How can we understand the real meaning of compassion and who can have it? What is the difference between mercy and compassion? How is compassion connected to Spirituality?
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00:00I like to do service work, you know, community service work, so what is your opinion about
00:25social service? And, you know, I think that when you do this kind of work, you go to people
00:33with compassion, and that compassion sometimes can open the door to spirituality. You know,
00:41it's a way of reaching people that may not understand spirituality, but you go to somebody
00:47with love, and that you want to help them maybe reach that goal. So what do you think
00:54about that, and is there a way to be... Compassion is very high stage. This is not
01:01compassion, this is just mercy. Mercy and compassion, lot of weakness between the two
01:06things. Ordinary persons are having mercy, compassion is a little... like Mahavira or
01:13Buddha, they had compassion, or Dada. When there is no ego, then only you can have compassion.
01:24When you do social work or something like what you do, see, ego is there. In subtle
01:33level also the ego is there. Suppose someone insults you regarding your social work, will
01:46you feel bad or not? Give bad words to you, whatever you have done is wrong, just you
01:57do for... you are corrupted and this and that. Suppose someone says to you for your social
02:03work, so what will you feel? Will you feel bad, you will hurt it? That means there is
02:12ego. Praise is ego, you have done very good job, you are serving mankind, you are having
02:19lot of compassion, so then you will be happy inside, right? That is pride. So all these
02:28things, anger, love, greed, pride, they are there. Even though you are doing very good
02:35work, this will give you punya karma, good deed, you are doing good deed, charging good
02:42deed, and you will have happiness in your next life. It's good for your materialistic
02:51life, but if you want salvation, moksha, then there is no role of all these things. There
03:03is no worshiping, and you go on the path of salvation. Then on that path only you can
03:14achieve compassion. It's without any goal, it's compassion for each and everyone in the
03:22universe. That is throughout, and that remains for everybody. No ego, then and then only
03:37you can have the real compassion. No expectation, you don't see any fault of anybody, no anger,
03:46love, greed, pride, then and then the compassion in real sense you can achieve. Otherwise whatever
03:53you are doing is very good job, good service. In relative world it's good, top thing, but
04:03in reality, compassion is not there. You can't achieve salvation only by this, then there
04:15you have to be egoless, and you have to be free from anger, lust, greed, and pride with
04:24self-realization.