Do we have the capacity to help others?
When two oneness-hearts talk
To each other,
We see the most beautiful dance
Of affection and sweetness.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Do we have the capacity to help others? Yes, we do. Do we have the caapcity to help others in words? Yes, we do. Do we have the capacity to help others in deeds? Yes, we do. Then how is it that we do not help others? We do not help others for various reasons.
The main reason that we do not help others is because we do not want to see others happy. This root cause branches into several subsidary causes. One of the subsidary causes is that we want the rest of the world to see how important we are. When others come to us for help, we feel that we are superior; we want to feel that we are indispensable. When we come to learn that those same persons have gone to others for help, we feel that we were right in not helping them. We feel that since the other parties did not feel that we were indispensable, since they also went to others, we did the right thing in not helping. In this way we justify our unwillingness to help.
There is human friendship and there is divine friendship. Human friendship says, "Give me; I need." Divine friendship says, "Take me, for I am all yours." The human in us has not only failed us time and time again, but it will always fail the ultimate test. The divine in us has always succeeded and will always succeed when it is allowed to come forward and act in and through us. This divine success is nothing short of world-harmony, world-satisfaction and universal satisfaction. ~ Sri Chinmoy
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