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on seeking forgiveness from the minutest and invisible living organisms for the harm done to them. These lessons touched him deeply and were immediately inscribed in his heart. Whilst he was still learning these scriptures, his mother Devma asked him to help chop some vegetables. He was always keen to give a helping hand to his mother in her domestic work, but while he was cutting the vegetables he started shedding tears. Seeing him in such a state, his mother asked him what was making him cry. How could he answer his doting mother? His heart was filled with profuse compassion for the souls in the vegetables he was cutting, and this resulted in an unending stream of tears flowing from his eyes. Who can understand the agony of a great soul who has attained complete unification with every living being on this earth? Only one whose heart is filled with ever-flowing compassion as wide as the sky can feel it.
Shrimad Rajchandra has given to this world the unique gift
of compassion for every living species, both seen and unseen. That stands as the highest and the noblest measure of love for all. The
