[Advaita-l] Request to answer this question

[Michael Shepherd]

Namaste

Shantananda said once -- to my surprise -- that compassion is a natural
emanation from atman. (Perhaps reason should not have been surprised...)For
me, that simplifies the process of 'caring'.

Michael

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[mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org]On Behalf Of Sunil
Bhattacharjya
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Namaste,

Swami Vivekananda says that the sufferings of people are due to their past
karma but we should make it our karma to help those who suffer.

Sincerely,

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

--- On Fri, 7/24/09, Muralidhar Maddala <muralidhar.maddala at gmail.com>
wrote:

From: Muralidhar Maddala <muralidhar.maddala at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Request to answer this question
To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 11:51 AM

Namasthe all,

Which is a more appropriate way  for a vedantist to respond/behave while
dealing with pains / sufferings of others ?

Do they attribute the situation to law of karma, explain the hidden rational
and help the sufferer realise?  Or do they practise to consider this
suffering as aspect of maya and opt to move on with
a prayer to reduce/remove  the suffering ?  Or do they opt to own the
responsibility and "act" to reduce the suffering out of the unconditional
love ?  What are the guildlines on this as per the shashtras?
Thankyou,
Murali



On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> Though the statement is convincing as it gives a practical example, how
> does one explain the different levels of suffering for different
> individuals? I mean, though everyone is the same, we all suffer
> differently. So we are bound to have anger, greed etc,.
>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> How same electricity (power) appears as revolving force in fan and heating
> element in stove, cooling gadget   in refrigerator??  I think answer lies
> there...Due to nAma rUpa (name & form) upAdhi (limited adjuncts)
> sambandha, it appears that jeeva is suffering differently in different
> compartments of body, mind & intellect...but jeeva is neither sufferer,
> nor enjoyer, nor doer...thinking that I am doer, sufferer, enjoyer is the
> basic ignorance that vedanta asks us to get rid off through sAdhana....
>
> HariHari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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