3 Jan 2021 The Epiphany

 

(Some of these pictures will prick the human consciousness till the end of this world. A child in Vietnam burnt due to Napalm bombs)

The Epiphany

What are you fighting for?

Ask an army man!  That you shoot and kill humans like you, across the border!  What are you killing  for?

Ask the scientist who work in the Virology department either in Wuhan, China or in Pune, India or similar!  To spread deadly viruses across the border in a biological warfare!!  What are you researching for?

Ask the nuclear scientist or technicians working in bomb squad! Is not Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Vietnam enough?  What are you testing for?

Your education will fetch you a job in a corporate company that will clandestinely loot the millions of farmers and peasants and daily wage earners!  What are you getting educated for?

Servitude!  Mindless service!  Heartless obedience!!

In 1919 The British General Dwyer shouted at his troops, "Fire" towards the 1000s of people gathered in Jalianwala bhagh, near Amristar, Punjab!  The troops consisted of many Indian soldiers!  They shot down and killed 379 and wounded more than 1200 natives!

The para military and police used brutal force against the peaceful farmers protesting in Delhi!  The very next meal was served by the same farmers!  Whom are you guarding?  What are you protecting?

In servitude, you are not suppose to think for yourself!  You are not suppose to think for your people or for the nation or for the nature or for the globe or for the humanity.  You are a ruthless machine!  You suppose to shoot!  You are suppose to loot!  You suppose to rape and kill under an order!

It is not the army men and police alone!  People know that their politicians are filthily corrupt! Yet, they will elect them again and again and allow them to loot and kill and amass wealth!  Why people?!!  There are "religious leaders" who send circulars to the places of worship to support "their favourite political party" that stands naked and entrenched in the innocent blood of the poor!  They support blood sucking "leeches" and "vampires"!  The country is unable to stand straight due to poverty and emptiness caused by these selfish few!

The soldiers of Herod went a free pulling away children from the chest of their mothers and slaughtered them!  They were dutiful!  They had personally nothing against those innocent children!  They have nothing against soldiers standing across the borders and bobbed wires!  They have nothing against the farmers in Delhi!  They had nothing against the natives in Amritsar!  They have nothing against children in Iraq! They have nothing against people in El-Salvador!  Therefore, how can they have anything against those innocent babies under age, two?

They are just Hired killers!  They kill for a little money!  They kill for a little land!  They kill for a little position!  They need that little money; to feed them and their family!  The rulers know their need and  weakness!  They punch on it that they lose their consciousness and become numb!

We don't kill only with bullets and swords alone!

When you bribe to get a signature for an approval or a licence you will earn them back sucking many innocents who come to you!

When you accumulate or misappropriate that don't belong to you, you are using a clever and cunning system which makes many poor! and promote hunger and poverty!

When you demand more money for your service, when you expect a commission to grant legitimate  contracts, when you misuse authority to suppress legitimacy there is a Herod active in you!

Attitude and Justification is the core of the issue!

I have my justification for all what I do!  You have your justification for all what you do!  Herod had his justifications!  The rulers of this world have their justifications!

In the name of my democracy!,  In the name of my nationalism!, In the name of my ideology!,  In the name my communism!, In the name of my capitalism!,  In the name of my religion!, In the name of my God!  and what not!

"The new born, the so called messiah might disturb the tranquillity of my society and my authority", probably Herod thought so! Shankar Guha Niyogi, Jeyaprakash Narayan, Father Stan Lordusamy, Gandhi, Journalsits, Writers, Social activists and many such people "disturb" the tranquillity of the society!

Three wise men!  They were from the east, the scriptures say!  They had Gold, frankincense and myrrh to be gifted to the mother!  They had an astrological knowledge that predicted a new chapter in the world!  That is why the search, a long travel and reaching Jerusalem, asking Herod if he knew about it.  Herod said, "I also want to "worship" him."  "Report back" he requested!  But, they went back treading a different path!  They saved the child!  They saved themselves!

Collaboration with an unjust system not only eliminates the innocent but finally you too!

Jan 1, 2021 Mary Mother of God

 

Mary mother of God!

Happy New Year!

I have two boys with me; one in 3rd year B.Com and his younger brother in 12th standard.  When the  younger one was in his mother's womb their father died of cancer.  When the younger one was only 4 years, the mother deserted both of them and have not come to see them even once!

