When a great number of electrons continuously keep shifting from shell to shell, electricity is generated. If the electrons were sticking on to their home shells, they would not have been that powerful. In actual practice, same is the case with love too. Love is the movement of particles called compassion. Generally, these restless particles stay compressed in the existential centre of human beings, because of a restricting force called selfishness. Irrespective of cast or race, sex or age the particles of love sometimes breaks all restricting barriers and ooze out, causing self love. If we allow love to do what it wants, it definitely will spread over to more places, until it finally fills the whole universe. Here, the epicenter undergoes a fantastic transformation, self-love turns agape. Just like electrons may cause fatal voltages, love also may turn unimaginably powerful. This truth came to my mind as I was reading the story of a mother and a child.
After a long history of miscarriages and physical problems, Carolyne Isbister finally gave birth to a premature baby. Unfortunately, the child was only 20 oz at birth and was not breathing. The doctors had no hesitation to pass the baby to its’ mother as she wanted, because they knew that the child is destined to die any moment. The mother hugged the baby with all the warmth love could offer. It continued, until it kick started little Rachel’s heart beating. Carolyne Isbister could not believe her eyes!
If Carolyne Isbister was demonstrating the power of focused love, Bai Fangli, a poor Rikshaw puller from China was demonstrating the experiences of a fully love loaded human being. At 74 he decided to stop this backbreaking job and returned to his home town. There, he saw children working in the fields, because they were too poor to afford school fees. He knew how important education is; he returned to the city and continued pulling the rickshaw. In 2005, he passed away at the age of 90. By the time he had earned 350,000 yuans, all of which he donated to the village school. Thanks to him many poor students could make their careers successful. The heroine of the next story I share here is a poor Muslim widow from Kannoor, Kerala, who sold out all her material belongings and donated the full amount to Khidma Charitable Trust to run their free dialysis center. All that she had was just a space of ten cents with a poor house in it. The story of Shri Kalyanasundaram from Tamil Nadu is a very popular live example of unbound love. In his thirty years of life as a librarian, he did not take a single penny for himself. He donated everything, including his pension, for the poor. Stunning stories of similar people are heard from many corners. What I have found out is that the happiest people in the planet are those who willingly share themselves. If we feel that we are unhappy, it only means that the quantity of love that flows out is dangerously low.
Joseph Mattappally
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