Chinna-Katha ?!

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Dear Friends in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone...

 

I do not know whether one should call it " Chinna-Katha " or something

else. You decide it yourself, after or while reading it, but I

request you not to become emotional while reading the following few

lines. To remain human beings, we need to feel and respond to the

pain and anguish of others, especially when they are in dire need.

Nothing gives more happiness than to give happiness to others.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

 

" Your son is here, " she said to the old man.

 

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes

opened.

 

Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly

saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He

reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers

around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and

encouragement.

 

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the

bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly

lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of

love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine

move away and rest awhile.

 

He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was

oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the

clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members

exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.

 

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man

said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

 

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now

lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While

she did what she had to do, he waited.

 

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but

the Marine interrupted her.

 

" Who was that man? " he asked. The nurse was startled, " He was your

father, " she answered.

 

" No, he wasn't, " the Marine replied. " I never saw him before in my

life. "

 

" Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him? "

 

" I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he

needed his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that

he was too sick

 

to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me,

I stayed. "

 

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.

 

WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A

TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

 

WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

 

PLEASE PASS THIS ON IF YOU WISH, AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU! THIS IS

WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO ANYWAY. RIGHT ? HAVE A GREAT DAY

AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE IN SOME LITTLE WAY TODAY!

GOD IS SO GOOD.