Mother Esther - Biography

I feel greatly honored to write about a person whom I met during my long but short and wonderful trip to India.

Every individual around the world is dedicated in doing something for a purpose and tend to have great expectation (on the positive side), may it be for a good or bad cause. But one can only find a few among them who dedicate or rather sacrifice their entire life for a good cause of others (people not related to oneself).

I wanted to write this biography, because I felt it is my duty to do so. I am a normal human being surrounded by a big wall of “EMOTIONS”, because of which I am not able to go beyond the wall and see the other side of the world and I am sure most of us in the world are on the same boat.

Every religion has a designated Messenger to God. In the same way, I consider this great person as a Messenger to the world, who is beyond the wall of EMOTIONS that surrounds me.

Mother Esther, is the great person I am talking about and from whom I came to know the true meaning of dedication. Every one of us would like to help people who are in need, like Orphans, Old age, poor, diseased etc. So we tend to go to an orphanage, old age home and many other places to help them.

Mother Esther is an exception; she is one among the few who dedicated her life for the good will of others. I was curious to know about her as to what made her enter into the life of complete dedication and true sacrifice.

Mother is running an Orphanage place named “Saranalaya” in Coimbatore, India. As soon as I entered the orphanage, I was surrounded by a group of young kids and I could see tons of true love and affection in their faces. Mother received me and my mom with a warm welcome and gave us a good authentic Indian tea and some wonderful snacks.

I talked to her for a long time, which ended my curiosity but came to know a new meaning of dedication. I would like to share this with everyone.

Mother, was born in a beautiful place called Kanyakumari, southern most tip of India and a place where visitors can have a great view of sunset and sunrise. She has four siblings (brothers) and she is the only girl child in the family. A girl child going for a school during those days is a big ordeal. During her third grade, she was the class topper, but she was never recognized in her family for her studies. She had to cry to her family members for her higher studies during her young ages.

Days passed by, after lots of refusal and oppositions she somehow struggled to reach tenth grade. She was topper in her village of all the girls in her tenth grade final exam, which was a big thing during those days. Her family members felt proud of her achievements and wanted her to go for higher studies.

This made her think, that her family members wanted her to go for higher studies because she brought pride to her family. She decided not to do things for people, who don’t realize the true effort but go for pride. She always had a thought about becoming a Nun. One fine day she stepped out of her house and went in the direction of a Church to become a Nun.

From there on, she decided to live for others and not for herself. She was given posting in the Church as Nun for various social activities. Even though she was doing lots of social activities she still was not satisfied. She felt that somebody somewhere is waiting for her and is in need of her help. One fine day in a place called Coimbatore, TamilNadu she decided to go to a jail to give consultation for those who are terrorists, criminals, etc. But there was always a big opposition in her organization.

Her unstoppable thirst to help the real people who are in need made her to go against the organization. She went to the jail to meet the Superintendent of Police, which is an arduous task because an individual is not allowed into jail without prior appointments and the reason for making an appointment should be genuine. She found a picture of hers’ taken in a function along with other Sisters, Mothers and Superintendent of Police (whom she wanted to meet in the jail) who was the Chief Guest.

She went to the jail with the picture along with full faith in God. She went passed all the policemen and finally reached the destination where she wanted to be. Yes, she was in SP’s (Superintendent of Police) office. Firstly, the SP didn’t realize who she was and then she showed the picture and made him realize. She then went on to tell him the purpose of her visit. Initially, SP said it was not possible and finally she convinced him but then according to the jail rules, she needs to get an approval from an authorized person in her organization.

By God’s grace, there was a Baptist who was able to provide her the full support and approved her for doing this job. Finally after all the struggle and hurdles she is in a service of her choice. Her great faith in God made her feel and look audacious when she was walking along the jail corridor. She went into a hall filled with the most stubborn or the so called stubborn criminals. Her first session was not that good because everyone turned their heads with a great disrespect. Mother was kind enough to let it go and she realized that one day things will come her way with the help of God.

Days passed by, Mother went through all the curses and criticisms from people in jail as well as from her organization, but because of her patience she was able to overcome all those obstacles. She was able make every individual in jail listen to her and now they feel that the day is not complete if they don’t consult with Mother for few hours. She had one specific experience with a person in jail which made her take another diversion in her life.

One among those in jail was very stubborn and was never willing to attend Mother’s consultation hours. He was put in jail because he murdered an individual who criticized him for being a lower caste. He is a well educated and honored who has great respect for others. One fine day, he came to Mother and cried for a long time and he did regret for his mistakes. He talked to Mother about his kids who are helpless and that their career was in stake. Mother realized that her task is incomplete and decided to help the kids of the all the individuals who are in jail. She realized that young kids are not supposed to suffer because of the mistake of their parents.

Mother went in search of all the kids who are in need; some lived in nearby places and some in remote villages. Most of those kids were diseased; she brought them to her home, provided them with all the basic necessities and all the necessary medications to cure their diseases. Now every kid is talented in something and some kid passed their 10th and 12th grade with some excellent job opportunities.

Kids come and go, but Mother is always the same doing her duties with a great satisfaction and tremendous amount of faith in God. She goes to jail everyday for consultation, take care of their kids until they get good job opportunities and provide them all the necessary talent.

God can be realized, felt and seen through people like Mother Esther and I feel that I did see and will always see God in her forever. Thank You GOD!!!!!