Remember that famous Sanskrit shloka? It compares and contrasts all sorts of problems of "dhanam", meaning money/ wealth, of course, and arrives at the conclusion that "vidya", knowledge, is the best asset of all.
As it is the best resource, in a way, it is the best mode/means of donating as well. True, even in the era of online and/or distance mode of learning, a genuine teacher (at any academic level) teaching sincerely is the best donor ever.
There is, however, yet another donor who literally gives a new lease of life. Yes, you guessed it right. He/she is the person who donates blood and/or organ(s). It is indeed the best, the noblest of all donations, though there are mercenaries who concoct an ugly market out of it, too.
That is inevitable in a way. Smart cookies can create ugly and cheap 'bazzars' of every noble idea, be it knowledge, yoga, spirituality, and blood and organs. There would be any number of roadside, fly by night shops selling such high concepts as cheap merchandise. That meanness in the human(e) condition can be a fault of individuals and/or the system.
Such simulations, the videos thereof, the thumbnails of such videos cannot, however, demean the original concept. Blood and/or organ donation, for instance, is wonderful in many ways. It saves lives. It shows the greatness of human intelligence which built such wonderful medical technologies to deal with debilitating diseases and/or certain death.
It proves, moreover, that beneath the skin, both literally and figuratively, all the human beings are the same. No credentials of class, creed, gender can differentiate between two human beings. Given this lesson in equality, humility, and humanity, such donation is indeed the best donation!
Pratima@ "Sujata", the yesteryear film released in 1959, establishes such a concept of equality most sensitively. 'Old is gold' indeed, be it a shloka or a film!
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