On January 25, 2019, a loving soul bearing the name of Shree V. Sridhar Rao seemingly finished his mission in this world and Departed from its body.
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा- न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones,
similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies,
giving up the old and useless ones.
Although he was only 8 years older than me he was a father figure for me & grandfather to my daughter. For nearly 10 years he gave us nothing but love especially to his granddaughter and his niece (my wife).
He was so full of love that when the granddaughter started working at the age of 21 and kind of became busy with her life, he adopted a month old female puppy and showered his love on that puppy dog.
Memories of him chasing/holding firmly, my daughter or Maggi, the ~2-year-old puppy with a morsel in his hand and stuffing their mouths, feeding them with all the love in his eyes, will remain with us forever.
With the kind of life, he has lived, I believe and am firmly convinced that his Atma has attained Mukti from the cycle of Birth-Death-Birth.
Om Shanti...
