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Practice of Compassion in Modern Life
They all feel compassionate towards each other, and take care especially of their young ones and group fellows.
They all oblige humans in their best capabilities.
Humans with their improved capabilities of speech, language and higher complexity of brain, managing well-pronounced reasoning and organized skills, stand most superior amongst the Hominids and rule the world.
Our life style seems to be advanced in this modern age, but looking at the ancient monuments and traces of the ancient culture, found all over the globe, besides the deep philosophical vision given by the ancient Eastern thinkers, one is compelled to realize that we stand much behind the achievement of those human communities of past, which are lost perhaps due to self-neglect.
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Modern achievements have explored the complexity of nature in part, to manage a better and a bit apparently secured conditions of human survival, with amenities, for which one may boast, but the human values are badly ignored and mistery of Mind, Soul thoughts, death and of choosing one's own parents as the root cause of unhappiness, are left unexplored and unmanaged.
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Lost in ones own selfish ego, compassion may be mistaken as rendering help to humans alone, neglecting the other creatures of Nature, but in its real meaning Karuṇā (Compassion) cannot be acquired in Mind without the feelings, for the type and severity of pain, by one own self.
Depending upon that feeling, it comes into practice as expression and
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Compassionate individuals can only be called real humans, for, they only can understand the sufferings of Hunger/starvation and death. Death comes only once in life and cannot be expressed or experienced while living. To tell the severity of its sufferings, one is not available after death. What is evident then, is the fear and the-pain through physical hurt and injury, circumstantially inflicted on self, that makes one realize it, in fractions.
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