We all have many friends across all the phases of our life and our childhood friends always remain very special because of the fact that they were the ones with whom our life took a fruitful form to grew to whatever we have grown up to....
We fought for a place to sit properly and some more adjacent space to place our school bag right beside us on those small congested broken class room benches in those dilapidated cement roof's class rooms until our 7th class and were happy to win those class room discussions on who all were successfull in winning a proper place to sit on a decent bench...!
From 7th class onwards, when we were moved to a better and a bigger school building in PapireddyNagar that was then still under construction, we were a bit surprised to see proper school benches were bought for us and felt happy for that we had ample space to sit properly and place our books on the elevated writing bench right infront of us eliminating the back pain issues that we have suffered for 7 years because of writing with our heads and spine bent down to write with our books placed on our legs....
From 7th class, i.e., at around 13 to 15 years of age, we have started elevating ourselves by roaming around the city and were amazed to find that we grew up so fast to appear for 7th class board exams that were the most funniest of the exams we ever wrote
( Our exam center was in Nagarjuna Vidyaalaya, Allwyn Colony, and almost all the 1999 batch members know how funny those 7th class board exams were...!! )
And those grown-up 8th to 10th class times were real adventurous moments for that it was the time we started watching movies and donning the roles of some or the other movie actor in the classroom and then it was a 'Gurukulam' time as well when our school teachers gave us strict lessons on managing ourselves as well to prepare us for the SSC board exams.
And when we reached those times of giving a farewell party to our seniors in 9th class and receiving one in 10th class, it was as if we were organizing a G8 summit with each student getting on to the dias to talk about their life's roadmap ahead with the already prepared speech of " I want to become a doctor and so on and so forth.....😊"
( Though I have bunked my 10th class farewell party because of some petty funny reasons, I went there and stood near by a class room window watching those funnier speeches from all my classmates and laughing at the same.)
And not to mention those funniest write ups in the Slam books...!🤣
Though we were on to our respective chosen paths after 10th class, we are always together at a call away to cherish all those nostalgic times of our lives along with all the other gossip of 'duniya mei kya kya horahaahai.... ' 😊
I believe such friendship stories of all kinds from our scriptures are very well a must to relish during this friendship week celebrations....! 😊
1. Be it little Krishna and Kuchela helping each other with some place to hide during a heavy downpour during their stay in Saandeepani Maharshi's gurukulam, and their friendship saga resulting in the one of the mightiest of all the Bhaagawata Puraana Legends, the "Kuchaylopaakhyaanam" that is explained by my Guruji, sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru as one of the most blessed legends to listen to from ShreemadBhaagawatam which can happen only by Lord Krushna's sheer grace....!
2. Be it the petty argument of little Dhruva with his cousin UttaanapaaduDu and aunt Suruchi that drove him to forests by his mother Suneeti asking him to do penance for Lord Shreemannaarayana
which resulted in the friendship between sage Naarada and the little Dhruva who was mentored by him to secure Lord's darShan and the same is blessed to all of us by sage VedaVyaasa in
" Dhruvopaakhyaanam".
As per sadguru sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru, it is one of the most powerful legends of ShreemadBhaagawatam that would wipe off all the inherent "jeevagata agnyaanam" / innate ignorance if listened to it with due respect and honor especially on the 12th lunar day ( DwaadaShi tidhi ) or on a Cinivaali ( Newmoon day ).
3. Be it the friendship of Lord ShreeRaama and the tribal king 'GuhuDu / NishaaduDu' and that of Lord ShreeRaama and the ape king Sugreeva, from the mighty ShreemadRaamaayanam....
4. Be it the friendship of LordKrushna and Arjuna from the Mahaabhaaratam, where in Lord ShreeKruhna proudly took the names of " Paarthasaarathi " and "PaanDavadoota" and went to all sorts of extremes to make them win the battle over the arrogant Kaurava sena lead by Duryoadhana.
5. Be it the glorious friendship Saga of Shree TaallapaakaAnnamaachaarya and Lord ShreeVenkateshwara, that has resulted in the Annamaachaarya SankeertanaaSaaraswatam, which is the only simplest form of all the known sources to secure Lord's bountiful blessings for the current Kaliyugam.
( I have already composed multiple posts on the magnanimity and importance of Annamaachaarya Sankeertanalu and their relevance to the current kaliyuga jeevanam.)
Friendship is that great ship which carries us forward giving us the much needed refreshments of eternal reliability and unconditional affection in travelling towards the chosen shores of life and ensures that it is always there no matter how many shores are there to travel all along our respective lives.....😊
Wishing one and all a very happy friendship week celebration spree.... 😊👏👍🍕🍟💐🥳
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