I visited our ancestral house located in a village named 6M in district Sri Ganganagar of Rajasthan. The 2 acre piece of land is more of a khandar now with all boundary walls almost broken. One room, a baithak is still intact though. As my cousin opened the room, and we entered the unlit room at around 530 in the evening, it didnt feel like a room which is rarely opened. The room had a light energy of a place inhabited by someone. On the wall infront hung the photo of my great-grand father whom my cousin respectfully bowed to. I was not accustomed to it and hence just bowed in my mind seeing him bow down. He once owned 1000 acres of the land the village comprised of.

The village has similar houses, all of our relatives. Almost all of them are deserted now with almost everyone having shifted to different towns and cities in Rajasthan and Punjab. It is a quiet place with hardly any activity around. I then visited the fields and walked around the 15 acres of land left in my father’s name. The sun was setting on the village side. I had never seen a sun as big as the one I saw settting in my village. I fell in love with the quietness of the place.

If things work out fine I shall get the house repaired and make it an occasional place of seclusion and meditation for myself. Lets see !!

love,
Ramnik