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Me, Myself & I... Are you dispensable?

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“What is, Was not. What is not, Will be.”                                                 -    Me ________________________________________________________________________________ Just as a man giving up old worn out garments accepts other new apparel, in the same way the embodied soul giving up old and worn out bodies verily accepts new bodies. ·          Bhagwat Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 22 ________________________________________________________________________________ It was in 1931 when Jainulabdeen’s wife Ashiamma gave birth to their fifth child in Dhanushkodi village at the southern tip of the Rameswaram Island , at the eastern coast of the Tamil Nadu state of India . He rented out boats to local fishermen and lived a middle-class life. Jainulabdeen didn’t possess much formal education. They lived in their ancestral house, which was built in the middle of the 19th century on the Mosque Street of Rameswaram.  Jainulabdeen, just like any other responsible fath