Blessed Mother

Mother Teresa the embodiment of love, the saint of the poor was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II. She is now the 'blessed mother'. The missionaries of charity, founded by the mother, whose sole purpose and aim in life is to help the poor and the needy is the one of the organizations that has given charity a practical meaning. There are people who just talk about love, who give lectures, who propound theories, but Mother Teresa has shown what love means. She has seen Jesus in every individual, be it a destitute child, be it Princess Diana, be it a leprosy patient. Without regard to caste, creed, sex, religion, her selflessness has today elevated her to such a position that no man can dream of. Though she died at the age of 87, she still lives, in the hearts of those thousands of inmates of the missionaries of charity. The world today is such that, even such a selfless person is charged with conversion, and television channels do not feel ashamed at all in going and blatantly clarifying the conversion factor with the sisters at the mission. Its high time the people in television media learnt some 'etiquettes' in communication.
I regret, for being an Indian not to have met the Mother when she was alive. Last night emotions overflowed, watching the inmates of the Missionaries of charity in Calcutta and the Indian Tricolour, being waved and fluttered by thousands at the Vatican. For once, I felt proud of being born in India, home to the Blessed Mother.