Our Pay Day Tradition

The day we received our salary, usually it was the first of each month, we used to go to eat at an Indian restaurant. It was our favourite. Three or four friends from my section would come. It seems that most of the time I was generous enough to pay for them all.

Mr. Ramamoorthy did not join us. But Mr. Ramamoorthy used to invite us to his place to eat. Poor Mr. Ramamoorthy! Now nobody knows that he is an excellent cook, but I have eaten at his apartment many times. How can I ever forget his dal? Now that Lakshmi has come into his life, he does not have to cook.

[Source: "Our Pay Day Tradition" in Sri Chinmoy, My Consulate Years, Agni Press, Jamaica, NY, 1996, p. 27]