What does it mean to give and receive gifts during a festive season?Every festival, no matter in which part of the world, one celebrates the festivities by eating,drinking,making merry and sharing with people who are either relatives or friends.This Diwali there are two people whom I would like to mention.They actually are the guardian angels of kindness and goodness in this world.They share without qualms ,whatever they have and the little they can do..We all can take a page out of their book and instill it in our life.Especially if it helps to dispel our dark greedy thoughts..
1) What does a beggar do according to you ?Beg/Create a nuisance... Meet Khimjibhai Prajapati.The first beggar who has no qualms on admitting that he's one.That too with a smile on his face,reflecting the noble soul that he is.He accumalated a princely sum of Rs.5000 and donated it to a deaf girls school in Mehsana. He has been begging for the last 10 years outside a temple and from the money he has saved he actually hobbled up with his crutches and shared his accumalated "wealth" with this school.
2) This is even better :-What does an eunuch do according to you? People whom we call as "chakkas" whom men and women dread meeting at signals in India, who are ostracised by their families,shunned by society and treated with ridicule by most ? Meet Vijaya - My friend at the signal near Mulund where I stay. She (she prefers to be a woman , attagirl) used to observe a burn mark on my skin which was very irritating but which I was treating with due neglect! She one day surprised me out of my wits when she handed over an ayurvedic cream (quite a reputed one) which she had specifically gotten it for me from the chemist. It was priced at Rs.200. When I asked her why? she said that once in a while eunuchs like to gift back something to people who have most of the things ,instead of taking it from them..
This Diwali a sincere thanks to the almighty for creating two such sould who show us the way out of darkness.
2 comments:
Nice to see that your feelings kannam. It will always a pleasure to share love with every one with their short commings. Appriciate their goodness and ignore their indifferences.
Good one. While the society is continuously pushing the under previleged to the wall, many a time they behave better than all of us. Good., keep posting.
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