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even then his heart is always full of love for the activities of general weal. As the flaws of attachment and aversion recede, the aspirant practitioner's heart gets increasingly filled with kindness, compassion and love. As he becomes fully detached, he is blessed with the infinite accomplishments of infinite charity, infinite love, infinite prowess and infinite pleasure, etc. Humanity -
The sensory pleasure induces inertia or insensitivity; therefore, the indulgent ones generally suffer from the vice of insensitivity. He gets so involved in the pursuit of his own enjoyments that he becomes insensitive to others' troubles and travails and he can harm and inflict pain on others to any extent so that his own enjoyment can go on unhindered. For pursuing his own ends he does not hesitate in exploiting, abducting, killing, torturing, tormenting and intimidating others. He becomes heartless and his heart turns into stone. He may appear to be human but he is totally devoid of humanity and he spends his human life like an animal or a devil. He remains totally aloof to human feelings and does not taste the limitless pleasure of humaneness.
The practices of piety and those resulting in karmic stoppage and separation can grow on the soil of humanity only. Where there is no humanity, there is no life but insensitivity only; there is no religiosity but reproach. Mercy and kindness are the volitional forms of humaneness, and generosity and service are its practical forms. The life that is not endowed with kindness and service, is devoid of or rather against humanity. Service is an easy spiritual practice even for the householder that gradually reduces his flaws of attachment etc., and advances him towards renunciation and restraint and eventually towards liberation. Only that householder is not eligible to be called a wealthy person (Śresthi or Setha) who simply has a lot of material possessions but the one who is generous and serves the needy. Even the butchers and the prostitutes have a lot of riches but they are not referred to and honoured as Śreșthis or Seths or wealthy persons.
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