Given the rising pitch and volume of verbal exchanges among the powers that be at the helm in most countries of the world in virtually all the regions of the planet in particular and among the people of respective countries in general, specially our nation of multiple socio-economic-cultural-ethnic diversity, one is obliged to turn to the fraternity who have departed leaving their memory in the obituary columns of dailies of all hues, including this one. Graves with tomb stones indicating their identity and good deeds as well as the date of their departure to the unknown region, most favoured being the heaven, as well as framed photographs hoisted on the walls of homes they lived in, never mind the layers of dust and cobwebs covering the wall-hangings, are other relics of the gone-for-ever kith and kin in their respective families. The few chosen persons of eminence in various fields of pursuit are the ones whose birth anniversaries are celebrated and dates of their passing away are observed, not forgetting to prescribe their ideals to be followed by people at large.
Of all the discoveries made by scientists and their cohorts across the world to this day, the destination to which the dead have headed remains outside their ambit, only because the means of communicating with them for a two-way dialogue is yet to emerge. Only Saint Kanakadasa, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Maharshi Ramana stand out as human beings who achieved communion with divinity according to the legend of the land.
