To feel for others and to do righteous acts of help to living creatures is indeed real kindness. If one can stop a heart from breaking, if one can ease the aching in one's life or cool one's pain, he has not lived in vain.
To some, helping others is a matter of faith. An elderly stranger went to a hospital in Peterbrough, New Hampshire and performed courtless tasks: sweeping, dusting building ramps, removing lint from the place where clothes are washed, etc. for four months. He never revealed his identity. Only after he had left the place the hospital staff realised that he was a former Vice-President of the Peninsular Railroad, a private railway company in the USA.
All along the route of the funeral procession of Lord Shaftesbury, a well-known social reformer of England, stood groups of people (whom he had helped in one way or the other) to pay homage to him. Thousands of people hailing from all classes of society held aloft banners with the words that he had helped them in their hour of suffering. Instances of this type are many.
In India saints and sages throughout the ages have preached and practiced the gospel of service to the sick and the suffering, the downtrodden. In every town in India there are a few sympathisers of the suffering who pay the tuition fees of poor students, give them books and stationery, pay sustenance allowances to needy widows and arrange their daughters' marriages, give blankets in winter and umbrellas in monsoons. Added to them are many persons who have given up their everything for the service of humanity and joined service organisations.
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Fibre wards off colon cancer. Fruits and vegetables are full of fibre. The fibre combines with harmful substances to remove them. It also quickens the movement of faecal matter (solid excrement) through the intestines.
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The self-help groups, supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, in Mewat India have helped many women to start their own business. (04:55) |
