Not hurting someone is not enough
What can I do to alleviate? Next step
From non-violence, comes another state that I can be compassionate
Compassion is at a higher level than non-violence
Feeling the pain of associates, even unknown people
you are going in a bus, or in a plane and somehow your co-passenger
you may not even be talking
and somehow it gets to you, the pain somehow just gets transferred
“Oh my God, this person is really, really suffering.” It is like
when you put your consciousness in the other person’s body
when you extend your awareness and touch the other person’s body,
you feel shaken from inside and ‘I do sympathize.
Now the next step is, “How to help them?”
Otherwise, God would not have given you this level of sensitivity.
Not everyone has such a sensitivity
Not everyone has such a sensitivity When you go out in the rain with a rainjacket
you do not feel the rain, you do not enjoy the rain.
Like that, when over a period of time,
your skin becomes thickened and heart walls become so thick that no
other person’s feelings can enter your heart
you are somehow imprisoning yourself and your Consciousness
And by not allowing the feelings and by not having that empathetic approach,
if you close your heart
somehow, you are destroying your level of Consciousness.
You are again imprisoning yourself, becoming heavier and heavier, and that is hell
And God descends,
in a pure heart
And the heart becomes purer
When you talk of Lord Jesus,
Lord Buddha, especially we have heard the recent stories
because they are recent Personalities
they keep on saying, “Until the last creature
not just human being﹘ last creature is freed, I will keep coming back.”
Coming back, in the sense, they will not come back in the way they were.
They will keep coming back in our forms, in Nusrat’s form,
in Jalaluddin’s form, in Lokesh’s form, in Daaji’s form
They manifest in different forms. Qualities will be exactly like them
So, do not hide them, do not mask them. Allow it to flourish If you are
sensitized because of someone’s pain, what is the next step? It is to help
I differ very strongly from Gandhian philosophy.
Mahatma Gandhi is praised for his principles of non-violence.
But not good enough. What do you do
when you do not hurt someone? Somebody is suffering
when you do not hurt that person more, it is also non- violence, right?
Not hurting someone is not enough
What can I do to alleviate? Next step
From non-violence, comes another state that I can be compassionate
Compassion is at a higher level than non-violence
In compassion, you see what can be done next for this person
The story does not end when you say, “I am not going to harm such and such a person.”
It is not the end of the story.
Next step is, “What next, how to help others?”
You felt empathy.
Okay. You felt the pain of others.
Compassion says, “Now let us do something above it.” So that is the next step.