“यहाँ बस्नुको कारण उहाँलाई राम्रो treatment हुन्छ भनेर। बस्न त मन खासै छैन, त्यति सहज लाग्दैन तर बाध्यता। अहिले उहाँकै take care गर्छु। कम्प्युटर चलाउन आउँदैन, ब्लड लिन आउँदैन तर सुगर प्रेस्सर चेक गर्छु ब्यान्डेज गर्छु घाउमा। सुरुमा ४/५ महिना त hospitalमै बसें। घरबाट चिउरा लगेर पनि बाँचियो कति त! अहिले त उहाँलाई wheelchairमा ठेल्दै ठेल्दै ३ घण्टा हिड्छु, grocery store जान्छु।”

(“The reason we stay here is so that he can get the good treatment. I don’t really want to live here, it is not that convenient but we are forced to. So now I just take care of him. I can’t use the computer, or take out blood but I can check his sugar and pressure, and bandage his wounds. The first 4/5 months here, I just lived at the hospital. For so long we both survived on the beaten rice we had taken from home. Now, I walk 3 hours while pushing him on his wheelchair to go to the grocery store.”)

“नेपालमा हुँदा भजन किर्तन कति गर्थे। अखण्ड किर्तन भनेको थाहा छ? त्यो भनेको खण्डन नै छैन, केहि विभिन्न भगवान भन्ने नै हुदैँन। मलाई रामायण, महाभारतको सबै आउँछ। यहाँ पनि Tuesday Tuesday रामायण हुन्छ, त्यो सुन्न जान्छु। मलाई रामायण सबै आउँछ, त्यै पनि अझै सुन्न मन लाग्छ।

(“When I was in Nepal, I used to do a lot of praying. Do you know what akhanda kirtan is? It means there is no division, there are no multiple variants of God. I know all of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Even here every Tuesday they read the Ramayana. I know all of it, but I still like to listen to it.”)

गीताको एउटा कथा आउँछ मलाई अलि अलि, सुनाउँछु म, हुन्छ? कृष्ण भगवानले कुन्तीलाई “माग्नुहोस, जे माग्नुहोस” भन्दा कुन्तीले के भन्नुभयो थाहा छ? “मलाई दूखै दुख दिनुहोस, भगवान” भन्नुभयो। कृष्णले सोध्नुभयो, “यत्रो दुख पाइसक्नुभयो, फेरी किन दुख माग्नुहुन्छ?”, अनि कुन्तीले भन्नुभयो, “सुख भयो भने त हजुरलाई बिर्सिहाल्छु नि।”

(“I know a story from the Geeta. I will tell you, okay? When Lord Krishna told Kunti to ask him for anything, do you know what she replied? Kunti said, “Give me only pain and sadness, Lord.” Lord Krishna asked her, “You have already had so much pain. Why do you ask for more?” to which Kunti replied, “If I have happiness, I might forget you.”)