Man and God

those actions are truly meaningful that transform you as a person. Actions that do not transform you have, in reality, no value at all. They are like the stone that appears to get wet when water is poured on it but fails to experience the sheer thrill of the quenching of thirst experienced by a person when he drinks a glass of water! Offering One’s Self to God I f someone is injected with blood that is other than his blood group, his body does not accept it. At once, his body produces antibodies, and the injected blood is expelled. In the same way, a part of the body that is badly burnt is sometimes treated by skin grafting, by stitching on a bit of skin from another part of one’s own body. But if you try using someone else’s skin for this purpose instead of yours, in a few days’ time your body will recognize it as alien. Blood will stop circulating in that part of your body, and the grafted bit of skin will fall off. Remarking on this, the Scottish-Canadian pathologist William Boyd (d. 1979), author of a book on Pathology, explained: Self will not accept non-self. The small self – man – is an example of self-respect. From this, one can draw analogies with regard to the honour and respect of the Bigger Self, which is God. The fact is that God is more respectful and honourable than all human beings who seek self-respect, put together. He loves unity more than all