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true compassion
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is not about
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giving or taking
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true compassion is just doing what's
needed
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you have no preferences of your own
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simply doing what's needed
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is compassion
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you revving yourself up into a huge
amount of emotion and reaching out to somebody
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is not compassion
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this is just self satisfaction devious ways
to fulfill yourself
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compassion is possible
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genuine compassion is possible
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when there is nothing to fulfill in you you're
just doing what's needed
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but always
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if you get into your deep emotion and do something
you think that was a very compassionate moment
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no you're seeking self fulfillment
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I'm not saying anything right or wrong
it is still coming from a certain inadequacy
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so an overly compassionate sage who
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was indiscriminately disposing off
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people's needs
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because of his austerities he had obtained
to a certain capability and he was giving it
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away
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so one day shiva called him
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and tried to advise him
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said this is not good
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the way you're
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dispensing
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gifts and boons to other people
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this will not bring well being to you
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or to the people whom you give
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it may bring you much trouble
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it may bring him much trouble or both of you
much trouble
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so
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stop giving these boons
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people come and ask
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it's okay
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you don't have to give
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Parvati Shiva's wife who was sitting there
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she said oh my lord
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how is this possible
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as it is there are very few givers in the world
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as it is there are very few people who are willing
to give anything
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in the world
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and a few men who are giving
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you are trying to restrain them also
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what is the point
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at least a few men who are willing to do that
let them give
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you must explain this to me
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this is not fair
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there are very few givers
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that also you want to discount and make
it much smaller
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then Shiva said see
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this is not
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about depriving people of something
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this is not about depriving the world
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of receiving something
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nor is it an effort to deprive the person
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to have the pleasure of giving something
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it is just that
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use of helping people to evolve
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where they will naturally receive the bounty
of life
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and any one person if you give something
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you will only overburden him
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you will only destroy his life
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you of your consent about
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somebody's ultimate well being
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you must put him through the painstaking process
of evolving him
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to a higher possibility where he will receive
higher
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dimensions of life
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where receiving just happens to him because
he deserves it
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if you
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gift a ton of gold to an ant
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it will only crush the ant
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you do not make the ant rich
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it'll only crush the ant
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so what you give
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how you give
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is very important
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you don't just give because somebody's asking
