The JOY OF GIVING
Vaibhavi Dhotre
From times immemorial “love” has been talked about and also written in every religion, by every great thinker, philosopher and leaders. Love is the greatest power in universe.
It is not just a feeling but a positive force of life. It is the sole cause of everything positive and good. Thus love for one’s child may end up making a person an ideal parent, love for music may end up making a person best musician, love for dance may end up making a person best dancer. Every living being on this earth be it birds, ants, animals and humans has one thing in common they look for, they hanker for is love. Our relation with other human is based on the intensity of love we share,
which determines the level of intimacy, affection and care. Love is the ultimate weapon which governs the world. However in today’s world people tend to be more selfish than magnanimous .Yet everyone wants to be loved to love. But people fail to understand that if only they give unconditional love they will receive it. People mostly follow an intention to exploit everything they can. Though some are successful in giving unconditional love. Love develops friendship, relationship, motherhood, brotherhood and many more things.
The loving bond just gets stronger by expressing a gift of gratitude. According to this principle we celebrate different days like father’s day, friendship day, Valentine’s day and similarly we also celebrate mother’s day. Mother’s day is a holiday celebrated annually as a tribute to all mothers and
motherhood. It is celebrated at different dates in different countries. Here it is celebrated on 8th of May. It began in the United States of America (USA) in early 20th century. It was first celebrated in 1908 in Grafton, West Virginia, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother Ann Reeves Jarvis who in turn many years earlier had founded “mother’s day work clubs” in five cities and began a campaign to make mother’s day a national holiday and succeeded in 1914, when the president Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May a Mother’s day.
The mother’s love is the purest form of love on earth. It gives us a glimpse in the spiritual realm of love. The evolution of human consciousness is how we go from need to take and to the joy of giving. For love is a fundamental essential need. For in love hides the joy of giving. For mother her joy is in simply giving. She will stay up the whole night giving protection, nourishment, care to her little child. For mother the only goal is to make her child happy that is her happiness.
Mother gives unconditionally without any selfish expectations. Mother is the holy word meaning love. Mother is the best example of patients she exhibits in life threatening labor pains. She is an
example of tolerance . Her love is beyond measures. Here is a great example of motherhood which crossed the laws of nature. It is a true story depicting an intimate loving relation of lioness with her prey . Mother lioness and her one week old cub shared a beautiful loving relation. The lion who protected them from other ferocious lions was killed and now the lioness was responsible for protection of her one left cub. Though strong she was she could not compare the strength of a lion.
One fine day the cub was eaten by other lions, the mother lioness had failed to protect her cub. Lost in separation of her lion and cub the lioness had not eaten for may be a week. Akin to her condition there came a lost deer’s lamb searching for its mother, it was too small to eat grass and too small to run. The lioness rather than eating it started protecting it from other predators. Lioness started living with it going against the laws of nature, treating her prey as her own cub. She was just giving care, protection, love irrespective of it being a deer’s lamb. This was a wonderful example of a mother’s love which is unconditional. Here it depicts that the orphan children though exempt from family love after being adopted share the same relation with their mothers though these are not their real mothers.
For love is ultimate and has no boundaries. For everything is fair in love and war.
(Vaibhavi Dhotre is a student of ILS law college, Pune.)
