Son Takes Mother On Pilgrimage On Scooter, Duo Travels More Than 66,000 Kilometres

When it comes to serving and looking after your parents, you don't need to have the best equipment. You can give them the joys of life with your will and determination by making use of the available resources. This is what this 44-year-old man from Mysore is proving as he travels the pilgrimages in India along with his mother on a scooter.

In India, children are often told to take responsibility for their parents in old age and serve them when they are weak to do that themselves. Our parents make a lot of sacrifices for us and it becomes our duty to give them a fulfilling life once they get old. We have often heard old people talking about visiting pilgrimages and how people fulfil their parents' wishes to go to places like Haridwar, Vaishno Devi and Kashi.

44-year-old Dakshinamurthy Krishna Kumar is one such son who is taking his 74-year-old mother Choodarathna on pilgrimages across India on the 20-year-old scooter that his late father bought for him.

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Man Takes Mother On Pilgrimage On Scooter

Dakshinamurthy Krishna Kumar worked as a software engineer for 13 years but in 2018, he quit his corporate job to fulfil his mother's wish to visit pilgrimages in India. Reportedly, he took the life-changing decision because he had seen her mother dedicating 60 years of her life to the family and hardly leaving home.

He lost his father in 2015 and that's when his mother became lonelier. That's when he decided to take her mother on pilgrimages in cities like Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

He got his scooter modified and has been traveling with his mother on it since January 2018. So far, they have travelled around 67,000 kilometres on it and visited pilgrimages not only in India but also in Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar.

Back in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic spread around the world, the mother-son duo were stuck at the Bhutan border for around 50 days. They halted their mission, which he named Matru Seva Sankalp Yatra, for a while but resumed their journey again in August 2022 as the ban was lifted. Kumar bears the entire expense of the travel on his own and doesn't take donations or monetary help. However, there are people who invite him to stay over at their place when he can't find ashrams to stay at any pilgrimage.

They recently travelled all the way from Chitrakoot to Prayagraj on Thursday to take a dip in the holy Sangam and visit the temples there. They spent the night in Mutthiganj's Ramkrishna Mission ashram before leaving for Varanasi on Friday. After they are done with pilgrimages in Uttar Pradesh, they are planning to head towards Bihar on their scooter.