Attachment
The pursuit of happiness has many forms. Today I got a call from Teekamgarh. Teekamgarh is a village in Madhya Pradesh. A village I visited a few days ago. A village I would ordinarily have no reason to visit ever in my life. Neither do I have anything personal to do with the village nor is it a tourist hot spot. But, I visited Teekamgarh a few days ago and got irrevocably connected to it. I realised today that, when I placed that little bit of paper with my phone number in Sankhy's tiny hand, I had also placed a little piece of my heart there. 12 yr old Shikha and 10 yr old Sankhy were the younger sisters of 19yr old Anju didi, who became a Jain saadhvi(nun) on the 14th of October. That means that on that date, Anju didi sacrificed everything - wealth, beauty, relationships, temptation, her budding youth and even her name, 'Anju' to take up a frugal life of meditation and prayer to propagate Jainism. In the pursuit of Moksha - eternal happiness, she would disown he