The greatest love in the world

It is common sense that in life, the love that a mother consecrates to her children is the greatest love that a being can vote for another being. And it is not restricted to relations in the plane in which we live, for it proceeds beyond the grave.

Where does this feeling come from?

Is maternal love the fruit of virtue, or is it just an instinctive feeling?

The question did not go unnoticed to Allan Kardec, as the reader can see from the question of The Spirits’ Book, in which, responding to the codifier of Spiritism, spiritual teachers said that maternal love is at the same time a virtue and an instinctive feeling, common to both men and animals.

As to the purpose with which the Creator sought, we find it in the following words:

"Nature gave the mother the love of her children in the interest of their conservation. In the animal, however, this love is limited to material needs; it ceases when care becomes unnecessary. In man, it persists for the whole of life and involves devotion and self-denial which are virtues. It survives even to death and accompanies the son beyond this life." (The Spirits’ Book, 890.) [we put it in bold.]

The theory contained in the above answer has been consistently proven by experience.

The reader has seen, of course, every time disturbances and rebellions occur in prisons and penitentiaries, mothers shouting, crying, despairing, worried about what might have happened to their children. Many serve long sentences there for perfectly proven crimes, but for their mothers they are only children, not criminals, whom society generally disregards and sometimes despises.

In the mediumistic sessions, the spiritual help given to disembodied, disturbed, rebellious or unhappy entities invariably counts on the participation of their mothers who, although disincarnated, continue to watch over their children and intercede whenever possible for their recovery.

Once, in the Spirit Group of Pray in Uberaba (MG), the conversation between those present revolved around a visit to a prison in the city of São Paulo that a group of friends had done together with Chico Xavier.

Chico, quite happy, said that he had received warm embraces of approximately four thousand inmates of that house of correction.

A young man who had participated in that work asked:

"Chico, did you see a lot of obsessing spirits in prison?"

- No! he replied. I did not see obsessors. I saw many benefactors, many mothers. There are no more obsessors, no! They have already done what they wanted!... (See "The Spirit Miner" Magazine - May / August 2000 - Nº 106.)

Given the information above, it is no wonder that Brazilian society - as it happens in other countries, such as the United States, Belgium and Australia - dedicate today, the second Sunday of May, to reverence our beloved mothers for all the affection, dedication, care and love that we have been dedicated since the moment we came into the world.

It is the most just of the homages we can render to a human being, to whom we associate ourselves by sending all of them, here and there, incarnate and disincarnated, our thanks and our tied embrace.