My Uncle – A Divine Personality
Mr. C.C. Reddy VISHU Consultants, Hyderabad
No one knows how God looks like. We only can read about the characteristics of God from the Bible and other religious books. I don’t think man ever can become a God, but when we see some people we develop such devotion, respect, trust and love for them. We can not but whole heartedly adore such personalities. We love to spend our time with them, listen to their valuable words, and cherish their wisdom. Such a rare personality was my uncle Chinna Konda Reddy. I believe that he was loved by every one. Rarely did I have opportunities to spend time with him. With in those few short visits, I felt that I had seen a great person and few minutes that I had spent with him remain indelible in my life. He was not a very rich man, or a great scholar, or an expert in any art. The greatness of him lies in his bundle of human values that he beloved in and practiced. He became an exceptional personality with unique life values. His words were naïve yet contained jewels of life realities in his conversations. Even though he had troubles like raising tidal waves in his heart, his words were so gentle like a still brook. He was a businessman. Usually any business men aim to earn more and more money. Such people don’t mind saying lies deceiving people and following add means and so on. But Chinna Konda Reddy v never had a malicious mark in his affairs of business. His earnings never were in any wrong ways, but just hard-earned money. We do not know how much he earned but he never been a poor man as well. He was so generous that who ever approached him in any need were being satisfied. He did not enter into the books of history nor followed by multitudes, but all those values we find in great people of the history, we find in the life of Chinna Konda Reddy. If not in the pages of historical books, he definitely made his presence permanent in all our hearts. He was a great man who loved all people around him. I am very much privileged indeed to get this opportunity to write about him even though there are many people better than me, who lived closely around him for longer times. Though there are valuable written words in great books like the Bible, unless we follow them in our lives they have no meaning. People like Chinna Konda Reddy lived the meaning of such great words. Their ideals become ultimate goals and directions for our lives too. There may be different controversies about Jesus, whether he was God or Man or God incarnated as man. But for my uncle, Jesus was real and great inspiration. He passed on such blessings of God and virtues of life to the rest of the family.
C.C.Reddy