2014!  I used to watch and enjoy Vijay Super singer!  There was this boy Senthilnathan!  Blind and mentally challenged!  He participated in the show, singing!  I used to be in tears whenever he completes singing!  When he was a baby their parents had thrown him on the seashore of  Thiruchendur.  To this show, Senthil was always accompanied by "Pathri" who himself was blind, married to a blind person but were caring about 600 such children!

So, Just because you have given birth to a baby, you don't become a "mother"!  or just because you carried a fetus for 10 months you don't become a mother!  Legally, biologically, DNA wise you may claim your mother status but not your motherhood!

In the same way, Just because one is a male, does not mean he cannot become a mother!  Mr. Pathri is to me a wonderful mother!  And just because you don't get married, does not mean you cannot become a mother or a father!  For example, a nun by name Teresa became Mother Teresa!

Motherhood goes much beyond womanhood!

Also you don't have to have a baby or a child  to claim or prove your motherhood.  In the next village, we have a man who had met with an accident and lost his mental balance and became totally dependent.  He has two children and had a wife.  When he became mentally challenged his wife deserted him.  But his father; must be nearing 70, cares him like a child!  Man can become a mother!  A needy person can bring forth a mother too!

Normally, bearing a child and caring a child makes someone a mother!  For bearing a child, you need another person, good health and good environment!  But caring needs your personal decision and disposition alone!

I have visited the service centres of the Little sisters of the poor! Their home for children, old age homes and so on!  Oh! my God!  They are literally to be adored!  Their service to humanity is matchless! 

Similarly I have seen nuns and nurses who work in leprosarium and hospitals!!  They move your hearts with their unblemished commitment and care!

Humanity needs care!  It thirsts for someone to touch and say, "I am with you"!

People in prisons, the aged ones, the sick in the hospital and those who cannot afford hospital, the orphaned children, the street children, the slum dwellers, millions of farmers who toil day and night to feed this earth, the deserted parents, the grandparents who are alienated from the younger ones in the family, the aged religious in your community, sexually exploited women and children, those denied their rights and languish in poverty and cruelties, the child workers, domestic employees treated like slaves and so many around you thirst for a caring mother!

A laying of hand on their shoulder with an impeccable love will make their day!  A shared portion of your food from your table (I say TABLE; not before dumping in the waste basket) will make their day!  A good portion of your time spend with the lonely will make their day! A visit to the sick, uncared, those in prison will make their day!

Thousands of babies are being delivered everyday!  We don't run short of them!  We are looking forward to the delivery of a mother!  We need mothers, who cares and loves!!

There is a mother in you!  Deliver it!!

 

The Holy Family Dec 27 2020

 

Return to your Family!

The holy family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus was simple, loving, wonderful, compassionate and beautiful; are all our imagination and expectation!  Imagination, of that family and expectation of my family!!

A family is filled with rights and duties.  For example, Children do enjoy their rights from parents.  When it is their turn to take care of the parents especially when they are old and sick; it is parents right and children's duty!

In the last couple of decades we hear more of rights in the entire spectrum of society!  Rights of workers, Rights of women, Rights of children, Rights of natives, Rights of prisoners, Rights of minorities, Right to livelihood and so on! 

Because there was the other extreme!  Exploitation, Denial of equality, Child abuse, Slavery, Colonization, violations and so on!  Emancipation of humanity needs to address, face and answer such crucial issues.

But I believe there must be a personal evaluation on all of these!

When I speak of my right, When I demand my right, When I achieve what is rightful, Do I also think of my duties, what I need to deliver to the society, my neighbourhood and my family.

As the bread winner of the family or as the head of the family you may have the right to spend your earnings the way you want and  the way you decide!  But what about the need of the children and the rest of the family?  You may have to strike the right balance between extravagance and needs.  Luxury and essentials!  Consciousness of rights alone can drag you to one extreme but consciousness of your duties will calmly and compassionately bring you to a balance.

It is the same with child right too!  People become so very conscious of child right that it goes to the extent of pampering than a responsible bringing up. Children who cannot take criticism and correction grow up as weak characters.  That is how you see, so many chubby figures around with a weak mind and will.

Because there was child labour and child exploitation, we all quickly moved into child protection.  We became so very protective of our children that they lost all exposures and grow up as broiler chickens.

