A friend had gone to some drought
striken villages, and saw people scattering grains to
the birds. He was shocked to see this.
They explained to hin, "You will not understand.
Dharmam was violated, and therefore the droughts happened. Now we are restoring
dharma by feeling the hungry, and you ask us why".
Thus i think my village people see us - as literate
ignorants, though they are too civilized to let us feel it, or to even think it
to themselves.
Only we are uncouth enough to go and tell them that
they are 'illiterate' and try to 'give them literacy'. If only we could receive
dharmam from them instead. Then would the world be saved.
The utter generosity of the poor humbles us. They give rice to every mendicant even when their rice is getting over. That is what they are defined by.
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