Let Compassion And Love Guide Your Actions
prince Siddhartha renounced the world and went on a search for Truth when moved by the abunnce of sorrow and suffering all agod him. He wanted to find an answer to ferings of the world. He became the dasa and shared his insights with one who were willing to listen to him. the contemporary world, there are one who respond to suffering maybe ferently but with the intention of aking a positive difference to those o suffer. In Gujarat, a diamond businessman, rhaps, moved by reports of suffering, just that. His annual business turn ran into several thousand crores of pees. His 20-something son was well-coated. He gave him a small sum and ked him to go to Kerala, live among e collar workers and earn his livelihood on hisown The businessman, born in poverty in a Gujarat village, had no opportunity for a good education, having studied only up to Class V. By dint of hard work he built up his business empire dealing in diamonds. He wanted his son to gain the wisdom that one can't gain merely from formal education. Suffering increases our sensitivity towards others who are similarly afflicted or subject to injustices of all kinds. This is one way we become compassionate. True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. Human compassion binds us all. In a society where love and compassion become the guiding principles, suffering ought to cease. Indeed the diamond businessman, who came up in life the hard way, had acquired a wisdom that mere bookish education can't give. He had learnt to share. He had distributed among his employees, 400 flats and 1,200 cars worth Rs 51 crore as Deepavali gifts. "Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must bepurposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that extends itself becomes joyful. This is the great secret of inner life. We do ourselves the most good by doing something for others," wrote Horace Mann, the American education reformer. If we do not do so, we are in the danger of judgment. "For i was hungry and you gave nothing to eat, iwas thirsty and you gave tree menothingto drink. I wasa stranger and you did not invite me in, i needed clothes and you did not clothe me,i was sick and in prison and you did not look after me."(Matthew 25:42.) To that lament Jesus added: "In that you have not done it unto the least of thesemy brethren, you have not done it to me." Glaring inequalities represent thefailings of a community. It is well to recall here Aristotle's statement that poverty is the parent of revolution andcrime. Peace will prevail in any societonly when injustices are removed. A saint who lived in the fourth century wrote: "The bread you store up belong to the hungry; the cloak that lies inyochest belongs to the naked; the gold yohave hidden in the ground belongs tothe poor." It is in the same spirit, that AlbertEinstein had declared that the only liverwort living is a life lived for others
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Let Compassion And Love Guide Your Actions
prince Siddhartha renounced the world and went on a search for Truth when moved by the abunnce of sorrow and suffering all agod him. He wanted to find an answer to ferings of the world. He became the dasa and shared his insights with one who were willing to listen to him. the contemporary world, there are one who respond to suffering maybe ferently but with the intention of aking a positive difference to those o suffer. In Gujarat, a diamond businessman, rhaps, moved by reports of suffering, just that. His annual business turn ran into several thousand crores of pees. His 20-something son was well-coated. He gave him a small sum and ked him to go to Kerala, live among e collar workers and earn his livelihood on hisown The businessman, born in poverty in a Gujarat village, had no opportunity for a good education, having studied only up to Class V. By dint of hard work he built up his business empire dealing in diamonds. He wanted his son to gain the wisdom that one can't gain merely from formal education. Suffering increases our sensitivity towards others who are similarly afflicted or subject to injustices of all kinds. This is one way we become compassionate. True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. Human compassion binds us all. In a society where love and compassion become the guiding principles, suffering ought to cease. Indeed the diamond businessman, who came up in life the hard way, had acquired a wisdom that mere bookish education can't give. He had learnt to share. He had distributed among his employees, 400 flats and 1,200 cars worth Rs 51 crore as Deepavali gifts. "Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must bepurposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that extends itself becomes joyful. This is the great secret of inner life. We do ourselves the most good by doing something for others," wrote Horace Mann, the American education reformer. If we do not do so, we are in the danger of judgment. "For i was hungry and you gave nothing to eat, iwas thirsty and you gave tree menothingto drink. I wasa stranger and you did not invite me in, i needed clothes and you did not clothe me,i was sick and in prison and you did not look after me."(Matthew 25:42.) To that lament Jesus added: "In that you have not done it unto the least of thesemy brethren, you have not done it to me." Glaring inequalities represent thefailings of a community. It is well to recall here Aristotle's statement that poverty is the parent of revolution andcrime. Peace will prevail in any societonly when injustices are removed. A saint who lived in the fourth century wrote: "The bread you store up belong to the hungry; the cloak that lies inyochest belongs to the naked; the gold yohave hidden in the ground belongs tothe poor." It is in the same spirit, that AlbertEinstein had declared that the only liverwort living is a life lived for others
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The views expressed in the Article above are MPK Kutty kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : MPK Kutty Speaking Tree,Times of India