·         The un-proportionate infiltration of social media, mobile phones, televisions have taken away our traditional family spirit and union.  You commonly see people glued to mobile phones on dining tables, group meetings, churches and so on! 

·         Private consumption of alcohol has ruined the economy and peace of several of our families.

·         Individualism and consumerism that has crept into the society have shattered social harmony.

The only way to reconstruct this society is to return to the family!  The roots lie there.

Look at the hen and the chicks!  You learn so many lessons from them!  There is protection; protection from enemies, protection from cold and heat, there is freedom under watchful eyes, there is feeding, there is a lesson how to fetch food, how to defend oneself, there is a bit of exploitation (picking the worms); but all in a very balanced and apt manner.  The hen does not control when the chicks need to be independent.  The hen does not allow too much of a free movements when they are young. You must know when to protect and when to set free.

The 21 days of hatching and then parenting is like total giving up of oneself for the sake of its "kids"!

They won't give mobiles to kids!  They will sacrifice movies and TVs when their chicks have exams!  They will first feed the chicks before spending for a booze or a party!  They will value education more than jewellery and ornaments! Birds and animals seem to know exactly when to be liberal and when to be protective. 

Therefore, Sow! what you want to reap!  Be sure to reap what you sow!

Teach your children by example not just by advices alone!  If you parents, use unfit and bad language at each other and then advice your children to be modest and respectful, it's going to be difficult until they learn a hard lesson at the hands of somebody else!

When you come home late after loitering, be sure soon your son would follow afoot!  If you are spent thrift don't expect your children to save and spent!

If you use hard words against your siblings, your children would do the same to their siblings.  No point in regretting later.

Therefore today, Let us not too much worry about how holy, the family of Nazareth was!  That may lead you to piety and prayers! Rather it would be useful and practical to make my family a holy family!

Holiness is not equivalent to prayers and pious activities alone.   Don't think sainthood alone is the mark of holiness!  There are millions of saints all around!  Daddy sacrifices his needs just to fulfil the dreams of his children is nothing short of an act of holiness.  When children realize their father's greatness and  are careful in their spending is also an attitude of love.  Love is nothing but holiness.  A single parent bear all the emotional pains but put up with them just for the sake of their children is an expression of holiness.  I have seen several mothers in villages save everything for their kids, is to me is holiness!  The best place where you can nurture holiness is your home!  Cultivate holiness!  A lot of our complaints and dissatisfaction about the society today actually had its seedlings and roots at our home.

Carelessness, Indifference, Consumerism, Individualism; all were learnt at home!  Love, Generosity, Sacrifice, Care, Mutual respect, Godliness are also learnt from home!!

Those of us who left their homes for service to humanity please do extend your home now!  Your little "tent" where you have your "quilt" is not your home.  Let your "family" be filled with people around you especially the poor and the needy.  You had crossed the borders of your biological family to serve humanity not your "tent" and "tenant"!

It is not the presence of Jesus, Mary and Joseph makes your home, holy!  It is your love, your charity, your concern, your care, your compassion makes your home holy.  They love to be present where the environment smells holy! 

Christmas! He did! Why not me!?

 He did then!!  Why not me, now?

I do enjoy watching Judge Caprio Francesco in the court rooms of Rhode Island, USA.  He is 84 and his way of delivering Justice is far different from that of the usual court rooms where Justice is impartial, objective and blind folded!

Francesco not only looks at the violations but compassionately understands the life and situation of the individual (in common language), the accused!  He treats every person as a human and not as a case to be judged!  He looks at persons with hope not just past incidents alone!

In Francesco, a judge became human!

Farmers from Punjab and other states are in Delhi capital demanding the withdrawal of laws against the peasants of the country.   Police lathi-charged and tear-gased them.    Many wounded were profusely bleeding.  But that very day, these very farmers were serving food to the policemen who had wounded them, saying, "after all, they are our children and the government unfortunately had put them against us!"

Farmers are very humane!

Sister Rani Maria was stabbed to death in Nachambore hills, M.P. by one Samandar Singh. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.  Her nun sister Salomi and her mother visited Singh in the jail and kissed his hand and forgave him.  Later they personally went to the governor of the sate pleading his release.

Sr. Salomi and her mother from their sisterhood and motherhood moved forward to become human to Samandar singh through their forgiveness.

God also became Human.

