Every morning I go for a walk in Ashok Udyan of Jodhpur, there I once came across a person who was very sad. When both of us grew closer over time, he told me the story of the last phase of his life. He has three daughters and one son, he himself has retired from government service. All three daughters stay with their in-laws after marriage. His boy was simple but weak of mind. For the marriage of the boy, he got married to a girl from a family of weak financial condition from Maharashtra state. He explained the actual condition of the boy to the girl’s family and also shared the information that he himself is in a government job. Therefore, they will get basic facilities of food and life.
“I will make an FD of ten lakhs in the name of the girl, so that she will continue to get pension in the form of interest every month.” His child got married and had a girl and a boy. But at the age of 40-42, he got sick and passed away. Now the daughter-in-law, his grandson and the granddaughter remained with him in the house. After a year or two, the daughters started misleading the father that our sister-in-law is ill-mannered, so through her out of the house. Believing the words of the daughters he threw them out of the house by giving some essential household items to the daughter-in-law and grandchildren. What could the poor lady do, she rented a house in a distant colony of Jodhpur city and then went to work in a beauty parlour and started to make a living out of great difficulty. After she left home, the daughters started convincing the father that he should go to the old age home and sell the house, keep half of the money for himself and distribute the remaining half to us daughters. But the daughter-in-law who was thrown out did not accept it. The old gentleman kept suffering by locking his own house and staying in the old age home for three to four years.
One day, with a sad heart, the gentleman came to my house and after narrating the above story, started saying that you should meet my daughter-in-law and find out that as my daughters are saying, is she an evil character for real? At her insistence, I went to her daughter-in-law’s house, where she was living as rent in set of the two room partition. He listened to her in detail and told that I was so sad after being kicked out of the house by Papaji and was willing to commit suicide, but dared to live for the future of these two kids. I talked to the daughter-in-law that day and came to the conclusion that she was not a bad character and my partner was to blame in this case. I definitely took this assurance from that daughter-in-law that if your father-in-law shifts you back to his house, she will serve him well and forgive her father-in-law for the pain she has suffered from. I advised my friend to leave the old age home and shift to the old place of residence, not to sell the house and bring the daughter-in-law, grandchildren back to their homes. Then that fellow brainstormed deeply on this for four to five months and after that apologized to the daughter-in-law and brought her back home. Two years turned out to be fine, then at the age of 81, he became sick and the visits from home to the hospital started. For some time, he had to be admitted to the hospital in between. Then his daughter-in-law did not leave any stone unturned in his care and service. Seven to eight days before the death, I was called to his house by giving information on the phone. There he said that he misbehaved with the daughter-in-law at the behest of the daughters and that he is deeply sorry for his act. He passed away. After death, that son’s bride told that Papaji has left a letter in his name in his cupboard, in which he again had requested for the forgiveness. No one knows how many what types of moments one has to come across in life.
-Er. Tarachand
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