Be Ready to Remove Others’ Pain

Be Ready to Remove Others’ Pain One way of leading one’s life is thinking only about oneself, being concerned only about one’s own comfort and problems. Once his problems have been solved, he does not care about anyone else. But such a person is not a true human being. His character is not of the noble kind which nature demands. The true human being is one who becomes uneasy at the pain of others, just as he is uneasy about his own pain. He should be ready to remove others’ pain just as he does on his own behalf. As he becomes active in solving his own problems, he looks upon the affairs of others as he looks upon his own. He is happy to see others happy and sad to see others sad or in trouble. What differentiates human beings from stones is this sensitivity. A stone has no sensitivity, while a human being is a sensitive creature. If a person loses his sensitivity, there will be no difference between him and a piece of stone.