Christmas was the beginning of God becoming human! 

If there was a will of God being enacted in the biological birth of Jesus, then that itself is telling!  For instance, His choice of a family to be born was poor!  His choice of a spot where he should be born was a manger! His choice of a race in which he should be born was one, that was going through a twofold suppression; the Jewish leadership and the Roman hegemony!  I thank God for being partial, partial to the poor!! That is why Mary said, "He exalts the humble and brings down the mighty"

If they were all attributed to the  will of God, I say, "Thank you God!".  But I am more interested in and admire of the grownup Jesus!

He saved a woman in the temple premises from being stoned!  He entered into the "shell" of Zachaeus and made him socially acceptable!  He openly admired the poor widow who dropped her two coins! He eulogised the repenting tax collector in the prayer hall!  He healed the sick not minding whether it is Sabbath or not!   He felt closeness with the poor, He sided with the oppressed, His philosophy is pro poor!  He attempted to destabilize the established religion that promoted guilt and distanced God!

It is easy and comfortable to celebrated the Jesus of Bethlehem!

But the grown up Jesus was comforting, compassionate, controversial, rebellious and a challenging one!  We need to admire, understand and imbibe him!

Both the biological birth of Jesus and the evolving of Jesus the Christ have now become history. It is because of the latter the farmer becomes important.  The Latter is the paradigm.  The farmer is an event.

The paradigm involves you and me. It has a compelling invitation.  It is not a dead past!  The paradigm is alive and related to the present!

That is how many say, "Jesus is alive"!  But you can easily put an end to him if you stop with the crib and the carols, mass and churches, food and celebration!

Move, to become a human!

I am a woman, I am rich, I am a politician, I am a communist, I am a teacher, I am a priest, I am a religious! I am a policeman! I am aggressive! I am God!

Get moving from where you are! Become human!

Teresa was a nun!  When she walked around the streets of Kolkotta, she encountered the sick and the dying, she became human!

There was a priest, Levite and a Samaritan!  They all walked on the same lane!  All the three saw a wounded man on the way!  Two continued to be a priest and a sacristan!  The Samaritan became human!

When Dr Kalam met with crippled persons he was moved and was disturbed. As a result, from defence laboratories, weightless callipers were made.  The nose cone of Agni missile was made of  glass filled with polypropylene.  At the initiative of Dr. Kalam the weight of a Calliper was reduced from 4 kg to 300 grams. He sees this as one of the greatest achievements.  A scientist who worked for defence materials became human!

The basic call of every person is to become human!

Police, Lawyer, Scientist, Priest, Teacher, Sweeper, gods and goddesses  are all functional and temporal!  For societal existence and continuance they are important and necessary.  

Imagine; you are a nun and inhuman!  What is the use?  Police and inhuman, hit and kill people!  Officer and inhuman; bribe and loot!

Fr. George Zebelka was a chaplain in the 509th composite group, the atomic bomb group in USA during the II world war.  He was the one who blessed both the aircrafts that carried the atom bombs that erased huge number of human lives in a few seconds! Of course, later he got converted to the side of non violence.

Your profession is incidental!  Excellence in profession is development!  But excellence minus humanness is barbarism!  You see it in business today, politics today, medicine today, governance today, religion today!

Incarnation is all about becoming human!  God did it in Jesus!  and Jesus accomplished it!!  God did it in you and me too!  will I accomplish it?  

Happy Christmas!  Also for all those who want to celebrate it on 25th December as well

4th Sunday of Advent 2020 The (Im)possibilities!

 

The (Im)possibilities!

What is impossible to the human minds and mundane science, becomes possible for God!   A virgin bears a child and a barren woman also brings forth a child!

Let us take a distance from its theology.  But go closer to the spirituality of the content!

Theology is static that leads to sets of believes which can drag you to be a fundamentalist.  Whereas spirituality is dynamic and leads you to faith (openness) and makes you human, compassionate, encompassing and simple.  Since our concern here is not theologising the content, we don't have to enter into the event or historical narration of the same, which may be interesting but not our concern now!

There are so many things that are considered to be or proven to be impossible in this world.

There are several Christian churches that don't accept church tax and community rights of other caste believers.  There is a Caste wall in a cemetery that divides the faithful.  There is a Trouser Church where the faithful sit in two segments of the church and participate in the same mass!  Can these and similar be overcome? Impossible Is isn't it?

