Contributed by: Dr. R. Boradkar
Shrimati Gangubai Motiram sheth is 87 years old. She belongs
to Gujrati Vaishnav Dashanema community also known as Pushtimargi Vaishnavas.
People belonging to this community are supposed to have come to Maharashtra with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. About 500
years back after the raid on Surat
She is a through and through Punekar born and brought up in
Pune and was educated up to third or fourth standard in Pune Mahnagar Palika
school no 1.
She lives in a Wada in
Shukrawar Peth . This Wada was purchased by them 60 years back and says that Pune was a sort of
village then..There was no Bajirao road, couldn’t visit Bhikardas Maruti after
five in the evening and Parvati was too far. and .going to Vthoba of
Vitthalvadi was scaring.
As was customary then
she was married to Shri Motiram Bhaichand Sheth at a tender age of thirteen. She has a large family of four sons
two Daughters fifteen grandsons and ten grand grandsons.
Her husband was a grocer and was very social and liked
socializing .
Lets see now how she
spends her time and what she likes and enjoys .
This is what she has to say and these are her words.
I like reading religious texts[ Pothis][ and I go to a Bhajani Mandal. In the month of
Ashwin I go for a Kakadarati in Gopalkrishna Mandir in Bhau Maharaj Bol.
I enjoy preparing food and feeding people. So I try new
recipes and serve them to guests and it gives me a great pleasure. We do
prepare gujrati food and wear Gujrati apparel. But we speak Marathi.
I am a devotee of Gondvalekar Maharaj and follow his teachings
My happiest moments are when I am with my grandgrandsons.
They add meaning to my life.
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