Helping The Helpless - A Way To Fulfill The Duty To Divine

The opening lines of the first section ‘The Burial of the Dead’ of The Waste Land; says ‘April is the cruellest month’. T S Eliot, the poet has given voice to the collapse of civilization and portrayed the devastated world after the First World War. After almost 100 years the line has proven true once again with the apocalyptic April which has traumatized everyone by the devastating superspreader coronavirus. New strategies and medical research to fight against the pandemic were on the anvil when the second wave attacked us more fiercely and left us all shattered.  Patients waiting for medical support, kin standing in queues for oxygen cylinders, medicines and beds and black marketing of life saver injections and fraud are giving the gruesome picture of India’s shambolic response to the second wave of the global pandemic.

Helping The Helpless Is The Supreme Duty To Divine

While people are making advantages of this catastrophe the era witnesses thousands who have turned up as angels in such times of distress and agony, helping the needy and the deprived ones. Young volunteers, social media groups and many societies are helping hundreds of Covid patients getting beds and medicines. One of the heroes who has touched many hearts is an auto-rickshaw driver, Javed Khan from Bhopal. Javed has sold his wife’s jewellery to get his auto improvised as an ambulance to ferry the Covid patients and set an example that you need not be wealthy to help others; you just have to have good intentions and altruistic attitude.

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Helping arouses hope and hope makes the sufferings and difficulties bearable. If we hope that tomorrow will be better, we can easily bear a hardship today. When we get involved in acts of benevolence and become generous to others, it takes our mind off despondency and gives us the much needed impetus to cope with feelings of anxiety, fear and negativity.

Joy of Giving is Greater than Joy of Receiving:

Everyone is going through an emotional mayhem these days and it feels there’s no respite. We try to keep us happy and positive thinkers yet failing to do so because the suffering around us is restraining us; which is a clear sign of being human, yes, we cannot detach ourselves from others’ pain and agonizing circumstances because we all are humans and we get affected to see people losing their loved ones. And the best solution to keep calm and contented is to lend a helping hand; to reach out to someone who is in dire need and you can fulfill that. Joy of giving is always greater than joy of receiving because it purifies our mind, gifts us a sense of contentment and makes us realize our worth as a humane. We see so many organizations working relentlessly to save lives, if you feel you can add one hand, espouse the larger cause and cultivate the sense of self-sufficiency.

Charity Begins at Home:

As explained by Mother Teresa, one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20^th century, “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” So don’t think how many people you can reach but find the person around you who is in need, or deprived. Helping humans is our duty to divine and that’s the only way to connect to the almighty in true sense. If we can help the destitute, we can bring peace to our life as it leads to greater happiness, less stress, better pain management and good health. Helping the people around connects us with the community and volunteering time and energy for the depressing helps us reduce loneliness and ISOLATION

Helping others fulfills the purpose of life:

Extending a helping hand to someone enhances an individual’s sense of fulfillment as it makes you feel rewarded and blissful. Only an enriched and empowered (not in terms of wealth) person can give, can support and can empower others; a poor or empty mind (even if having riches of the world) can never fill anyone’s heart as dark cannot remove the darkness; it’s always the light that illuminates and brightens everything. So be the light of someone’s life, be the strength of a weaker individual and be the hope of gloomy eyes and that will certainly fulfill the purpose of your life and give glory to your identity without any external validation.

“We have no choice about how we enter the world but we can decide upon a thousand about our exit and these choices create opportunities to fill the emptiness of life and suggest ways to make it blissful.”

So dear Readers always have an empowered faith in yourself that you can help others, you can bring positivity and happiness to others and you can become a perfect reason of a smile on a sad face. Imagine the gratification you receive which is beyond any reward and think of the contentment you cherish forever after seeing people overwhelmed while pouring their countless blessings for what you have done to them.