Can India and Pakistan sit at a table to sort out their differences and save millions and millions of their money spent on military and weapon and focus on development?  Impossible, Is isn't it?

Can corporate companies and , Multi National business entities stop looting the peasants, natives  and the locals? Impossible, Is isn't it?

Will politicians stop using religion, caste and petty politics to divide the common man to chew political power?  Impossible, Is isn't it?

Can the "Cleric pinnacled"  pyramidical structure in the church give way to a communitarian church?  Impossible, Is isn't it?

Can business be exploitation free? Can women enjoy freedom and equality in the society? Will we stop taking bribe?  Will you stop giving bribe?  Will we stop taking dowry?  Will we stop exploiting the workers?  Will we stop treating physical labour as menial labour?  Impossible, Is isn't it?

We often expect God to do the impossibilities!  We pray intensely to make God perform the most toughest jobs!  We plead or force God to make changes in the other especially in our enemies and not in us!  We try hard to make God, act!  Isn't that true?

On the other hand; we do the easiest, the ones that pleases us, the ones that we enjoy however ruthless it is, the ones that are self satisfying however unjust and exploitative it is!

I don't want to go through the simplest pain!  I sit in the church in such a comfortable place where I don't have to face the ones I dislike!  I am not willing to shake hand with my neighbour!  I am not ready to forgive my own people who might have hurt me or I had hurt them!  I don't want to part with a bit of my savings for the deserving ones of my society!  I don't want to stop bargaining with the street vendors!  I don't stop shopping in posh malls where I unjustly and stupidly dump money to the rich!

Forget for a while about the impossibilities of my tough reach!  Think first of the possibilities that are within my easy reach with a slight possible effort!

We sit in church couches wondering and exclaiming and praising God performing the impossibilities!  How comfortable it is!  How nice it is to think of God, the all powerful!  We watch him like as we get  glued to magician PC Sorcar!

The impossibilities of this world are human made!  Unless we begin somewhere to lay hands on the impossibilities,  God is not going to perform magic shows!

Visitation of Mary is in fact an invitation to us;

Step out and visit!

Step out of your narrow mindedness and begin visiting the humans around!

Step out of your Ghetto to meet other people! (prince Siddhartha did it and we had Buddha)

Get out of your passive Comfort Zones to reach the needy (Sr. Anjeze did it and we had Mother Teresa)

Break your shell, Break open your prison!  Break your prejudices!  Break your excuses!  and "Visit"!  Don't quote your positions, riches and privileges  as reasons why others should reach you or ask you or beg you or plead  you!

Reach does not mean you have to drive your car 400 km to reach someone to say hello! There are now 101 ways to reach people.  Therefore,  begin to say hello, begin to say sorry, begin to say thank you.

Yes, Everything is Possible!, also for God!!

3rd Sunday Advent. We need YOU, not your Mask!!

 

We need YOU! not your MASK!!

This young man in Chennai  Babu, was a painter earning about 12,000 rupees a month.  He met a motivational writer and began sharing and discussing about his life.  The writer asked him, "what are your interests?"  Babu, while narrating a few of his interests also mentioned that he likes to be with pet animals.

A few days after this conversation, the writer, phoned Babu and asked, "Would you like to take a dog for a walk?  There is a family in my apartment which works in the IT field;  has a pet dog.  They would be happy to have someone take their dog for a walk both in the morning and evening.  They are willing to pay 2500 per month."  Babu was enthralled and accepted.  The writer that very day with the permission of the apartment secretary put up a note, "if anyone needs assistance to take their pets for a walk, there is someone available.  Kindly contact me!"  There were 12 who came forward.  Not only, Babu's income increased, but also he began to enjoy his carrier.  After a while, the writer left this apartment to a newer place. And after a couple of years one fine morning there stood an young man at his gate.  "Sir, I am Babu.  Do you remember me?" and then he offered him a sweet box saying, "I have now 25 youngsters working under me for this Dog walk.  I need one more of your help. Some talk about websites.   I need to create a website where people can contact us..."

Work on YOUR interest!  Work on your gifts and talents!  Don't under estimate your interest and  talent! And, don't compare it with other's!!

