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Grandmother emerged from the kitchen, flour dusting her sari, humming the ancient verses of Thiruppavai. Her granddaughter recognized that melody instantly—the same one she'd heard Swami Paramarthananda recite years ago during their temple visit. "You still remember?" the girl asked, smiling. "Some things never leave you," grandmother replied, her eyes twinkling with life and purpose. She'd taught her daughter, who now taught her grandchildren. Each generation earning respect not through possessions, but through preserved wisdom. The kitchen became their classroom, songs their textbooks, love their greatest wealth. That afternoon, three generations gathered around steaming idlis, continuing what their ancestors had begun centuries before.