.....Spiritual Orientation Days.....!!!!

......Gud Friday....Easter....rings a familiar bell in the Minds Eye....!!!!...the Serpentine Ganges on one side nd :with its ever changing routes.....to the lofty Rajmahal Hills on the other.....tucked in between lay our School St.Xavier's Sahibganj...!!!....as we sat in our respective designated desk for the Evening study @6pm....cursory glance thru the panes would reveal the silhouettes of the dark Hills with rows of bush fire twinkling like as if it was Diwali....the abode of the aborigines in the hills: bush fire were common :both man made or accidental...as I grappled with text books nd assignments it fired my imagination in no uncertain terms....!!....whilst the vision frm the Dormitory panes past 9.30pm atop my Double decker bunk bed was different with fire raging nd twinkling at a gr8 distance on the Holi River Bank of a funeral pyre..the final passage to oblivion & Eternity.....!!!...both these celestial occurence were regular features....the bush fire igniting my feel of an adventure nd the eternal fire stoked my formative feelings to abject surrender to the Lord...!!...the routined round the clock meticulously planned Days rolled by with us aspiring for the best in all deptts.....the break wud come frm the stipulated Retreat Days : of Spiritual Orientation....!!!!...wherein we stayed away frm the routine for a couple of days...huddled together in generating or focussing on all things thts Positive....Fr.Briffa SJ would motion us to different modules nd we enjoyed every bit of it nd came out of the Retreat ....to the mainstream fully rejuvenated......!!!!....rechurning of those thoughts of yester yrs ...its as effective and relevant as it were those days.....!!!!