As a young boy, Mustafa was struggling for 3 meals a day.  He was a school dropout.  Like many others, he pursued hard, came back to school and fared well and got a lucrative job.  His father cried seeing his first salary.  But his thirst to come up in life did not end there.   He started making Idly batter in a minuscule way and today he employs 2000 rural youngsters in his 'ID idly dosa batter industry'.  His turn over is far beyond imagination running into hundreds of crores!

Focus on YOUR talent and carrier!  Don't waste your time gazing at someone else's carrier and achievement!

Very often we get distracted with the talents of others.  Don't regret that you don't sing like Elvis Presley or Celine Deon.  You don't have to!  Others can be an inspiration but certainly not for imitation, even if it is Jesus!  Don't imitate any one!  You cannot and need not!  By attempting to do so, you will waste time and energy.  On the other hand, Be yourself!  Don't pretend to be another.

We cultivate and get rooted in opinions, often illogical and imaginary.  We have wrong opinions about jobs, for example; lower and higher! physical and intellectual! menial and skilful and so on.

We cultivate and sink into wrong opinions about people; their colour and race, caste and group, religion and country.  We divide everything and fix them in gradation.  White is better than dark!  Europe is better than Asia! Christianity is better than Islam! and what not?

John the Baptist had  an appearance, way of speaking, type of courage, act of baptism almost like that of messianic image that the people had developed!   He fitted very well to that imagination people had nurtured for centuries.  Therefore, they ask him, "Are you the one?"  "No! I am not" was his strong reply.  I like that cogent and sincere expression!  Some people when they can grow long hair, begin to think they have become Christ!

How often we take claims and credits which we don't deserve!

Marconi claimed he invented Radio not the original Nikola Tesla.  Jack Daniel claimed for Tennessee Whisky.  It took 150 years to give the real credit to the slave who worked for it, Nearest Green.  Heinrich Goebel is not heard of in the invention of the bulb but Thomas Alva Edison!

Slums easily get encroached and demolished by the rich!  The middle men and now the corporate can loot the hard earned agro products of the millions of farmers here!  Neo colonialism through food and medicine as weapons can hang the freedom of millions of humans! Mindless Deforestation does destroy the future of this earth.

Plagiarism, encroachment, theft, false claims ruin humanity.

Cultivate your SELF which is unique and beautiful.  There is no one like you in this entire world; ever and never.  When you fail to construct yourself and your image, you begin to get lost into an act of imitation.  We need you!  The entire universe needs you!  Not your mask!  We don't need Jesus again or Bhuddha again, or Gandhi again.  But we need YOU!  Your uniqueness is an incomparable contribution! 

Lower (self) image, undue humility, Grabbing mind, Craze for popularity ruins the self and inner peace.  When there is inner commotion instead of peace, it spills over to the outer realm.  Then we throw nuclear bombs, release viruses, get ready with mass destructive weapons, swords, bullets, ideologies to numb human mind  and other such.  Those who have no access to any of it, "gleefully" do character assassination!

When you want to remedy and cultivate your 'Self Worth' kindly be watchful that it does not reach the other extreme, selfishness!

Dec 8 மாசற்ற மரியாள்! Mary Immaculate

 

மாசற்ற மரியாள்!  அமலோற்பவத் தாய்!

ஒரு 30 அல்லது 40 வாக்குகளை வாங்கி ஒரு வார்டு பிரதிநிதியாகி விடுகிற ஒருவர் தோளில் ஒரு துண்டையும் வெள்ளை வேட்டியையும் அணிந்து கொண்டு செய்கிற அலம்பல் சில நேரங்களில் அறுவெறுக்க வைக்கிறது!  சிலரை அச்சம் கொள்ளவும் வைக்கிறது!  காக்கிச் சட்டை போட்டுவிட்டால் கை நீளுகிறது!  அதிகார மேசையில் உட்கார்ந்துவிட்டால் பூமி அவர்களுக்கு கீழே சுற்றுகிறது!  

