Hello my dear friends.
Welcome to Mohanji Speaks.
Today we are going to talk about the goodness factor.
What is goodness factor?
Goodness factor is our ability to be kind and compassionate and prioritising it at all times.
So how is it important for us?
We shall see.
One gentleman,
A photographer,
He saw a small child totally,
Totally drained and lean and weak from dehydration and malnutrition crawling to a centre where they were distributing food in Sudan.
And very next to this child,
A vulture was sitting waiting for the child to die to eat its body.
This photographer took a picture.
This picture is very famous so it is available on internet.
He took the picture and he went away from there.
What happened to the child?
Nobody knows.
And this picture won great prizes,
Great awards as a very sensitive picture.
A child about to die and a vulture waiting for its death.
A very very sad picture.
In one of the programmes where this picture was displayed,
One reporter asked this photographer,
What did he do about this child?
Did you take the child to the shelter or did you just leave her there?
He said,
I didn't have time,
I had a bus to catch so I rushed right after the picture.
I don't know what happened to the child.
So the reporter said,
There is not just one vulture waiting for the death of the child.
In fact there are two and one is behind the camera who took the picture but did not help the child.
This literally shook him.
It hit his conscience.
It hit his conscience so bad that he committed suicide later on.
The photographer committed suicide.
Today you can see many many vultures like this.
All they need is a good picture but they don't stop to help the victims.
We can see that in the media.
You can see so many cameras on very eerie images.
People suffering,
Animals suffering,
Birds suffering,
Pictures of suffering.
There are people behind these cameras.
But do they turn around and help them?
We don't know.
In many circumstances probably help is not possible because of various regulations such as government regulations or authorities not permitting any assistance or things of that kind.
That is okay,
Understandable.
We can't do anything.
But there are many places where they can be helped.
This ability to give a helping hand makes us a good human being.
You do take the picture and show it to the world that these kind of things happen in the world.
That's fine.
But after that you need to stop to help the helpless.
That's where the humanity comes.
That's where a person becomes a good human being.
That's where the goodness factor is displayed.
So what we need to think today is are we a vulture or are we an angel?
We can all become angels.
We can definitely help the helpless.
If we make that our priority,
For that you should get out of your houses or get out of your comfort zones and do the impossible.
That will literally take your self-esteem to a totally different level.
You will have great self-esteem.
You will have great inner richness.
You will have great gratitude to the universe for giving you the ability to be helpful.
You will become great human beings.
You will set trends.
You will become a game changer.
So this is my message today.
This is my food for thought today.
Are you an angel or are you a vulture?
Think it over.
Look at your own past.
Think about the various life situations you have faced and how you responded.
The world is a dangerous place.
Not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.
This is a quote from Albert Einstein.
This says it all.
We all have the potential to be angels.
We are angels.
Sometimes mind does not allow us to experience it.
Then we become vultures.
So wish you a state of being an angel always.
Lots of love.
This is Mohanji for you.
