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LEPERS
Oh! Compassion ! there are in this world lepers who have acquired leprecy from their very birth. Pus consiantly flows from out of the skin. Moreover, there are also some who have contracted contagious skin diseses called Leucoderma. Due to this disease of theirs, nobody talks with them, touches them, sits by them. Nor are they allowed to do all these things in their presence. They thus are forced to wander hither and thither for food being subjected to such a sorry plight. Oh! Compassion ! show me the favour of residing in my heart so that I may try, in that mood of mercy, to erect some "Hospitals for the Lepers" for their treatment and thus be an instrument in alleviating their sufferings and improving their bad lot. (5)
STUDENTS AND GIVING OF KNOWLEDGE
Oh ! Attitude of Compassion ! there are some children born in a noble family who, even though they are gifted with superb powers of intellect and have a very keen desire for learning, find themselves incapable to carry out their wishes on account of sheer dearth of means to meet with costly expenses of education. Their star of learning and luck sets before it rises and comes into full light. So is there only a little need to keep such rising stars in a perfectly luminous condition or to maintain their luminosity intact ? No, there is not a little need but much need. Oh! Compassion !
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