Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
If we only practice compassion at the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
Hanuman, the devotee of Rama, said: When I identify myself with the body, O Lord, I am Thy creature, eternally separate from Thee. When I identify myself with the soul, I am a spark of that Divine Fire which Thou art. But when I identify myself with the Atman, I and Thou art one.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
