Despite the digital era, Greeting cards
continue to hold their special place due to the personal touch, emotional
connect and display of love. Many of us still keep the collection of cards
received on our special occasions and cherish them a lot. In our school/college
days, the students would count the number of cards received on their birthdays;
receiving more than 10 cards would make them feel on top of the world.
Now imagine receiving lakhs of cards on
your special occasion, may be your birthday or marriage anniversary? Alright,
let’s bring down the number to a few hundreds. Still not there, is it?
But there is someone who has been almost
setting up a record for receiving a huge number of cards even behind the
bars- Baba Ram Rahim.
23rd September- A day His
followers term as GuruGaddiNashini Diwas, or the day when Baba Ram Rahim was
chosen as the third master of Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa- saw a humongous number of
cards reaching the Sunaria post office. According to the post office, lakhs of
cards were received for Baba Ram Rahim from his followers wishing him for the
occasion. These greeting cards are still inundating the post office in huge
numbers.
I believe one has to be really special to
receive such kind of a gesture.
While lakhs of mails have benefited the
post office in terms of their earnings, the phenomenon has also upped the
working hours for the post office personals significantly. But profits are
pouring in and who doesn’t like a good earning. They are witnessing this for
the second time; similar phenomena had happened during the birthday of Ram
Rahim on 15th August. Back then the officials commented that on
any given day their work would end at 1 pm, but since the cards started coming
in, they had to work till 6 pm.
Just like in August, this time also the
cards have poured in from various parts of the country, mostly in coloured
envelopes. These cards are being received as speed post and general post, and
may be as expensive as 50 Rs to 150 Rs and are all addressed to Baba Ram Rahim.
Post scanning process, these are being carried in sacks to the Sunaria Jail in
Auto rickshaws, since the number is too huge. According to the post office
employees, they have never witnessed such a heavy in pour of greeting cards for
anyone in their entire careers spanning decades.
This is not just amusing but also
surprising, as sending greeting cards in huge numbers speaks volumes about the
amount of faith that His followers have in Him and also about the love and
emotional attachment they share with Him. These followers celebrated the 23rd September
doing many welfare activities and carried on with their prayers customs. Well,
one thing is for certain, Baba Ram Rahim is going to keep on creating new
records, irrespective of where He is and nothing seems to deter that in the
past, present or future.
Note: Picture courtesy: Google
