As You Receive, So You Should Give

Ex-President of India Sri Abdul Kalam answering a question by the BBC:

Qn:

Please define Birthday.

Reply:

It's the only day in your life when your Mother smiled when you cried! 

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Comment:

The cry signalled the first sign of your life after nine months of nurturing in her womb from a speck to a full-grown baby and, after safe delivery, until you learned to sustain by yourself as an adult.

Don't let her cry in her old age when she needs your help. 

Inaction signals absence of nurturing by you.

It is Nature's Law (dharma) that Giving and Receiving are reciprocal acts. The Law is implanted as instinct in all Beings except humans who, with their intellect, are expected to act according to Dharma. 

The tree that grew from a seed gives back a seed to enable growth of another tree.
The bee that receives honey from the flower gives back
by helping the flowers make seeds.
Hence it is that Khalil Gibran advises us "to go to our fields and gardens" 
to learn this dharma of Giving and Receiving:

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Khalil Gibran's advice on giving and receiving:

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn
That it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. 

Be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.   -- Gibran in 'Prophet'

MKK
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