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    Changing Perspectives & Other Stories
    Changing Perspectives & Other Stories
    Changing Perspectives & Other Stories
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    Changing Perspectives & Other Stories

    By Raja Sharma

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    Changing Perspectives
    Contemporary Relations
    She did Come to Him
    Worried about You
    On Her Grave
    Gift of Love
    Pleasant Agonies
    Pickpockets
    Way of Life
    Just Words and Words
    Daffodils of Death
    Characters
    Scene I
    Scene II
    Scene III
    Scene IV
    Scene V
    Scene VI
    Scene VII
    Scene VIII
    Scene IX
    Scene X
    Scene XI
    Scene XII
    Scene XIII
    Scene XIV
    Parvati (A True Story of a Prostitute)
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJul 15, 2011
    ISBN9781466110618
    Changing Perspectives & Other Stories
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Changing Perspectives & Other Stories - Raja Sharma

      Changing Perspectives & Other Stories

      By Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2011Raja Sharma

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      Chapter 1: Changing Perspectives

      Guru Swami Vikram Acharya was on his high seat on the stage. Swami Anand was sitting beside his Guru Swami Vikram Acharya, next to the high throne-like padded chair which served as the seat of authority in that Ashram. It was a custom in the Ashram that the next to the highest Guru would acquire the highest seat. The staff in the Ashram had already begun to whisper that Anand would be their next Guru because he had selflessly served the Ashram and the Guru for nine years.

      There were thousands of people in the audiences who had come to listen to the words of Guru Vikram Acharya. It was said that Vikram Acharya had forsaken his father’s property worth millions of dollars and come to this Ashram in California where a large number of Indian and other Asian communities lived in perfect harmony.

      Swami Anand was instructing the volunteers present on the stage. Vikram Acharya was about to begin his preaching. The highest swami did not belong to any religion or sect; he propagated the message of love and brotherhood; he was remote from the contemporary politics and the trends of time; he looked at humans as humans and he hardly ever asked the names of the people who were introduced to him.

      Names often take you away from your human aspect of life, said Swami Vikram Acharya one day in reply to Anand’s question which Anand had asked out of curiosity because Vikram Acharya called everyone ‘Swami’ and he had never called him ‘Anand’.

      But Guru if we have no identity, it will be difficult to conduct the business of daily life smoothly…

      No, swami, we have made it so and we have submerged ourselves so deeply in the worldly affairs that we are often possessed by the sense of ownership and this feeling of possessiveness alienates us from others, said Vikram Acharya and smiled pleasantly.

      Guru, can everyone become like you? said Anand.

      I have never tried to become. It is a misconception. It you try to become what you are not, you miss the life. I am, I think, made so. In the earlier years of my life I was digressed because my parents and elders tried to make me what I was not, smiled Swami Vikram Acharya.

      Guru, you are a mysterious figure. It is very difficult to understand you… said Anand and bowed in front of him.

      Vikram Acharya put his hands on Anand’s shoulders and helped him stand up. He hugged Anand and said, Certain things can be taught and knowledge can be transferred but, my son, the knowledge of life can’t be transferred; it has to be experienced and understood. I am sure that with the passing years, you will understand everything. You will see that the silence which is often hated by the people will become your best companion, said Swami Vikram Acharya.

      The reverie of thoughts was broken when Anand felt a tug on his left arm. He turned and saw a little girl standing there. She was weeping and pulling his arm.

      What happened, dear? Anand bent on his knees in front of the girl.

      My mother, I can’t find her… her sobs did not let her complete her sentence.

      Where are you from?

      I came with my mother…

      What is her name? What is your father’s name?

      Meera, my mother’s name is Meera. I don’t know my father, said the little girl very innocently.

      Anand observed the little girl’s face very minutely. Something in her eyes and nose literally compelled him to dwell on the subject for a longer period of time. It was her mother’s name which affected him with a sense of agonizing pleasure.

      ………………..

      Yes, they have agreed to our marriage. Everything is settled Meera. I will be there by three in the afternoon tomorrow. Pack your things, said Anand and disconnected the line.

      He had known Meera for seven years. Anand, the son of an industrialist, the owner of three cotton mills in Surat, India, had come to America to pursue his studies. He successfully completed his M. B. A. in three years and then started his import and export office in California. He expanded his business and in one year he was able to establish six offices in different cities of California State.

      Meera was the first person whom he had appointed to help in his first office. She had the responsibility of her blind mother. Her father had left them there and gone back to India. When Meera’s mother could see, she worked in a big company but after losing her eyesight, the financial condition of the family declined and things got worse. Her father went to India on the pretext that he would start a new business but he never came back. Meera was hardly seven at that time and her mother’s social money which she received in the first week of every month was the only income the mother and daughter had. However, the mother spent most of the money on her daughter’s education and as a result Meera completed her B. A. in Management Studies. She had been looking for a job when her eyes fell on an advertisement given by a newly established import and export house.

      In the first two years, Anand and Meera worked very hard and the business began to expand. Anand’s father would send the goods from India and Anand, with the help of his marketing staff, sold the goods in various markets in America. In two years their profits touched three millions.

      Anand and Meera did not realize when they had begun to like each other. It was unspoken, unexpressed, and quite unromantic progression of events.

      One day, Anand said to Meera, I think we should get married now?

      Meera was surprised, pleasantly surprised, but she did not say a word.

      I know I am unromantic and I have never asked you for a date and I have never shown any signs in this regard but I can assure you that we will be happy together because I know that you love me too, said Anand in one go.

      Meera blushed and bent her head low, hiding her eyes from him.

      Will you marry me, Meera? he came closer.

      Yes…

      After that life began to fly and dreams were innumerable. They began to spend most of the evenings together. He visited her mother and she liked him too. Anand consulted a very famous eye-specialist and he agreed to treat her mother. Meera felt as if god had met her in Anand’s form.

      ……………..

      They were going to marry the following day. Anand had returned from India two days before. His parents were happy that he was going to marry the girl of his choice. They did not interfere at all. They were to fly back

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