Akhilesh Ji - The grand banyan tree

     How much and how little can one say about a person who has done so much for so many? Most of his amazing social contributions to unknown individuals came to light with great awe, admiration and reverence only after he had left us all with deep pain, shock and sorrow. Inheriting a political DNA from his father (Late) Babu Banarsidas Ji, former Chief Minister of UP, Akhilesh Ji was born as the youngest member in his family. From very early in his life he developed deep and amazing political sense and had a very humble beginning in his career.

    By sheer hard work, passion for helping the needy, he ardently continued to facilitate, even without knowledge of his family, every person that came to him for help. Nobody ever returned empty handed and without a solution from his house ever. We all feel the un-reasonableness of the hands of time in leaving us without a great person who relentlessly worked for wiping out so many tears from so many eyes, that approached him with love and affection.

   Akhilesh Ji rose to great heights in all spheres of his activities as he had developed a unique understanding of the human nature and social structures. He had complete grasp of fundamentals of political synergies and took every task in hand to its logical conclusion. After doing a job, he started a co-operative bank, then he was elected as the Mayor of Lucknow, thereafter member of Rajya Sabha and  Minister of State for steel in Union Cabinet. He conceived and created BBD University, where about 25,000 students are getting education and a large number of them free. As sports administrator he was able to take Badminton in India to new levels, during his tenure as President of BAI, India won medals in two consecutive Olympics. As real estate developer he developed BBD Greens, he started two newspapers Voice of Lucknow and Kaumi Khabren, 90.3 FM Channel, hotels and many more ventures. He handled them all with precision and great perfection. Akhilesh Ji was like a grand banyan tree, with his spread all over.

   While our family is left without a member who formed the finest ingredient of us all and whose presence we all cherished at all times, there are so many here and out there who are left without a supporter, friend in need and a guide providing a practical solutions in a moment. He was a dedicated worshipper of Lord Ganesh and it was on the wee hours of a Wednesday that he left us all without a whisper. Being without him is being without an indispensable part of our life. With greatest love, affection, fondness, admiration and respect, we pay our homage to a great soul and a fine human being. May he rest in peace and God give all possible strength to his wife, my sister Alka, son Viraj Sagar, daughter Sonakshi to take forward his legacy with same grandeur and to us all, who will always  always continue to remember him with fondness and miss him all our life.

Happy Teachers' Day

Communication received from a Law Associate:

September 05.2015

Sir,

I have spent the entire day thinking how best to wish you. How best to convey my deepest regard on this day. I realised, it certainly was not possible. Not to put in words something so heartfelt; words would never give justice...

I decided to keep it simple.

I decided to be exact. To the point. Straight. Unambiguous.

I decided to not think too much and just go with the flow, because that is how I remember you would write...

I may be wrong.

Thank you. So much.

For being exactly who you are. 

For being an unapologetic and completely complete version of yourself.

Thank you. For letting me be a part of that.

Thank you. For setting standards.

Thank you. For making me understand that it is human to be human. That it is okay to revel in my deepest insecurities.

Thank you. For making understand that that is where my biggest strengths lie.

Thank you. For making me realise that the biggest and the most heartfelt joy in the world is in noticing the simplest of things. I realised that after I noticed a butterfly on a flower I just potted in my garden.

Thank you. For training me, without realising, to think like you (at least I believe so).

Of course not completely, but I feel so.

Every time I'm faced with a situation, I think of how you would handle it, what your reaction would be. I may not have the correct answer but I feel I have a better understanding of things than I did back then...

Sir, thank you for really making me understand the joy in books.

I read The Fountainhead almost every month and realise how much more there still is to learn from just that one book...

Thank you. For making me realise how important it is to be true to oneself. To be completely honest at a soul level. To disagree with things that DO NOT agree with one at ones soul level... I cannot thank you enough for introducing me to something so fundamental...

Thank you. For making me realise the beauty in everything around me. I cannot stress upon it enough, but you literally opened my eyes to my surroundings. I see love and joy and grandeur in even a dirty wall... Thank you...

I could go on and on and on...

Sir, thank you for accepting me to be a part of your world. You have certainly changed mine.

Ajita

Reply

Ajita, 

Blessed Be. 

Thanks for the most precious, wondrous and reflective gift, every word of which does complete justice to what you have felt and is true. If that is so, how can you ever be wrong.

Ajita, all that you have learnt and all that you continue to learn is all result of your own deep commitment to your own self. You possess a great heart, an unbending positive will, simplicity and humbleness is ingrained deep in your spirit.

You have an unshakable integrity and a singularity of purpose which has the potentiality to deal with the most adverse and difficult times. And all this exists naturally in your system. 

Great books are reflections of great minds and are best companions in life. Mother nature and nature laws has‎ the beauty and structures which continue to manifest and reflect it's magnanimity at all times. It provides you with fundamentals of existence, continue to observe and enjoy it's glamor in the stillness of time.

Always continue to enjoy the ecstasy of your blissful existence and take care of your own self and Praveen...

Blessed be...

Aruneshwar