Thursday, September 18, 2014

MARY COM




There were a Japanese, a Chinese and an Indian exporting crabs. The boxes belonging to Japanese and Chinese were covered but that of Indian was not covered. The reason given was that “it’s Indian crabs. If one tries to go out of the box, the other will pull him back.” 


This was only a joke. What I want to tell is an Arabian Proverb, which says, “you can give a fool, a thousand intellects, but the only one he wants is yours”. Generally, when we start planting the garden of our life, we glance to one side and notice our neighbor is there, spying. He himself is incapable of growing anything, but he likes to give advice on when to sow our actions, when to fertilize our thoughts, and when to water our achievements. If we listen to what this neighbor is saying, we will end up working for him, and the garden of our life will be our neighbor’s idea. And then we shall never be able to accomplish the task for which we have come on this earth.


In one of the morning prayers at our office, my colleague narrated a proverb, “If we salute our duty, we need not salute anyone else. If we do not salute our duty, we need to salute everyone.” The other day I was seeing the movie “Mary Com”- a Manipuri girl who was four times world boxing champion and won bronze medal in Olympics. Mary Com was  crazy for  boxing, but nobody supported her- not even her father. To such crazy people, God supports. God is always in our soul and God was in the hands of that little Manipuri girl, because she was giving the very best of herself, regardless of whether or not she was noticed, regardless of the money or reward she got paid. She was playing because that was her fate, her joy, her reason for living. 


I was filled by a profound sense of reverence and respect for that Manipuri  girl, who reminded me of a very important lesson: that we each of us have our personal legend to fulfill, and that is all. It doesn’t matter if other people support us or criticize us, or ignore us, or put up with us- we do it  because that is our destiny on this earth, and the fount of all joy. When we talk to God through our work, our duty; nothing else matters.

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