@pyaarihu I replied, "She was a mother."
The little girl looked at me in shock and confusion. "She was just a mother? Then how was she great?" I chuckled at her response. "Baccha, a mother cannot be described with the word 'just.'"
She tilted her head, still unconvinced. "But di, every girl becomes a mother."
"Exactly," I smiled. "And yet every great person the world remembers was first held in the arms of one."
She blinked at me curiously.
"Yashodhara was a princess baccha so calm, pure, and innocent, just like you. She was the wife of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha. But when he left the palace in search of enlightenment, she stayed behind and raised their son. History remembers Buddha's journey, but imagine the strength it took to remain, to nurture, and to endure the questions, loneliness, and uncertainty."
The little girl fell silent for a moment. "Di, so she was great because she was a mother and raised a kid?"
"No," I replied softly. "She was great because she loved. She stayed. She carried a responsibility that was never entirely hers alone. Sometimes the world celebrates those who leave to change it and forgets those who stay behind and hold it together."
She thought about it carefully before grinning. "Then mothers are very powerful?" she asked.
"They always have been, baccha," I replied.
"Then why isn't my mumma called powerful and great like Yashodhara?"
I chuckled again. "My baccha, she is great. Everyone is. It's just that we are all unsung heroes of our own stories. You know, very few people know about Yashodhara. Even you didn't know about her, na? Her name means someone who carries glory and fame. But did that glory make any noise? Like fame did? No, it didn't na Yashodhara..."
She smiled proudly at the sound of her own name. "But now I know. And I'll make my name sound powerful and heroic like hers. I'll be brave like her. I will also carry glory without fame that create noise."I kissed her forehead, and she giggled :)