Just a few days back the world celebrated the centenary of Mother Teresa, a woman who single handedly redefined the realms of social and selfless service.Add Image

It takes great courage to leave all the comforts, luxuries and safeties of your home and come to a place that symbolizes the word ‘poverty’ in every way. It takes even greater courage and a heart of gold to come there with the intention of helping the people in a completely selfless manner without any help or assistance. However it takes the greatest amount of courage in order to stick to your goal in the face of untold criticism, obstacles and overcome all of them only with the tools of work & prayer.

Mother Teresa achieved all three of the above to the letter.

For the world she is a saint, for people in Kolkata she is God. She embraced a place slipping away into the darkness of poverty, disease and misery as her own. The people she cared about irrespective of their caste, creed and religion. The best part is she did not ask for anything in return. She once asked the chairman of a famous airline company to save the leftover food given in planes so that she could use it to feed her children in Kolkata. Today her ‘Missionary of Charity’ has spread far and wide and does not have to ask twice for support.

Mother Teresa believed in God but service always came first. Never has there been in any stage where the Mother has asked someone to get converted to Christianity. Her only aim was to help to lessen pain…. Everything else could wait. Her only possession included a bucket and two sarees.

Such selfless service can never be emulated, all one can do is to pay homage and respect to one of the most divine souls, to have walked Planet Earth.