Why MOTHER is considered greatest on this EARTH?

God created this world and all creatures in this world. Indian tradition considers Earth as a Mother, since it is bearing us in its womb and due to gravitational force (Love) it provides the stability to all the objects that stay on the earth. Not only the Earth, wherever you have to compare anything which has got the capacity to hold a big weight or have capacity to protect from other things, we attribute motherhood to that object. Even our culture speaks about respecting the woman as she would be a mother on one day. Even children are taught in the prayer “Maatru Devo Bhava” and then “Pitru Devo Bhava” and at the end “Aacharya Devo Bhava“. So, when compared to a Father, Mother is given the first place to be worshiped.

Humans are evolved from Apes (Animals). Basically, Humans are the evolved intelligent animals on the planet Earth. But, mother is a mother in any case.

I remember few videos that I have watched on Discovery channel (a programme on wild life). Below are my findings on the current topic:

1. A baby giraffe was playing somewhere in the forest and all of a sudden, a tiger was approaching it. It ran towards the mother giraffe, though the mother was far from it.
2. Mother knows it cannot protect the child from the Tiger, but it was trying to cover the baby by risking its life.
3. When the tiger approached, it started to defend the baby and this happened for 5 minutes and finally the tiger left

A baby does not know about the capabilities of its mother whether she can protect it or not. But, it knows one thing that it’s mother only can protect her in this world. So, instead of running away from the tiger, it started running towards the mother. This is the nature of baby.

Mother giraffe, even though it is completely aware that it is incapable to fight with the tiger and knows that she cannot save her baby. However, it started defending the enemy with only the intention of saving her baby and did not think about her life. That is the nature of mother.

In another video, a mother just gave birth to a baby and within few minutes it started to hit the baby with her legs. The baby stood and fell down. This happened many times. But, mother was continuously hitting it whenever it falls down. I was wondering why the mother is mercilessly hitting the new born. But, finally the baby was able to stand and walk. Few days later, there was a fox approaching near the baby, then immediately mother hit the baby with her legs and the baby started running along with its mother. Then I understood, why she was so rude to her baby. Had it allowed baby not to walk as it was a new born, the baby could not have escaped from the danger of becoming a prey to the fox. Since, the mother knows about the jungle, she expected danger to come any moment and so tried to make her baby to be fit and alert as soon as it was born.

Conclusion from above two incidents:

1. Mothers do not mind to put their life in danger to protect their baby.

2. Mothers do not mind to be hard to make the child to learn the things fast so that it can become independent and fit to face any challenges in the world.

Of all the roles played by a woman in her life, motherhood is something different and incomparable to other phases of her life. When a girl is born, she is pampered and taken care by her parents. She was provided everything by them. She does not know anything other than her parents’ love and she knows only how to take love, not to give at that time. She will be more demanding rather than adjusting. She often dreams about her life and her world to be very beautiful. She will have her own world, where she wants to stay alone and even do not like it to be shared by siblings. From that mentality, she slowly learns about sharing the things with siblings, though not heart fully sometimes. She tries to excel with all her capabilities to win anything in her life. When she completes her schooling, in her teenage she dreams about being independent, having an individuality and privacy in her life. As she progresses in her academics, she always develop the feelings of being independent, self-centered and more stubborn at times.

In all these phases of her life, she has never bothered about any single person. All she wanted is parent’s love and affection and in fact their guidance and money to accomplish her goals. But, she never had to think about any other thing. Once, after marriage, starts the transition phase. Parents are replaced by husband and his family. This phase of transition is always painful to her and now she has to learn loving other people, not her own. It takes a while to get the transition phase to be complete. In all these phases, if she has to compromise in any matter, that is not from her heart, but has to oblige forcefully.

So, in this situation, she would expect something that she can say it’s her own and shower her true love again. She might have not accomplished something in her life and she wants someone of her own to accomplish what she could not. Again she wants to dream of something where again she can find herself and not anyone in that beautiful world. This beautiful dream is accomplished once she attains motherhood. When she becomes pregnant, her anxiety knows no bounds. She starts dreaming again about a new world, that she used to find herself when she was a child. She would dream about a wonderful thing whom she will consider more important to her than herself. And she forgets about her being active in her dreams anymore, starting to place that wonderful thing and get occupied with the thoughts of that small wonderful thing blessed by the God.

As the wonderful thing develops into a baby, her happiness knows no bounds. Though the baby kicks her from inside, she feels it as a joy rather than as a pain. To her surprise, without her knowledge she has changed her attitude and started showering love and affection that she was demanding all these days since she was born. The beauty of sacrifice starts in her life. Once, her mother had to run behind her asking if she took food, bath and all. Now, surprisingly she takes care of taking food in correct time and being tidy as she started giving importance to the baby than to her.

Here in this phase, we have observed the total transformation in her. She no more thinks about herself. Now her world is her baby. Now her world has changed and through the motherhood she has learnt the patience to bear the pain and replace the pain with joy, by changing her preferences. This is the transformation of a woman from being demanding to start sharing, from being pampered to start pampering, from being guided to start guiding, from being a follower to being followed by the baby, from complaining to enjoying. That is a true transformation of a woman and that is the beauty of the motherhood. This is the reason why mothers are great as they have changed from being selfish to selfless.

Now onward, her priorities and accomplishments gets changed. Her baby’s accomplishments becomes her accomplishments and she flies in the dreams of her baby rather than in hers. Her baby’s priorities becomes hers or more than hers. Only, mothers transform to this state and no man can have this in his life.

Every child should know this. Mothers had many dreams and aspirations in their lives. They too wanted to be successful in many things. It is not because they are incapable they could not achieve it but, they have sacrificed everything to make us win in our lives and to become successful right from crawling to walking to running. She never cared when her hands burnt while cooking, but always worried/cried when we got hurt while playing. She never cared when we have completed eating our cookies and we wanted the ones in her hands too. But when we grow up, we feel their pampering, their love and affection to be sentimental and emotional.

After these transformations, when children grow up and start their own lives ignoring the mother, still the mother wants their happiness. Some think their parents are fools, that they have brought up in expecting the children to take care of them in their old age. If they think so, they would have saved all their efforts in banks and investments so that the savings can take care of their old lives. It is the beauty of motherhood that dominates her mind thinking ill of her children and again she do not care, if we care for her or not, we love her or not, we will look after her or not. But, she always looks forward to make us happy and do not want to miss any opportunity to make us happy.

That is why, she is more than God. God gives you everything, if you pray him. But, it is the mother who gives everything, even you curse her. She is the person who has brought you into this world by bearing pain of bringing you into this world. It is the same person, who as a daughter was demanding, being pampered and carefully brought up by her parents, had her own dreams, her own aspirations and her own world. But, she has the courage to keep them all aside for a small thing – to make YOU happy.

Mothers are the first gurus in our lives who teach us everything by correcting when we do mistakes and being patient to teach us the same lesson again and again, though we fail to learn every time we try. No one can equate to a mother in this world.

I salute all the mothers in the world and every child should try to take care of it’s mother by treating her as their baby when they cannot walk, have the food by themselves, cannot do anything by themselves, taking a chance to reciprocate the same love, affection on them when we were once in the same position.