No one is recognizing me, then why bother doing this at all!
Small acts of kindness don't matter!
Life is full of unconnected events!
Have you ever had these kind of thoughts? The thoughts which say that you are a tiny fragment in this vast world, that the things you do are forgotten within no time or the value of things you do is the equivalent to the praise you get?
I used to have these things in me, but no more and in order to eliminate these from you, I would tell you a story.
A story of three persons, lets name them as person1, person2 and person3.
Person1
Person1 born and grew up in Asia, he witnessed holocaust in his early age, He learnt from many great sages, went to every Ashram of Asia. Then he went to USA. He dont know english much, but he has things to tell to the world, He learnt English.
His entire life he would wake at around 4 am in the morning and would start writing for few hours. He did that for many years and at the end there were totally 140 books!
He was unable to see that all his books got printed in his life time. After he died, his daughter took the job of printing his books and i think there are still many books to be printed.
Person2:
Person 2 is person who searches for knowledge, He went for organization to organization, Gurus to Gurus and satisfied no where. Even one of his close relative is a well known person in India. But he was not satisfied. He was frustrated!
One fine day he wrote an email to person1's daughter, saying that there is no where true wisdom available.
Person1's daughter sent him a parcel. A parcel full of her father's books worth more than 1 lakh as a gift to him. She told him to read those books.
Person 2 after reading his books, for the first in his life felt that he found a real master. He decided to let as many people as possible know about the existence of person1.
Person3
He is a young fellow, searching for true wisdom. Like our person2 he tried all possible places and methods.
Someone told him, "If your search is true, you will find it!"
His search is true, but he is not able to get what he want. He wants the path towards infinity!
He was frustrated, depressed, there are times when he would sleep at night, wishing that he wont wake up the next day!
and one fine day he met Person2 and got introduced to Person1's books.
and Abracadabra!!
Person3 is now a changed person, he now atleast see the path clearly!
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Person1 is long dead, few decades back. He never thought about fame, nor money, nor recognition. He knew in future someone might be in need of true knowledge and he kept writing those books.
Imagine what would have happened to Person2 and 3 if the person1 didn't write those books.
Hats off to him, and for his vision.
People, many times we might think how we going to get fruits for our actions, and how soon we are going to get them!
But I would say, look centuries ahead and remember that even a small action done for the welfare of humanity lives forever. Even a small act of kindness lives forever!
You may not be alive to see it happen, you may be forgotten but the affect of your act goes on and on!
It goes beyond what you can see!!
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