The Power Of Love

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THE POWER OF LOVE
I heard a beautiful story of a college professor in New
York who gave his business-economy students the assignment
of going into a slum and finding 10 children each to
interview. Then, the university students had to prepare
reports on each of the 10 children they had interviewed.
The final item of the assignment was for the students to
rate each child’s chance of success in the world.
So, the students all completed their assignments. With 20
students in the class, the professor ended up with 200
papers on 200 different children living in a slum area. Every
single report ended with the last question of “What
are this child’s chances of success in the world?” Each
had the same answer: “This child has no chance.”
Twenty or thirty years later, another professor at the
same college came upon these 200 old reports in the
economy department’s filing cabinets. He thought it would
be interesting to see whether all 200 children had really
turned out to be victims of their impoverished, crime-ridden
upbringings.
Amazingly, over 90% of the children who had “no chance”
had turned out to be successful doctors, lawyers or professionals.
The professor was astonished and went to each
one to ask what had helped him or her become a success. Every single respondent (now they were middle aged) said,
“Well, there was this one teacher I had who changed my
life and gave me the ability to succeed.”
The professor finally found this one teacher who had
changed the lives of all the children. When he found her,
she was past ninety and very frail. He asked her how she
had possibly taken these impoverished children who had
no chance of success in the world and turned more than
90% of them into successful professionals. The old woman
looked at the professor very simply, smiled and said, “I
just loved those children.”
The power of love is enough to give hope to the hopeless,
enough to turn failures into successes, enough to make
lives worth living.
The teacher had not done any special program, nor had
she taught the children any special skills. None of them
recalled a particular lesson, activity or project. Rather, the
simple fact that she loved them and believed in them was
enough to change their lives.
We all have this power to transform not only ourselves,
but others as well. Yet, do we use it? Do we take the divine
gift of love in our hearts and use it as much as possible, to
help as many as we can?
The message of Bhagwan Shri Krishna is, “Love, Love and
Love all.” From the moment He was 6 days old, He had
enemies. So many demons and asuras came to kill Him.
But what did He do? Did He fight them with anger? Did He hate them? Did He send them forever to Hell? No. He
granted them all liberation.
Wherever Bhagwan Krishna went — whether it was to palaces,
to the simple hut of Vidurji, to the gardens of
Vrindavan — He brought only His divine love. His divine
love changed not only the lives of all those who met Him
during His physical presence on Earth, but the ever-present
love He continues to shower upon us change all who open
their hearts to it.
Let us take to heart His divine message of
“Love All, Hate None. Heal All, Hurt None.”
God has given us a special ability to touch others with our
smiles, to change a life with a simple warm embrace, to
bring meaning to the lives of others by our love. We must
use this divine gift and never let it go in vain.
Flowers blossom under the warm rays of the sun, and the
flowers of our lives — our children, our families, and all
those around us — will blossom only under the warm rays
of our love.
If we learn how to love others, really, truly love them, not
for who we want them to be, but rather for who they are
— for the perfect souls that God has created — then we
have learned one of the greatest lessons of life.


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