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Shree Vakratunda mahakaya koti soorya samaprabha,  nirvighnam kurumedeva shubha karyeshu sarvada.   "O lord with the twisted trunk, with the effulgence of a billion suns, always remove the obstacles when I am on an auspicious undertaki ng. " Ganesha Pancharatnam by MS Subbulakshmi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KA-2YSz98&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3Fref%3Dhome&feature=player_embedded#t=13 Shri Vinayakar Kavacham by MS Subbulakshmi -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHh4RuJkS8A

This post is dedicated to My Eternal Mother/Father/Brother/Sister/Friend/Lover...My Everything, My Lord - Chinni Krishna :) Madhuraashtakam by MS Subbalakshmi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imRb6DToiBU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3F&feature=player_embedded#t=132

PAIN: (noun) -  physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury        - a feeling of marked discomfort in a particular part of the body        - mental suffering or distress What happens when your first love is your first heartbreak too? And I don't mean just romantic love, but any kind/form of love - between a parent and a child, sibling love, love between friends etc.  Heartbreaks are always tough, but the most toughest ones are the ones that never seem to heal. The ones that don't heal usually aren't the romantic kind (those are quite easy to get over, in my experience. Its the lifelong relationships that you can't live without, nor can you live with - parental love, sibling love etc.) In medicine, a wound thats not allowed to heal forms an ulcer which then goes onto get infected followed by necrosis, gangrene, amputation of that particular limb etc. I guess what am trying to say is that this heartbreak is somewhat like that - solution? I hardly dou