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Shrimad Rajchandra's Message
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was that it transcended the visible living organisms and extended to those that were unseen to the human eye.
One comes across examples of his compassion in many of his human relationships. When Shrimad lived in Mumbai, his long-serving servant called Lallu developed a tumour in his body and became seriously ill. Shrimad immediately started tending to his needs to make him feel comfortable. Everyone was surprised to see Shrimad taking care of his servant in this manner. Shrimad made no distinction between himself and his servant, he always felt that all souls, including his and those of others were equal. How encompassing was his vision to have even considered his servant to be no different from himself? He was the true embodiment of sheer compassion.
Shrimad's spiritual attainments ran in parallel with the deepening of his compassion. He often referred to compassion as a part of spirituality in his letters to his followers. In one of his letters, written in the Aso month of VS 1955, he referred to the famine in Mumbai and Marwad (now part of Rajasthan). The
