She used to travel so much. I mean, that was the time when I will not be so much with her because I was in my home and she was in Europe, she was to Bulgaria, Romania. I͛m hearing she͛s here, there. She went to South America. How she managed, I tell you, I can͛t tell you this. Lately, I was traveling more with her. We went to Dubai and while leaving the leader of Dubai collective, he was sitting like this very quietly, I said, ͚what happened?͛ He said, ͚you know Didi, nowthat Mother is going out of my hands, I’m feeling sad.͛ So, I told that to somebody else who was also like this feeling sad because she was leaving from one other place I said, ͚you know, this is like a cycle.͛ And mother leaves and departs and the people behind are feeling sad and Mother is sad too to say bye and then she’s getting ready to arrive where there are a lot of smiling faces waiting for her. She goes from there to there. Everybody asked me this, that how could you as a mother share her, and of course, as a child, you want your mother all the time, it’s natural. But then she timed it as such when I think I was engaged to be married already when she was, it was 1970 right, that is the date, so I was already engaged to be married, my sister was already married, so, as they say, her worldly duties were kind of over.
I never found it very different except when I saw her posters all over and I said, oh my God, she sort of became renowned all over the world, but to me, always a mother.
She was strong mother, very strong and she was very keen on you being correct and right and very dharmic. That emphasis was very strong that you must never do anything wrong. And it was easier in those days because I think dishonesty was not at all a common thing. So, you had to live within your budget, so automatically you became a kind of person and your attention did not go on too many luxuries. Also, we did not have consumerism in those days. I mean, we lived simply. Majority of people were of the same type of thinking. It was not so difficult, you didn’t have peer pressure most of the girls were being brought up well. Also, I don’t think there was that much of conflict in generations. It was more flowing and the families to flew well.
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