GIVING... IT DOESN'T EMPTY OUR HEARTS
“Sir, may I come in?”
Nine-year-old Yomie
was standing at the door, holding a paper-plate.
The class was packed,
and all our young-students looked towards the door and smiled.
“Oh darling, come
in,” I exclaimed, “so sweet of you… What is this?”
“Sir, this is ‘Prasad’ from Gurudwara… for you,” Yomie announced handing over the plate, “today
is Guru Nanak Jayanti.”
“Say Good Moring to
everyone here,” I twisted Yomie to face the packed classroom.
“Hi Good Morning,”
said Yomie, wearing a sunny smile and an equally sunny confidence.
With that, the little
fellow disappeared… leaving my heart smiling with lots of happiness.
The room was packed
and the class was on… Look at the innocence… Look at the purity of human heart…
Look at the natural self-confidence… Look at the power of acceptance… Look at
the magic of love…
“All this goes out of
your system as you grow older,” I told the college kids, my tongue firmly
tucked inside my cheeks, “We just need to be simple and uncomplicated at our
hearts.”
Little Yomie loves me!
When my students give
me chocolates on their birthdays, I offer them to small kids who play outside
my class. Just some days back, a friend of mine had given me some lovely
home-made chocolates… I had passed many of them to Yomie, his twin sister
Vishaka and all their friends. They were very happy.
So, Yomie loves me…
for my chocolates?
I don’t think so…
Yomie is essentially
a ‘giving’ person… He has unveiled this side of his personality, several times, to me…
Not just by bringing for
me from his home some goodies… but, by asking me, so often, this: “Sir, may I
help you?”
To become ‘conscious’
of this trait, that early in life, takes a great deal of grooming from parents
at home… They inculcate such values in their children… Yes, they do.
But, I seriously
feel, each child is born with his own – inherent – sensitivity, too…
That’s why, often, even
if your parents are extremely sensitive and caring on this issue, you may not
imbibe in you this sensitive and caring trait…
On the other hand,
many times, even if your parents are ignorant on this issue and remain insensitive,
you may still develop extra-ordinary sensitivity and become a giving soul!
Therefore, I,
personally, think that kids, such as Yomie, are naturally endowed with this
sensitivity… and, coupled with parents’ guidance, they really flower
beautifully in Life.
Blessed are these
souls!
There are a hundred ways in which we can ‘give’… and, all of them
come from our deep desire to share our joy and happiness… to make others joyful
as we become joyful… to help others as we become empowered…
Giving only makes
more space in our hearts to receive more… It doesn’t empty our hearts!
That’s the spiritual
law of giving…
“Until we give, we
don’t receive…
The lighter we are, the stronger we feel…
The more we give, even
more we receive!”
I really wonder: “What
if God was to ‘give’ us what we really ‘deserved’!”
And, I so wonder even
though I am, repeatedly, told that He gives us only what we deserve!
Little Yomie’s small paper-plate had so much to ‘give me’,
today…
“Thank you, my
darling… May God bless you!”
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pics.: Pragati Dudi
Comments
- Uma
Keep enlightening us sir.....thanks.....