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Dadi Haridevi Vaswani
Blessings of ever mighty were once again merciful on the
family of Sadhu T L Vaswani, the great spiritualist,
visionary educationist, influencing speaker, master of
language and above all a true humanitarian ever born in
Sindhi Community.
This was the day of 26th November in the year 1915, when
truly religious and God loving couple Krishnadevi and
Pahilajrai Vaswani were blessed with girl child. Strong
will power of mother and father's love for truth and
sympathy for the poor were started influencing the
childhood of girl and spiritual teachings of uncle Sadhu
T L Vaswani has made her so strong, as she grow and
become known to world as Dadi Haridevi Vaswani.
Childhood of the girl can be narrated as a face craved
with smile which often get wet with tears on observing
suffering humanity reflecting the tender heart she have.
Her schooling started at St. Josephs Convent, Karachi
and this was her exceptional intelligence visible in
spoken English and forced her teachers to call her for
reciting poems. At the tender age of 14 she last her
physical father and uncle Sadhu Vaswani started taking
care of her. She become famous as "Sindhi Scholar "
after being the topper girl candidate in Hyderabad at
schooling examination.
Aiming to become a doctor to serve humanity she took
admission at D.J. Sindh College with Biology but as her
tender heart doesn't allow to harm any God creation and
for being doctor she has to do dissection of various
animals like earthworm, frog etc. so instead of going
for the dream profession she chose to acquire B.Sc.
degree.
By the time she complete her graduation, Sadhu Vaswani
started Mira Moment for educating girls and she started
working as First Assistant at the P.P.C.M. Girls School
at Sakhar and afterward as the Headmistress of Mira
school Hyderabad. This was hard to believe for staff and
student to have such young school head but soon her
administrative skills and affectionate behavior made her
popular as "Dadi" elder sisters among the students and
staff members.
After the partition of the country, Mira moment
restarted with a school at Pune. This time instead of
working for school administration she preferred to work
for Sadhu Vaswani Mission and spreading message of her
religious guide and mentor to different parts of the
world and people from different walk of life. For the
purpose she traveled various cities in the country and
abroad. She also started to express her anguish and
sorrow, generated from looking at suffering living
world, through her writing abilities and excellence. Her
first book "A Saint of Our Times” was a pictorial
biography of the childhood years of Sadhu Vaswani. she
went to write many books in English and Sindhi including
full fledged biography of Sadhu T. L. Vaswani in
English, which is looked as an encyclopedic work by many
famous critics.
Sadhu Vaswani left the mortal world on January 16, 1966
and this happening proved a reason of change in her, She
started Bal Kunj and used to spent more and more time
with kids. Her fascinating smile, divine glow filled
face and simple life were the prime charming attractions
for children and she got a new name "Guru Ma" for her.
People who spent time with her in those days recall her
often spoken words “Make your lives beautiful. Let in
the light of love and service in your lives.” and “I
wonder how people have the time to hate when life is
even too short to love!”.
She completed journey of her physical body on June 13,
2007, the day when humanity lost a prophet of love,
Sadhu Vaswani Mission lost a very strong pillar and
above all thousands of children lost their "Guru Ma". |