{"id":764,"date":"2019-08-01T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T03:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reaching-god.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T03:41:28","slug":"in-the-abode-of-simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reaching-god.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"In the Abode of Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a wet morning in\nKolkata when Raaji and I reached there, on our trail of reaching\nthe beloved ones of the Almighty God. The compassion and care of Mother\nTeresa had captured my heart long, long ago. I always feel sad when I\nremember Mother Teresa because I did not see her when she was alive\neven though I could have. However I take consolation of the fact\nthat 25 years ago, I did not have the spiritual gifts of today and my\npriorities were different. A couple of years after her demise, I visited the\nMother\u2019s House where she is entombed.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was two decades ago.\nThere has not been much changes since then \u2013 the filthy streets, rickshaws\ncarrying human beings being pulled by human beings, the flurry of aging\nAmbassador cars which are almost extinct in other states and the rusted\nold shabby trams which are overcrowded as before still remain a landmark of\nKolkata. It was drizzling and a Sister from Mother’s House was there at the\nstart of the narrow lane leading the visitors to the Mother\u2019s House where\nMother Teresa lived and was later entombed when she left for her heavenly\nabode. Another Sister at the reception showed us the way to the chapel where\nMother was entombed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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God gave me the opportunity to visit the final resting places where some of His beloved ones were entombed ever since I set out on\u00a0the trail of\u00a0His beloved ones who had done mighty things for Him while they were on earth. The faithful had built beautiful, magnificent tombs in their love and adoration for these saints.\u00a0Of these, the tomb of Mother stands out as the\u00a0simplest tomb of a saint I have ever seen \u2013 just an elevated box-like structure which is around 7ft long, 4ft wide and 4 ft high covered with simple Mosaic (which is fading) with a small epitaph on top. Though it is situated in the Chapel of the Mother\u2019s house adjacent to the noisy main road, an aura of peace, calmness and silence prevails the place. There was a continuous flow of people praying at the tomb, some touching it, some embracing it and some others prostrating\u00a0before it with tears. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

These were sign posts of the solace, comfort and compassion of her Master showered by her prayers on the helpless and hapless even after her time here on\u00a0earth. I had penned and tuned a hymn while I was meditating before her tomb 25 years ago. My love\u00a0for her had increased tremendously in the last two and half decades as I experienced her love more and more, though I was far, far away from her simplicity and compassion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The visit to the museum next door and the bedroom she used for decades were all beacons of her piety, humility and simplicity to her Lord and Savior Jesus. I am not a Catholic but I seek her prayers and\u00a0experience the power of her intercessions. She\u00a0offered herself as an embodiment of sacrifice and service showing\u00a0her Master\u2019s love to the destitute, desolate and dying not by fiery words but by works of care, compassion and consolation. I do not know of anyone else canonized in history other than Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu from Albania, who became Mother Teresa of Kolkata, who was bestowed the greatest honors of this world including the Nobel Prize, The Ramon Magsaysay award and the Bharat Ratna while alive. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As time rolls on more and\nmore are fascinated by her simple, humble and holy life on earth, and her\nprayers lead millions of helpless, hopeless and broken hearted every\nday to experience the peace, hope and the joy of her Savior and master\nJesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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