Love Knows No Bounds
love
is the greatest exchange currency
that you can have because it can buy
anything and everything money
and power can buy you only some things
love conquers all well i was born
in a family of eight siblings i lost my
father
when i was only six years old there was
a void
within me the longing for a father’s
love
that i try to seek and search in the
thinks of the world
i fell in love when i was only 15 years
stayed in love for 11 years and married
the man of my dreams
everything was fine with us till five
months
later i was diagnosed with an ovarian
cyst
i was operated for that and
after that came the complications at
surgery after surgery
five years passed and i lost the
function of my
phalapen tubes and the doctors concluded
that i could not have children
biologically
i was broken inside but i resorted to
what the world could offer me
i went in for artificial insemination
four times it all failed
i went in for ivf that too failed
i was broken inside but then i said i
need to bring some meaning into my life
being a singer being a musician
i started using my god-given talent
to put like-minded musicians and singers
together
and we formed a band we formed a gospel
ban we formed a choir
we started singing and raising funds and
i started visiting
the government hospitals in mangalore
and i saw
so many people suffering and in such a
bad condition
all i wanted to do was forget about
myself
and reach out to them and show them that
i am there for them
the sight of the people lying in the
paraplegic ward for years together
who haven’t walked there was this man i
remember who said
young man lying for more than five years
there on the bed and he said he told me
i feel
very bad when i see people walking about
and busy
when i cannot move i don’t know if i
will ever walk again
so i started doing some small little
things out of love
for these people and uh i went in for a
pregnancy test a few
uh weeks months later
and then i was i got a positive report i
ran to my doctor showed him the report
he said you impossible how can you
conceive
don’t tell anybody you come back in two
months and i will scan and see
and yes if there is a baby then you can
tell two months later when i went to the
doctor and he scanned me
he literally fell off the chair he said
there is a baby what did you do
and that was the time for me to tell him
what is impossible for man
is possible for god i was blessed
with a beautiful baby girl who is 26
years now
and she’s the reason for me to go all
out
to show that love can conquer
everything even our brokenness and
everything
so as i was going about doing this thing
i saw so much of pain and suffering on
the streets i found people on
in the dustbins i found people abandoned
maggot infested wounds
so much of pain and suffering and there
was no place for them
so i registered under an ngo as an ngo
took a license from the district
administration for psychiatric
nursing because everyone on the street
has psychiatric problems
started picking up these people one by
one bringing them into the home
giving them a lot of love giving them
food grooming them and
i was thinking of this that
to have a place to go
is a blessing to have someone to love
you
is a family and there are so many
without either or both and i was
determined to make that difference
to be there for them for these destitute
the least the last and the lost of our
society
so picking one by one we happen
to pick up over 600 people from the
street and rehabilitate them
with just a little love and care i saw
great transformation in their lives
people who were with maggot infested
wounds
matted hair they don’t even know who
they are
and from where they have come gradually
recall who they are and there’s so much
of transformation
so with this we were able
to to reach back over 300 plus
destitute to their homes all over india
and even nepal
this lady is from nepal and
she was found naked on our roads and
brought in by the police
six months later she was badly injured
we found her family in nepal
and they were reunited we have many many
cases
this is a woman who dressed up like a
man
and lost her mind and just walked out of
tamil nadu andhra pradesh
and she reached mangalo and found by the
police and once again brought
12 years later we were able to locate
her family
and reach her back just yesterday
we were able to reunite a mother who
lost her mind and walked out of her home
in tamil nadu
14 years ago when her three tiny
children
were left abandoned there the father
died
within a year and the children were
orphaned
yesterday we were able to find the
family
and reunite them and send them back to
tamil nadu
so as this work was going on i saw so
much of hunger on the streets
when we eat good food how can our
brothers and sisters
who live rough on the road eat garbage
eat chicken waste from the chicken
stalls
i’ve seen people eating paper to satisfy
their hunger
i made up my mind i need to give them a
good meal
so every day we started cooking one good
nutritious hot meal
and started taking it to the streets
what we began 20 years ago feeding 20
people
today we feed almost 150 to 200 every
day on the streets
and i experience so much of love from
them i don’t know who they are
but sometimes they see me on the streets
and they come and greet me
and i feel so blessed
so this work too was going on we opened
a home for the children
started taking care of children
educating them and grooming them
the all-round development was taken care
by us
and i was in for a root shock suddenly
as i was doing this work
when i was diagnosed with third stage
breast cancer but i battled cancer
boldly because i was not afraid of death
i faced the sickness went through a ten
and a half hour surgery that was
followed by
six rounds a strong chemo called tac
and then five weeks of radiation
and everything went on smoothly till i
had to get
the second blow i was as i was coming to
the end of the radiation
i was diagnosed with acute hepatitis b
i started throwing out blood my liver
enzyme shot up to 5100
and the doctor said i was gone on april
4th
2010 because my liver was completely
dead
but all these people
started praying for me and started
wanting me back
i did not know what happened to me
because i was in a coma
when everybody had given up on me the
love
of these people brought me back to
literally brought me back to life
eight days in a coma i got up on the
eighth day and i asked the doc
when i got up i had tubes in my nose
stent in my
neck stent in my groin and i asked the
doctor who put me or what happened to me
and then he said you went the other side
and came
well i did not think about my family at
that time
all i could think was about my extended
family
i said because we had two homes we had
140 destitute under our care
and if anything happened to me probably
these people had to go back to the
streets
so i was able to get a plot of land
in the city donated for my oh my for
this purpose
and today we have a beautiful
one of its kind state of the art
home for these destitute they can call
they call it
their own we have a 200 bed psychiatric
nursing home
for these destitute well i see so much
of
uh transformation i experience
that’s why i said the exchange of love i
experienced so much of love from these
destitute
i just want to touch on one thing people
misunderstand
these psychiatric people on the streets
i have seen
people being stoned there was an elderly
man who was a professor who lost his
mind
who was dressed up in an idris and
people were stoning him not knowing what
he was doing
we picked him up rehabilitated him
united him back with the family
i want to tell you that anti-social
elements
do not spare even handicapped women on
the streets
there was this woman who couldn’t even
walk
but she was raped and she literally died
giving birth to her son she’s no more
now
likewise there was a young another case
of a young man
who was robbed on the trains put on
another train he landed up
he was from a u.p he landed up in
mangalo and since they
lose their mind they cannot
reply to your questions then people
misunderstand that he’s a thief
and then they beat him up and then we
rescued him
and put him in hospital he recovered and
we were able
to unite the father and the son
so if we give love
we will get love back in return nobody
is useless
nobody is worthless so each one of us
can make that difference in the lives of
others
each one reach out to one and
you and i can make this world a better
place
thank you