#jay varma

Sita, one of the Panchkanya (five women) painted by Raja Ravi Varma, will come alive at the Orientation Hall of Bihar Museum, on April 29, to commemorate the 175th birth anniversary of Raja Ravi Varma. Organised by Bengaluru-based Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation (RRVHF), the premiere of  Sita, a 45-minute monodrama by Anjana Manish Chandak is the fourth in the series. Gitanjali Maini, CEO,…

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 511: Fighting Monsters Part 6

Katherine had taken the two new refugees to her friend Jay Varma’s laboratory, as Jay is an expert on cloned technology, and the most qualified on board the Kyuunansen to help with Aamiina’s injuries. (Unbound Boxes Limping Gods is back after a break. Thank you to everyone for your support. The writer gives life to a story, the reader keeps it alive.) Katherine’s back story, set onboard the…

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 508: Fighting Monsters Part 5

Katherine had analysed the blood of the newest refugees and found both women to have no sign of the Amanojuko virus. Katherine’s back story, set on board the Kyuunansen (3992)

TINY DROPS OF LOVE

Here’s another quotation to sit with:

We cannot do great things in this world; we can only do small things with great love.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, one has to be extraordinary.   What we need is to love without getting tired.  

How does a lamp burn? Through the continuous input of small drops of oil.

What are these drops of oil in our lamps? They are the small things of daily life:   

faithfulness,     punctuality,     small words of kindness,     a thought for others,     our way of being silent,     of looking, of speaking,     and of acting.  

These are the true drops of love.   

Each of us can bring Light into the world through our tiny but continuous drops of love. There is no other way for the darkness to be defeated. 

What can you add to the list of “small drops of oil” and “small things of daily life” ?

Quotation: Found in Gerard Thomas Straub, Thoughts of a Blind Beggar: Reflections from a Journey to God (Orbis Books, 2007) page 136

WE BELONG TO EACH OTHER

Today the Missionaries of Charity and their friends celebrate the feast day of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. September 5th is the anniversary of her death, and at present is acknowledged as her feast day.

In the following few short paragraphs Mother Teresa reflects on working toward peace:

The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace. Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don’t really want to smile at; do it for peace. Let us radiate the peace of God and so light His light and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power. Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other - that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?