Allahabad: For some people spirituality is the end goal of life—quite literally in fact. One such extreme case is that of a law graduate and a trained pilot from Bangalore who chose to become a Naga ‘sanyasin’ instead of arguing cases in court-rooms.
She now wants to fly a helicopter to spread 'Sanatan Dharma' across the globe.
''I was trained as a pilot during NCC training at the Military Services School in Bangalore. If the Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara provides me with a helicopter I will love to spread Sanatan Dharma across the world by flying it,” said Mahant Tejaswini Giri (49), one of the over 3,500 Naga ‘sanyasins’ belonging to the Juna Akhara camping at the Ardh Kumbh fair in Allahabad.
''Let them buy the helicopter and then I will spend rest of my life spreading Sanatan Dharma through the air-craft,'' she adds.
The daughter of a former Company Commander of the 26th Madras Regiment of Indian Army, Tejaswini was third among five Bangalore sisters. ''I was repeatedly neglected by my family and when only nine years old I willfully decided to join the ashram of Vidya Narayan Tirth Shankaracharya in Bangalore in search of a Kul Guru,'' she said.
During her stay at the Ashram, she passed out as a history graduate and later completed a bachelors degree in law with flying colours from the Bangalore University.
''The court room was not my cup of tea and hence the child in me who hankered for warmth decided to devote entire life in ushering love and affection among commoners through the Sanatan Dharma.''
The highly educated Sanyasin is presently with a branch of the Juna Akhara at Ludhiana in Punjab managed by her 'Shiksha Guru' Mahant Anand Giriji.
The Naga ‘sanyasin’, who relishes the puffs of Marlboro cigarette as well as the desi ganja with equal elan while talking on a latest cellphone feels Nasha by Naga sadhus or sahdhvis' (lady Nagas) is not for enjoyment, but for plunging them fully into the meditative mode.
Are these intoxicants in anyway related to her attempts to forget her past life? ''I have no family from the day I turned a Sanyasin for Sanatan Dharma,'' she replies.
The only thing she remembers about her family is that her eldest sister was once the Deputy Commissoner of Hassan district in Karnataka, another the Chief Medical Officer with the Victoria Hospital in Bangalore, while the youngest sister is a Kannada playback singer Manjula Guru. ''But I have no idea about where they are now especially my only brother who was youngest among the six children,'' she said.
''The day I became a Sanyasin I cremated my past life and was reborn. Now the entire world is my family and the only task at my hand is to spread Sanatan Dharma.''
The diminutive Sanyasin, however, does not rule out the idea of getting back to court rooms to contest cases of those who have no money to seek justice.
''I have become Sanyasin for Jan Kalyan and will never hesitate to go back to court room for poor people who cannot afford lawyers to further their fight for justice.''
With inputs from UNI
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