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that all generosity goes out of it and his humanity and humaneness vanish. From this standpoint enjoyment of worldly pleasures is the means of a person's downfall. However, one who knows about pain and misery, one who has suffered in life always shares his means of enjoyment with the deprived ones and always tries to use them for mitigating their pain and misery. The spring of love flows eternal in his heart. Mildness is a godly quality, which dwells in a gentle heart only.
Dharma does not dwell in the heart that is not as soft as butter and such person cannot be called as religious. Only that person can be religious who cannot bear to see others in pain. One's duty lies in using the means and powers at one's disposal in trying to mitigate the pains and miseries of others. Whatever means of body, wealth, intellect, strength, abilities, etc., that we have with us here, cannot follow us in our afterlife after our death. Therefore, if a person would not use them in helping others but would either use them for one's own enjoyment or he would simply waste these resources at his command., this waste would eventually cause him misery. Thus, there is only one proper use of means at our command and that is in employing them in serving others. Therefore, we must employ our resources in mitigating the pain and misery of others wherever we see them. This will result in their happiness and the feeling of inherent kindness will purify our volitions, we would overcome our desire for mundane pleasures and out hearts would become pure.
When the heart is filled with the feelings for others' pain, the desire for mundane pleasures keeps out. The way to feel for others is to put ourselves in their place and to try to imagine as to how would we feel, if placed in their circumstances? As soon as we place ourselves in the position of the miserable, a picture of his misery would carve itself in our hearts and out hearts would move with their misery, our desires would melt away. However, one who feels others' pain due to attachment and delusion becomes weak and he becomes distressed and disheartened and cannot do much to mitigate the misery. On the other hand one who bears the others' pain and misery with a feeling of
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