The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion: he has given it to them to protect the helpless………

…… Sri Ramakrishna.

Maybe, as the world gets divided in its views on both the Israeli war and the Ukraine war, we need to start feeling deeply for innocent men, women and children who are being killed, rendered homeless or are living in fear day in and day out.

Is it right that thousands live in this state?

Forget our religious or political affiliations, and let us start feeling a sense of deep compassion for those who are suffering.

A Story is told about a little boy with a big heart.

His next door neighbour was an old man whose wife recently had died. When the youngster saw the elderly man crying he climbed up onto his lap and simply sat there.

Later his mother asked the boy what he had said to their saddened neighbour. “Nothing,” the child replied, “I just helped him cry!”

In a London cemetery there were two funerals.

The first little coffin was followed by a solitary mourner, a rather lost looking woman, evidently the mother. There were no flowers on this coffin, while the other was covered with wreaths and bunches of flowers, and followed by several hundred people.

At the grave side one of the mourners who turned out to be the father took a wreath and a large bunch of lilies from his own child’s coffin and laid them upon the other. The lost looking mother nodded and wept but she knew she was not alone in her grief.

Small gestures go to the heart of those whose hearts are broken.

But I believe today, compassion needs more than just our tears or gestures.

In 1984 the newspapers told of the plight of a child in Mexico City. The child had been orphaned and severely burned in a gas explosion that took the lives of five hundred people.

Millions saw the story and probably quickly forgot it.

One woman in New York didn’t. She couldn’t get the little boy off her mind.

This woman’s concern led to efforts to find the boy, followed by two years of medical assistance, gifts, visits and finally adoption proceedings. The poor homeless boy who had felt earlier that he had lost everything was overjoyed to find that he had someone who cared so much for him that she gave up her normal life to care for him.

In a world where help, compassion and aid have become a chanakyan chess game, let us start reacting a little louder. greed and materialism are showing their ugly heads compassion can be a powerful antidote.

                                 “A heartfelt tear can show our love

                                        As words can never do:

                                  But more than tears stern reactions say, —

                                      Our hearts go out to you.”

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