Ram and Sita of Kaliyuga

 Ram and Sita of Kaliyuga

You all will be surprised when you read this story:: Ram & Sita of the Kaliyuga

This is the story as of 12th June, 2020:

A local resident noticed a aged couple (see pic) looking distressed, walking on the highway at noon on a hot summer day near Kopargaon, a small town in Maharashtra, Ahmednagar district.  

As a matter of courtesy, he asked them for food which they politely declined.  He, then offered them some money.  This offer was also refused.  Then, he inquired as to why they were walking like this at noon.  The man, then started narrating their story....

He said that they had walked almost 2200 Km. till that day and were returning to their native place Dwarka in Gujarat. 

He further said that about a year back, he had become nearly blind. The expert doctors had given up all hopes and had refused to do any surgery.  However, his mother had lots of hopes and had convinced the doctor to carry out the operation, come what may.  The doctor agreed & did the surgery.  

His mother, in the meantime, had prayed at the Shri Krishna Temple and had vowed that her son would do a *padyatra* to Tirupati Balaji and Pandharpur and back to Dwarka, if the operation becomes successful.  As the operation was successful, he was fulfilling his mother's vow.  When inquired about his wife, he said that she insisted on joining him in this mission so that she would cook food for him and look after his wellbeing.  

Both of them were talking either in Hindi or English, but Very polished!!  So , the gentleman inquired about their education. On hearing their reply, he was absolutely stunned ......

The man had completed his Doctorate in Astronomy from the Oxford University, London  and his wife also had completed her doctorate in  Psychology  from the same University in London. (There was no pride in their talk at all).  They were very close acquaintances to Dr. C. Rangarajan (ex RBI Governer) and also the Late Kalpana Chawla, astronaut who died in an unfortunate accident during the Space Mission.  This couple were donating their monthly pension to a NGO for the blind people's welfare.  (They were keeping distance from the Social Media for the time being.)

A man, just to honour his mother's vow, had become a Ram  and his wife accompanied him like Sita in this Kaliyuga..  They were walking for more than 3 months and would walk further for a month to reach their native place Dwarka.

Ego of Any person would drop dead listening to such unusual stories in real life. 

Names of this couple are:

Dr. Dev Upadhyay &

Dr. Saroj Upadhyay.