COMPASSION HAS NO NATURE BECAUSE IT EXISTS WITHIN ITSELF
What is the nature of compassion? Compassion has no nature because compassion exists within itself. If you try to define compassion, your mind will be involved. And once the mind is involved, how can compassion be felt? Compassion comes from the heart.
Compassion knows no analysis; it is a natural heart phenomenon. When compassionate feelings arise within you, your mind will not analyze them. If I love you and compassion is brought into being in that love, can I ever define that love, which is the blood brother of compassion? Once you start analyzing compassion, you become compassionless. Compassion is a welling up of the heart, where you know the depth, and understanding the depth within you, you experience the depth.
It would be a great lie if I said I am compassionate to you. No, I am compassionate within myself. Ah, because when you analyze it, you say, “Come, passion.” And when you ask passion to come, it is always self-motivated because true compassion does not come. And because it does not come, a great purity lies within you. To find the purity of compassion, you do not ask for it to come. You prepare yourself. And then it just dawns upon you.
The preparation lies in your spiritual practices, wherein you become all love, all kindness, and all compassionate. Buddha was described as the Compassionate One, but he never tried to be compassionate. It becomes your natural self. It becomes your nature to be that.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: “From Darkness To Light.”
