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own body. His tendencies and thoughts are limited to personal pleasures. A person with such narrow thoughts loses his life in the pursuit of worthless and transient sensory pleasures. He cannot taste the incessant, eternal, infinite godly pleasures of others' happiness. He spends his life in sapless, dry, and trivial pleasures of the senses, and is deprived of eternal and infinite spiritual pleasure. He is born crying, he lives crying for more and more pleasures and dies crying, for the desire for bodily pleasures can never be fulfilled. This condition of the human beings is pitiable, sorrowful and heart-rending.
Sympathy is a gentlemanly quality. Where there is sympathy, sensitivity and affection, there is gentlemanliness. A gentle heart is as soft as butter. As butter melts at a little heat only the gentle heart also melts at the sight of even a little trouble in others. It starts overflowing with kindness and compassion. It cannot bear to see others in trouble. Sage Tulasidāsa has said, "Santa hṛdaya navanīta samānā". That is - the heart of a saint is like butter.
There are innumerable examples of sympathetic saints and gentlemen. Here are some -
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Śrī Kṛṣṇa was going for visiting Lord Neminātha. He was mounted on an elephant. On the way he saw a feeble old man who was shifting bricks, one at a time, from a large heap by the side of the main road to the inner part of his house with great difficulty. He was ill at ease in lifting even one brick at a time. Śrī Kṛṣṇa could not bear to see his trouble and his heart was moved by kindness for that old man. He lifted one brick and put it in the inner part of the old man's house. Soon the followers in his huge procession took the hint and before one could say anything all the bricks were inside. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Vasudeva was a great king. His servants and followers did all his work. He did not have to do anything with his own hands and it was an indicator of his power and honour and pride. But on seeing the old man in trouble Śrī Kṛṣṇa was so moved by kindness and compassion that he forgot his honour and pride. His sympathy overcame his
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| SR No. | 006917 |
| Book Title | Positive Non Violence |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Kanhaiyalal Lodha, Dalpatsingh Baya |
| Publisher | Prakrit Bharti Academy |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Total Pages | 344 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 5 MB |