the speaking tree - Pledge Your Organs Today

BIMAL MOHANTY





There are several misconceptions with regard to organ donation. Firstly , do not harbour the feeling that organ donation is charity . We simply return a tool (faculty) that was a gift from the Divine for a purpose, for which we have no use any more. Entertaining the vanity of charity is ahamkara, or ego, of one kind that belittles one's sublime action of donation.Secondly , the misconception that a spiritual compatibility between the recipient and the donor is necessary , is not true.Essentially , it is the divinity inherent in all organs that is always conscious equally with everybody . The apparent inequality in consciousness is a superimposition caused by physical conditions only . There is no conclusive proof that an organ received from a criminal will make the recipient a criminal. That is the domain of individual actions and thoughts and sanskaras from past lives.
Thirdly , physical compatibility is important only to the extent that the donated organ must be compatible with matching tissues and so on to avoid a rejection. You need not worry about matching other physical parameters.
Fourthly , a donated organ must be able to perform the same function for the recipient. Simply sacrificing one's body or an organ is not organ donation. The examples of Dadhichi donating his rib bone to make a weapon or Ghatotkacha sacrificing his whole body by falling over the Kaurava army , or even a soldier sacrificing his body in fighting -noble actions as they may be -are strictly not organ donation.