The magic of “giving”..!!

I was reading newspaper today, and an article with the above title grabbed my attention.

It is what you can give that shows your real worth. Once in everybody’s lifetime, a bit of magic that reminds them of the importance of the word “give”. As they say, it’s more blessed to give than to receive. Giving and receiving is like action and reaction in each and every day life. Receiving is always based on what we give to others. If we can give a pinch of love, we will get handful in return.

I believe in giving without any expectations in return. That way I feel more content, happy and satisfied when I see the other person who received. It can be in terms of happiness, advice, or sometimes even finance also, but for the people who is really in the need.

An incident which happened some 5-6 years back, reminds me how giving can be more satisfied. It was only few months after my marriage, my brother was supposed to get operated on his nose as he had breathing problem. I joined my mother in taking care of home and my brother too. My brother was so attached to me; I had to be with him whole day in the hospital. One day, after getting discharged, I came back to hospital with him for the general check up. We were waiting in the out-patient department, I saw an old women sitting on the floor and crying. There was no one seemed to be with her. I couldn’t stop myself helping her out. I asked her gently, that what was her problem and whom is she waiting for. She wiped her tears as she wanted somebody to listen to her and started. She was from some other city and came down to see her son who is married and got settled in Shimoga. One day morning when she was cleaning and washing the compound area, a person on the scooter hit her, when she fell down, the front tyre passed on her right hand. She was screaming out of the pain, but that person didn’t even look back and ran from there as if it becomes a police case. Her son, being so poor, couldn’t take her to any hospital immediately. Next day, when she started crying as she couldn’t resist, her son took her to a government hospital, asked her to wait for the doctor and left from there as he has to go to his daily earning work.

My heart cried for her. I didn’t find her fraudulent, because her hand was swollen and the tears were not stopping out of the pain. I couldn’t help her much apart from giving handful of money out of what I had that time. My tears wished her to get well soon. She did refuse to take money from me initially, but when I forced her to take, she held my hand and said, she’ll be my daughter in the next life and serve me her whole life and also said, God will surely help me when I’m in the need.

This kind of incident never happened in my life, but her blessings worked many a times, I feel. My brother became alright soon. Next year, my husband had to be hospitalized for two months because of some problem in his backbone. I cried and prayed God by my heart for him. Doctor had told us that he might not lead the normal life once he gets operated.

May be that old women’s blessings were with me, he soon became alright surprisingly with a normal treatment and now we are leading a happy life. I often remember that lady who blessed me whole heartedly.

Just a small help to someone, brought so much into my life. As said in Bhagavadgeeta, “Karmanye vadhikaraste, ma phaleshu kadachana” I do my best without expecting the results and so I will be happy.

My re-incarnation

Reincarnation is the next birth of a soul after the death. It is a belief that soul will never die, it is only the body which gets released. The cycle of death and rebirth is governed by karma, which is the sum of one's actions, and the force that determines one's next reincarnation. One is reborn on account of desire: a person desires to be born because he or she wants to enjoy worldly pleasures, which can be enjoyed only through a body. After many births, every person eventually becomes dissatisfied with the limited happiness that worldly pleasures can bring. At this point, a person begins to seek higher forms of happiness, once all desires for the pleasures of the world will vanish, the person will not be reborn anymore. When the cycle of rebirth thus comes to an end, a person is said to have attained moksha, or salvation.

Keeping the beliefs and theories apart, my desire is to be helpful to every one on the earth without expecting anything in return. If given chance, I would like to reborn as a “Mango Tree”, so that I can provide the protection, good health and be useful even after the death. Once my desires get fulfilled and based on the karma that I do being a mango tree, I will not have a re-birth and be with GOD as an angel.