இந்தியாவின் இரண்டாவது தலைமையமைச்சர் லால் பகதூர் சாஸ்திரி ஒரு முறை துணி நெய்யும் ஆலையை பார்வையிடச் சென்றார்.  ஆலை அதிபர், அங்கு நெய்த பல துணிகளை காட்டிக் கொண்டு வந்தார். “இங்கு நெய்த சேலைகளை காண்பியுங்கள்” என்றார்.  அவரும் காண்பித்தார்.  “விலை என்ன?” என்று கேட்டார்.  “1000” என்றார். “கொஞ்சம் மலிவானதாக காட்டுங்கள்” என்றார்.  500, 400 க்கு வந்த பின்னரும் தன் நிலைக்கு அது அதிகமாகவே பட்டது!  ஆலை அதிபர் சொன்னார், “பிரதமருக்கு இதெல்லாம் பரிசாகத் தரப்போகிறோம்” என்றார்.  சாஸ்திரி முற்றிலுமாக அதை மறுத்துவிட்டு இறுதியில் மிக மலிவான சேலைகளையே விலை கொடுத்து தன் மனைவிக்கு வாங்கிச் சென்றார்.  இப்படி அவர் வாழ்க்கையில் ஏராளமான நிகழ்வுகளைச் சொல்வார்கள்.  பிரதமரானாலும் தன் எளிமையை அவர் கைவிடவில்லை.  பிரதமராக இருப்பதனால் எந்த சலுகையையும் அவர் ஏற்றுக் கொள்ளவில்லை.

இன்றைக்கு சாதாரண அரசியல்வாதியோ உயரதிகாரியோ அப்படி ஒரு ஆலையைப் பார்த்தால், மொத்த ஆலைக்குமே அடிபோட்டு விடுவார்கள்!

பெரும்பாலோர் அதிகாரத்தை ஆணவத்தோடு கையாளுகிறார்கள். வெகுசிலரே எளிமையோடும் சேவைக்காகவும் பயன்படுத்துகிறார்கள்.

மரியாள் நமக்கு மிகச் சிறந்த எடுத்துக்காட்டு!

மரியாளைப் பற்றி விவிலியத்தைவிட திருக்குரான் அற்புதமான பல செய்திகளைக் கூறுகிறது!  அல்லாவால் அருளப்பட்ட மாமனுஷி என்றே அது அவளைக் கருதுகிறது!  அப்படிப்பட்டவள் அன்றும் இன்றும் எளிமையின் கோலம் பூண்டே இருக்கிறாள்!

திருவிலிவியத்தில் அவள் ஓர்அமைதியின் பேழையாகவே காட்சியளிக்கிறாள்!  சோகச் சூறாவளி அவள் இதயத்தை நார்நாராகக் கிழித்துத் தொங்கவிட்டபோதும் கூட அவைகளை இடிதாங்கி போல அவள் பொறுத்துக் கொள்கிறாள்!

அவளது கன்னிமை, கற்பு, அமல உற்பவம், வணக்கத்திற்குரியவளா இல்லையா போன்ற வறட்டு விவாதங்களில் மூளையை முற்றிலுமாக காலி செய்தவர்கள் இங்கு உண்டு!  இற்றுப் போன இதயங்களிலிருந்து இறையியலை விற்றுக் கொண்டிருக்கிற வியாபாரிகள் இவர்கள்!  அவர்களையும் சேர்த்தே அவள் அரவணைத்துக் கொள்கிறாள்.  அவர்களுக்கும் சேர்த்தே சிலுவையில் இயேசு, “இதோ உன் தாய்” என்று விட்டுச் செல்கிறார்!

மாதாவை ஏற்றுக் கொள்கிறவர்கள் வெறுப்பாளர்களாய் இருக்க முடியாது!

மாதாவை ஏற்றுக் கொள்கிறவர்கள் வன்முறையாளர்களாய் இருக்க முடியாது!

மாதாவை ஏற்றுக் கொள்கிறவர்கள் களவு செய்ய முடியாது, கையூட்டு பெற முடியாது!

மாதாவை ஏற்றுக் கொள்கிறவர்களுக்கு திருக்குடும்பம் என்பது தன் குடும்பமே!

எப்படி மாதாவுக்கு தன் குடும்பம் என்பது நம் குடும்பத்தையும் உள்ளடக்கியதோ அது போன்றே உன் குடும்பம் என்பது விசாலமானதாய் இருக்கட்டும்.  ஏழைகளை இலலாதவர்களை சோர்வுற்றோரை எளியோரை உன்னவராக்கு!  உன்னை அவர் தன்னவராக்கிக் கொள்வார்!ஆ

ஆக, தூய்மை என்பது துடைத்து எடுப்பதல்ல!  நல்லவற்றால் நிரப்புவதே தூய்மை!