________________ Discourses on Shrimad Rajchandra by Gandhiji 175 demonstrate love towards it? On occasions, it is best for us to behave as if we were inanimate objects, that is, untouched and unmoved. In pure inanimateness and equanimous awareness there is hardly any difference. The world always appears as inanimate; rarely does the soul enlighten it. Such is the conduct of the great souls. This is how I had known Raichandbhai to carry himself in society. If he were alive today, he would have certainly blessed the present activities. There is religion reflected in this matter. Those whose souls are full of compassion cannot but participate in this. Such (an) approach will certainly bring better results in political and economic fields, but the best result would be that such people would rise above the ordinary ones and achieve liberation. If I do not get this kind of experience at the end of the year, I shall find it difficult to live in this world. He would often say that he can easily bear the pangs inflicted by spears struck from all sides, but cannot bear the pangs inflicted through falsehood, hypocrisy, injustice and cruelty in the name of religion. I had often seen him outraged by such injustices. For him, the whole world was like his own family. He felt a deep sense of sorrow whenever he saw someone suffering, in agony or dying as if he was seeing his own sister or brother suffering. Some may say that such people suffer because of their own sins, but why are they driven to commit such sins in the first place? When the path of righteousness is not easily accessible, one must cross difficult barriers to achieving that path, that is precisely what we call the dark times or kalikaal'. One does not come across piousness in the world at such times. What one comes across is sin everywhere. Sins are committed universally in the name of piousness. If we wish to practise compassion in such situations, our soul should