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The Agam Vani in the Teachings of Shrimad Rajchandra
One can hardly find a person in the world
who has not shed tears. Tears are shed when one is in pain or on the death of a beloved one or when one suffers a shock. But these are tears of ordinary mortals, not of a saint.
A saint weeps when he sees others suffer or are in a state of anguish. His eyes become moist when the world is in throes of pain. Bhagwan Buddha wept seeing an old man and a dead body. Bhagwan Mahavira's eyes welled with tears when he saw Sangamdev, bound by karma and committing sins. When did Shrimad Rajchandra shed tears? It happened when he was aged seven and his mother asked him to mince vegetables. He wondered as to how many invisible organism he would be harming thereby.
We have known people showing compassion to visible souls but here was Shrimad Rajchandra
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