Showing posts with label Purpose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purpose. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 December 2022
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Tuesday, 10 March 2020
The Divine
Once a mom, always a mom ! I have heard
this since childhood. And have wondered ! Why not “ once a dad, always a dad”?
A bit of a foolish question, that !
The cosmic artist has carved out mother and
child from the same stone. Imagine ! When you see your child, made in your
image, with your blood and tissue, it is just like an experience of the soul
being an integral part of the Divine.
How can one make light of this reality ?
And specially when it comes to aborting a child, and a girl child .
I haven’t seen a mom whose face doesn’t
light up at the mention of her child. To her, her child will always be like a
child, whatever the age. And she will always protect and counsel her child.
Maybe, sometimes, adult children may feel that they don’t need this anymore.
But the happiness a mom gets by being loved by her children is unimaginable.
And the satisfaction she gets by counselling them is also part of her need to
protect. And expects her child to understand that.
If children have clear eyes, they would see
that they have had someone holding an umbrella above them each second so that
they are shielded from the sun. And they are blessed. Like I feel I am, despite
many wars fought with the mom .
Folks , moms are moms and never do we quite
have any relationship like this one.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 5 January 2020
Issue of acceptance
There will always be this issue of
acceptance from and by people. We must necessarily be controlled and
circumspect, though we might be pining to be free like a bird and do exactly as
we please.
The need of being accepted stems from the
human angle only, because of dependency on each other, as the famous saying goes:
no man is an island. So, we follow rules. Allow our hearts to sing but keep a
befitting exterior. Allow our anger to kill someone in our thoughts but smile
and shake hands. Have several issues within but on being asked if we are okay,
pat comes the reply,” no problem”.
In a way, we are all split personalities,
always living more than one role, within and without. And even those change
into multiple roles depending on situations.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Compassion
That extra modicum of compassion! A heart
without compassion does not beat in a healthy way. Many of us feel we have
"enough" compassion but what that "enough" actually is, no
one can quantify. Neither is it easy to spell out when and where that
compassion becomes unnecessary, when it gets taken for granted and doesn't
serve a purpose, sounds callous but it is not. People tend to take advantage of
this pure feeling as well.
On the other hand, if the hands of
compassion were absent, we would be deprived of the experience of inter
connectivity, which would be a huge loss to humanity. We would be robots
without the beautiful feelings that we are endowed with.
But ultimately, we do judge compassion on
our own capacity for giving it as well as observing the capacity of others,
hopefully learning from the latter.
We always profess to rule that doctors and
nurses must have a great amount of compassion but do they all have it? In fact,
all humans were meant to have it. Do they? Mercy, empathy, kindness are all off
shoots of compassion. And love is the core. Do we have enough? And if we do,
how much is "enough”?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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