Dinesh’s mom Rani - a Buddhist and vegetarian, this is a woman who has never intentionally harmed anything in her life, and has done her level best to instill such values in her children and grandchildren. She lives-and-lets-live with ants and spiders and gnats and mosquitoes, working around them respectfully as she moves through her day sweeping and cooking and washing. They crawl on her as she falls asleep, exhausted, in a plastic chair, or naps on the relative cool of the concrete floor in the living room.
It broke my heart to find out that my Ant Attack episode so worried her that she went to temple, said the appropriate prayers, came back to the house, boiled a pot of water, and with a very heavy heart and eyes averted, poured the scalding water over the worst ant patch… then went back to temple, said more prayers, and spent the next week agonizing over what she had done… The woman basically consigned herself to Hell for me…what does one do with that..?
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