The Tender Heart of the Saint

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The Tender Heart of the Saint

 

The heart of a mother is full of tenderness, but it is limited to her child

only; but the heart of the Saint is all inclusive, it knows the how and whence

of the origin of each one and the vicissitudes they have to go through.

 

The Saint is full of spiritual knowledge and pacific repose, there is nothing

wanting. He practices his sadhana in such a way as not to be discovered by

others; he has no use for the external marks of saintliness, he dresses in

keeping with the time and climate.

 

Being in touch with the atom, the first cause of the universe, he knows its

nature quite well. Blossoming forth is the very nature of the core of this atom,

hence changes and differentiation are bound to be there. Knowing this well, the

Saint is neither elated by pleasing events nor depressed by the opposite ones.

 

He has gauged the depth of the knowledge of the common man. He knows its nature

from beginning to end. He knows the how and the why of the mentality, also the

worthlessness of its achievements and failures. The needs of the body prompt the

creature to acquire means of sustenance, but the greed for these makes the

creature pursue them to the point of uselessness, and all of this without the

least idea of what awaits the life in future. What the creature deems essential

and strives to acquire, the Saint knows to be sheer trash.

 

The Saint is never a victim of passions. Life is a mixture of passions and

emotions; Atman, the origin of passions and emotions, is the very core of the

Saint's vision, the nature of which he is thoroughly acquainted. He knows its

activities and varieties of manifestation, as well as their consequences. The

life principle is the principle of feelings, passions, and emotions. Desires and

passions engendered in this principle are just emotive experiences, they have

nothing of substance in them; yet the poor creature thinks them to be of great

significance in his life, embraces the basically worthless desires, indulges in

sense enjoyment, and runs after them helplessly.

 

The mother, with sincerity but in ignorance, feeds the roots of misery, while

the Saint, with the same intensity, weeds them out. The Saint knows what the

welfare of the people lies in much better than does the mother of her child.

That is why the heart of the Saint is said to be kind.