early schooling days when my mother hugged me. Yes, nature hugged me as my mother did on the first day of my schooling.

I love this place so much for giving me this wonderful experience. I see my mother - whom I lost untimely to a demon called cancer - in every touch of the breeze, in the moonlight that drenches me with its cools rays and in the moving branches of trees in ecstasy. I called: “Ammaaaaaaa” so silently that it touched the depths of my heart and I felt my mother in every beat of my heart!

Again I said: Thank you Amma for giving me this wonderful birth that enables me remember your every touch, the food that you fed me and the stories that you weaved exclusively for me.

I spent the entire night with this wonderful feeling till the birds started welcoming the day with their musical chirpings.


--
IVNS Raju
(Upon watching a Security Guard who is very silent and very soft spoken works on the NDDB’ Campus at Erode (Tamil Nadu) in a full moon night in March 2004)