sufferings qna

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Question: So one should try to ameliorate suffering, even if one

knows that ultimately it is non-existent?

 

Maharshi: There never was and never will be a time when all are

equally happy or rich or wise or healthy. In fact none of these terms

has any meaning except in so far as the opposite to it exists. But

that does not mean that when you come across anyone who is less happy

or more miserable than yourself, you are not to be moved to

compassion or to seek to relieve him as best you can. On the

contrary, you must love all and help all, since only in that way can

you help yourself.

 

When you seek to reduce the suffering of any fellow man or fellow

creature, whether your efforts succeed or not, you are yourself

evolving spiritually especially if such service is rendered

disinterestedly, not with the egotistic feeling `I am doing this',

but in the spirit `God is making me the channel of this service; he

is the doer and I am the instrument.'

 

If one knows the truth that all that one gives to others is giving

only to oneself, who indeed will not be a virtuous person and perform

the kind act of giving to others? Since everyone is one's own Self,

whoever does whatever to whomever is doing it only to himself.

 

-- Ramana Maharshi

 

Hari Aum !!!