Life Divine

I was hurrying towards the garbage dump, close by, to dispose yesterday's waste, and she was standing outside her house. I had seen her when her tiny house was being built, close to the place where all the garbage of that area is dumped every day. I was morose because nothing bright or good was awaiting me , It was the same routine life of every day. But she was looking at me. I smiled at her on impulse and she returned back the smile warmly. After I had emptied the dustbin, I looked at her and casually asked if she had finished her work.She smiled broadly and told yes. I have seen her many times, cooking meals with her kitchen cum living room wide open, stirring something in a big pot, sometimes alone, and sometimes with her son loitering around. Sometimes she looks at me when I return from work.So, here was what is called human bonding, without even knowing the name of a person or his or her background. May be this is what we call love for fellow humans.

Most of us must have felt this in a crowded bus or train, this strange `affinity with the unknown people in the crowd. Sometimes we feel a kind of strange love and bonding with people around us without knowing them.Two days ago, I was sitting in a train, returning home. An elderly couple was sitting in front of me. The way they attended phone calls, and started worrying about some family problem and scarcity of water and other things, I felt as if I had always known them.

We people are a strange species, we humans. Only we are capable of loving our fellow human beings. Sometimes we are critical, sarcastic, selfish and expectant. But we are the same species , capable of immense love. We are the people who offer a helping hand to the suffering. It is just that sometimes we get busy with the external world too much and forget our divinity. We only need to go inward and find out our weaknesses, and strengthen ourselves to grow, to regain that innate divinity in all of us.