Mother Teresa was the epitome of love for all, especially the poorest of the poor of all races and religions, although her guiding light was the message of her Master Jesus Christ to whom she was spiritually betrothed. Mother served the poor and opened homes for them throughout the world but her love was not confined to the poor alone. She was the mother of the whole world and her love knew no bounds. It flowed in an unbroken stream, nay, a veritable flood, for all whom she came in contact with even if for a brief moment. When asked how she could manage to love so many, she said, "Whenever anybody comes to me, that person becomes the only person in the world for me...Our work is with individuals." And, herein lay the secret of her success, concentration, focus on the one at hand, although it almost pains me to rationalize the love of this supernal soul, a rare visitor to our planet Earth, one that graces this terrestrial realm to fulfil but a special mission of the Lord. This time over it was perhaps to spread the gospel of love that this missionary of the Spirit had adorned the Earth for a few years, a love that cares for all, even the unborn child in the womb of the mother.
Controversies galore have attempted to vitiate this beautiful love of Mother, attaching sectarian and political motivations to it, but they have never been able to dim the effulgence of this supernal maternal love that seeks only to protect and to preserve and never to destroy the seed of love, for what remains in life when the mother crushes the very life she has sprouted in her very self? I know I am stepping into a controversial zone where such world-governing issues as population boom and its concomitant evils are the subject of grave discussion but I do what I do with no malefic design save to highlight what Mother Teresa in her life stood for, albeit the fact that she was an avowed follower of the Catholic Church headquartered at the Vatican City. I personally am vouching neither for nor against this motion, being too insignificant and ignorant a person to pass my pronouncements on momentous issues as these. I follow what Swami Vivekananda had once said: "Society forges its own laws as it forces its way ahead...God is the sum total of all personalities...The will of the totality nothing can resist."
End of Part 1...to be continued.
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