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Spirituality and Palliative Care

#birthdayofswamivivekananda 
#spirituality 
#palliativecare 
#endoflifecare 
#onenessofdivinity 
       On this very auspicious day mind goes beyond control. The preaching of Swami Vivekananda with special reference to religion and spirituality for the sake of mankind to treat a person as a whole serving humanity , motivating all to walk along the right path to seek happiness within self and make others happy with our compassionate heart. If I go deep down to the Ocean of Palliative Care, I can connect this with the philosophical thoughts of Swami Vivekananda.
   " Illness is a spiritual event.It grasps persons by the soul and by the body and disturbs them both. It raises troubling questions of a transcendental nature...... about meaning, value and relationship." 
       Daniel P Sulmasy, Academic Medicine.
    Spiritual relationship is the relationship of love , unconditional eternal love sometimes warm , sometimes cold in a waxing and waning manner. Spirituality in a broader concept is a belief sometimes beyond the self. It may center round the God , may strive to answer, " what's the meaning of life?" Sometimes enjoying nature is a spiritual experience. I can recall the days when we two (I and my wife) enjoyed the moonlit snow peaks of Kedarnath ignoring the severe cold outside the room standing on the rocky platform. The full moon kissing the Tso Moriri lake in Ladakh. Music also leads to the spiritual feeling in case of my wife who during cancer treatment used to listen to her favourite songs and oneday she wrote in her diary ," music is God" , one can meet the Almighty through music, this is the spirituality. Children find happiness and solace through the painting and art expressing   own feelings during the treatment which also heals the pain specially mental, not knowing the happiness is connected with the spirituality.
     Spirituality is unique to each one , each culture, each religion. Humanism , a philosophy stresses the importance of human values and dignity --- the main theme of Palliative Care and the preaching of Swami Vivekananda which today we take a vow to follow and be human being with compassionate heart to dedicate ourselves in the service of mankind in need to provide comfort to the patients. We the Palliative Care volunteers visit homes of the persons who face immobility to come to the hospital, check the status of the health, distribute medicine, chat with the patient in good communicative skills that he /she presents us a gift" Smile" . Without Home Care visit Palliative Care is incomplete.
   Oneness of divinity.

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