Meet Sindhutai Sapkal, the Indian woman who raised over 1,500 orphans

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Full Article here: https://gn24.ae/8fc2c5446dc1000 See more at https://gulfnews.com/1.67891783  Born to a cattle-grazing couple in the town of Wardha in the state of Maharahstra, India, the little girl’s father however discovered a few vestiges of love in his heart for his hapless daughter, and under the pretext of sending her out to graze the goats, enrolled her in a school at the age of five.

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00:00I am coming to Dubai now, but Vishant was there to help me every year.

00:08I met him today, he brought me food in the morning.

00:12And when I eat, I think of my daughter.

00:15I wonder if she has eaten or not.

00:17Mothers are like that, aren't they?

00:19And there is one more thing.

00:21When she came to my grave and smiled,

00:24the lightning flashed and all the shrouds fell down.

00:27I let my shroud burn, but it didn't get buried.

00:30That's why I became an orphan.

00:32And there is one more thing.

00:34Sorrow is very big and it exhausts a person.

00:37I was in a lot of pain, so I started looking for pain.

00:41Where is the pain? Where is the pain?

00:43And my pain went to him and his pain became mine.

00:47And I became the mother of the one who had no one.

00:50I don't know much to read.

00:53But life taught me how to speak.

00:57And I started speaking.

00:59And the children started growing up.

01:01I became a mother.

01:02And now I have come this far.

01:04That's why, Baba, all of you, help me, son.

01:08And you have also seen a lot of sorrow.

01:12A person does not go up easily, son.

01:15He also has to endure a lot of pain.

01:17He also has to do a lot for food, son.

01:20The worst thing is hunger.

01:22And I was very hungry.

01:24That's why I was hungry for others.

01:26And I used to beg on the train.

01:28And I used to live at the station.

01:30I didn't even have a house.

01:32At that time I was thinking that whoever has a house,

01:34he should get a house.

01:35I was hungry.

01:36At that time I was thinking that my food is not for one person.

01:39This is for everyone, isn't it?

01:41Distribute and eat, Sindhu Tai.

01:43This is my life.

01:44Distribute and eat.

01:45What can mothers do?

01:46Mothers don't do anything.

01:47Mothers just walk.

01:48Mothers speak.

01:49After giving a speech, I get food.

01:51It is important to walk, isn't it?

01:53That's why now I have taken care of small children.

01:56Now those children take care of me.

01:58I have two moments, son.

02:00One moment is that I gave birth to a child in a cow shed.

02:04And my husband, I was pregnant.

02:08And my husband was beating me a lot.

02:12I was unconscious.

02:14He put me in a cow shed while pulling me.

02:16And he made the whole cow open.

02:19That the cow should go from here to there and I should die.

02:22The man should not kill me.

02:24So when I came to my senses,

02:26I was delivered unconscious.

02:28I had become a child.

02:30And the whole cow was moving around.

02:33It was screaming.

02:34But this cow was standing on my body.

02:37And that cow was beating everyone.

02:39And it was speaking in its language,

02:41that don't come here.

02:43This mother is lying here.

02:44We will become her mother.

02:45So that cow saved me.

02:47I held her neck and promised her,

02:51that you have become my mother.

02:53I will also become your mother.

02:55And I broke the baby's birth canal with a stone.

02:59And after hitting that stone 16 times,

03:02that birth canal broke.

03:04It didn't break quickly.

03:06Life is so firm.

03:08I was 20 years old and I had this feeling

03:10that I have no one now.

03:12That's it.

03:14I gave up my hut.

03:16I went to Gujarat.

03:17I didn't have a hut.

03:18So I said, let's go to Sindh.

03:19I don't have anyone now.

03:21And I started living for that baby.

03:24My in-laws hit me with a stone.

03:28The in-laws who hit me with a stone,

03:31they hit me in my mother's house.

03:34Those in-laws and mother's house

03:36treated me well.

03:37No, son.

03:38Hunger is the biggest thing.

03:39When you are hungry,

03:40you don't understand anything.

03:41I used to beg in the car all day long.

03:43I used to go to the station.

03:44There was one person

03:45who didn't come to me

03:46when I was in trouble.

03:47And if he came,

03:48I should be with him.

03:49If I stayed in the station,

03:50I used to look for him all night.

03:52Is anyone sick?

03:54Is anyone hungry?

03:55Is anyone crying?

03:56One day I was going to die.

03:59And I tied the baby's stomach.

04:03That day I didn't feed the beggars.

04:06I was eating alone.

04:07I had to die.

04:08Full stop of life.

04:10And the beggars were watching me.

04:12I used to feed them every day.

04:13But that day I didn't feed them

04:15because I had to die.

04:16And at midnight,

04:18a beggar was crying in the dark.

04:20He was very hungry.

04:22And he was crying

04:23that he didn't have anyone.

04:25He didn't have anything.

04:26I am going to die.

04:27I am sick.

04:28I am thirsty.

04:30Is anyone there?

04:31Give me some water.

04:32I am going to die.

04:34I thought that

04:35while he is dying,

04:36I am asking for water.

04:37I am going to die.

04:38I should do some good deeds and die.

04:40I went to him.

04:41I picked him up.

04:43But my hand was burning.

04:45It was so hot.

04:46Then I told him,

04:47Baba,

04:48don't die after drinking water.

04:49I have a spoon.

04:51I have a bhakri.

04:52Drink water before you die.

04:54So I fed him my food.

04:56I gave him water.

04:57And he didn't die.

04:59He was looking at me

05:01and joining his hands.

05:02Then I thought,

05:03I gave him water and food.

05:05If he didn't die,

05:06why would I die?

05:07Death is cancelled.

05:08What is going to happen after I die?

05:10If I don't stay here,

05:12how will my organization function?

05:14I don't want to think about this.

05:16Because my children do everything in front of me.

05:19And I have faith

05:21that when I die

05:23or go to God's house,

05:25Allah will take me away.

05:27Then my children

05:28will work harder.

05:30Because they have come from there.

05:32They have come from darkness.

05:33They have realized the light now.

05:35They will not let anyone stay in darkness.

05:37They will destroy everything.

05:38They will take care of everyone.

05:39This is my earning.

05:40My children have not changed.

05:42They are doing everything.

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