A Letter To My Children

My Dear Children,

This is my hopeful desire that you all will make head ways

in your lives in your own ways.You are all sincere and responsible,dutiful and purposeful.My children, I know, I have no flags to leave for you to fly after me,but Providence will carve out suitable avenues for you to tread and reach the pinnacle of success and glory as would be anyone’s wish for you.For my part ,I feel you can easily move on and on; ultimately to shine on the horizon of life.You have the acumen which millions do not have.You can have miracles wrought much to the amazement of many around you .My children,you do not bother,do not falter,do not hesitate.Instead have confidence in yourselves.You are my offsprings,the prodigy of a man who has lived life in his own way without bothering for any one around.
I know,I have never been so sincere, or for that matter,so genuinely aspiring for any remarkable achievement in life;although I kept always dreaming to achieve something miraculous and spectacular,yet my dearest ones, I can assure you, I have been just very sensitive about that;but lethargy has been my weakest point.It led me in course of years,to a station which is most unsuited to my personality and my tastes.
My dear children,you are my most coveted treasure to bank upon.Your mother (my dearest spouse),is very bold,active and courageous lady whom I must think,you must be proud of because such ladies or mothers are really very rare to locate.
She is my dearest and costliest possession.I am proud of her.By and large she has developed the capability of holding the part together under any circumstances, whatever.I therefore in perfect humility call upon you all to stand by her and act upon her counsels which alone would serve you as a master guide on your path to success.
I have done what ,that I could for you,may be it is not upto the mark according to my own estimation, but looking the other way round,it is certainly an achievement considering the position which I sprang up from.My beloved parents had a very ordinary beginning in indeed;but they had been very caring,particularly my respected Babujee.I feel,I knew his mind,realized what he felt and what he wished to get in life.He had been a simple man of a God approaching nature, miles away from the crafty ways of the society of his times.He has been an ideal for me to follow. And as for my beloved mother, I have no words to describe her. Her sense of dutifulness and of service to all that had a time to reach for her blessings were really a unique experience to us. Even during her hours of illness, she attended to her duties without any feelings of hesitation or distress. It was she who gave us the quality to love others, inspite of any personal preoccupations. She was such an ideal for us that the life of which I have yet to come by.

I know this is my first time that I have been made to stay away from you all but I always feel,you are with me, and I am with you.
My children,your progress in life is my only dream and I know you will not betray me.I have always had the dream that you will achieve in life,what I wished to but could not get. Agreed,I was not very sincere about it but I had the desire and the ability to achieve it. I am sure about it .But you , I hope,I have given everything out at stake, everything needed everything required for making a head way and a solid start. Now, therefore my children, it has come upon you as a sacred duty to achieve what your father just somehow failed to do.
If I just peep into a period of my 50 years of life so far,I get only faltered, because of my lethargy and not for anything else. There was sincerity all right, but no determination, no perseverance, no convictions, no confidence and of course no coaxing at all. I could have made any grade given of course, the most needed direction. I blame; but only myself for, I could have done it with a little more effort. So ,my kids, I call upon you, I exhort you to come up and to do some thing which adds to the name of that one man, that father of mine, that Babu Vishnu Swarup, who had all the dreams in his eyes, but who could not eventually visualize what he intended to fulfill or for that matter, what I, for myself ever aspired to achieve.
My dear children, my sons and daughters, you owe me a grave responsibility, a very heavy one to bear, you have to accomplish what I failed to do despite my aspirations to do so.
My children, you all have the acumen to make any new stride in life, or to reach a milestone of note.
Although, i know I shall not leave any thing extraordinary for you to bank upon ,but my dear children, I shall certainly bequeath for you a legacy of lofty ideas and of unbiased sacred values. And upon that you can build up your edifice as high as you wish to do.
My philosophy in life has been to avoid confrontation although that way ,I had sometimes to deal with situations ,In which it was not very safe or solid,but I always found myself wanting as far as the tact to manipulate matters to achieve success was concerned. On that account my heart aches with repentence but to no avail. I can not now at this stage, make any amends to what I have already done. But I can assure you ,all that I have been able to achieve so far despite my fragility,is all due to your Mummy’s courage and boldness, her sagacity and wisdom, her tact and approach. There can not be any two opinions about her unique qualities. She is a gem among women, a remarkably unique being. She has been an asset in my life. Without her , all that you find, would never have been at all .
She is so nice to me even though I deserve nothing at all. Nothing to hide.
I wished so many things to achieve but something was lacking in me, and that something is so obvious to all by now. Lack of determination, lack of conviction, lack of self confidence. And all this combined together , marred my career, or else ,I would have given you all a present and also a future which would have been a matter of envy to all that matter.

This letter was written by my father Late Dwarika Nath Srivastava'Dwarkesh'.It was written during his posting as P.T.O.Jhansi,where he was made to stay alone as the family had been settled at Allahabad.He was an emotional and sensitive person,who felt deeply hurt by being away from family.He was a family man so felt very lonely and this letter is just a testimony of his concern towards his children. I wanted to share it with my friends.It is an emotional letter which inspires the children to rise,shine and glorify in life.It is a moral booster to carve out a niche for ourselves in times to come.