The next day of Deepavali , in india, in some territory, ppl are celebrating New Year today.
Crores of 'Deep' - diyas were lit in Indian Homes and so in the hearts with love, compassion with the mangal-prayers fr self, family, neighbourhood, country and everyone. Today got to read a blog 'temple of mind' and.....
Recently i got opportunity to meet a saint n we were discussing on a topic 'Why vidhyasagar was unhappy during His last days ' ?? here it follows....
We all, specially the bengalis know 'Vidyasagar' well. We start learning bengali alphabets with ‘Varnaparichay’ which was Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar’s pioneer work to introduce the modern Bengali alphabet. Prior telling the story i would like to mention few lines about Him, because without knowing that we cannot understand his pain well.
He was an educator-philosopher and moreover a ' compassionate reformist '. Vidyasagar, whose name means 'ocean of knowledge' felt very sorry and compassionate whenever he saw poor and weak people were in distress. Though he was very outspoken and blunt in his mannerisms, he was known to be kind man . For his immense generosity, charity and philanthropy He was also known as 'Dayar Sagor' or 'Karunar Sagor" i.e. 'ocean of kindness'.He always reflected and responded to distress calls of the poor, sufferings of the sick and injustice to humanity.
Such a person who was unhappy !! Swamiji's story goes on...
" During his last days , he was very sad. He was not even willing to meet ppl. He did everything he could do fr ppl but what he got in return !! He was such sad that when a person came to see him during his last days , he said - " yu too r here to add me some more pain !! Probably i hav done something good fr yu someday " Ppl hav given so much pain to him in return of his goodness that when a person comes to see him he is guessing he too has come to give him some additional pain !! Can we imagine his condition ?? Can we really feel fr his that state of mind ?? "
And here we go... conciousness means to feel other's pain as one's own. And then the true compassion dawns in the heart. Unless that state comes, Compassion is just a concept in mind or immitation of other's action who are already leballed as 'compassionate' fr their actions . ('Ppl are donating so i hav also to take part in giving. Ppl are speaking soft , i hav also to be that way" This thing happens in actual. ) Vidyasagar was genuinely compassionate but he missed to see the same in ppl around.
He was sad. Now how a person with such a huge knowledge could be sad ?
Swamiji said 'he had every knowledge except the 'brahmgyan' . what practise of regular meditation brings forth - nothing can.
He was expecting to see the same in ppl. Expectation brings sorrow. He was unable of letting go. So here we connect the compassion to the conciousness. N further to 'Acceptance'. Accepting everyone as they are. After teaching good to them ,if ppl are not showing progress in that path - we hav to accept that they are unable to take that. 'Let go' too is connected with this same very compassionate feeling. And it can only comes through continuous practise of Meditation.
Once that happiness could be found, conciousness spreads and a person becomes worthy to accept n let go.I do good for you doesnot mean you do that in return. Ppl do have their own capability of understanding other's pain. Mostly they dont. Knowing that n doing good still for others comes with a beautiful inner stamina.
Happy New year :-) May this year we all blossom into one conciousness ♡
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