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The Practice of Humanity
give him vegetables. He will go and sell them for one day, he will go and sell them for the second day; his business will get started. There are many solutions like this one. The Sign of Humanity
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Questioner: When we discuss this topic of Dada's with our friends, they say, "We practice humanity and that is enough." They say this and dismiss the matter.
Dadashri: Yes, if they [really] practiced humanity, then we would refer to them as God. Eating, bathing, drinking tea; that cannot be referred to as practicing humanity.
Questioner: No. What people refer to as the practice of humanity is to help each other, to do good for someone else, to be helpful to humankind; that is what people understand as the practice humanity.
Dadashri: That cannot be humanity. Even the poor animals understand and help their relatives.
The practice of humanity means that in every situation, one has the thought, 'How would I feel if this happened to me?' If that thought does not first arise, then one is not within the bounds of humanity. The moment someone swears at me, before swearing back at that person, in my mind I have the thought, 'If this has caused me so much pain, then if I swear at him, how much pain will he feel!' If one admits this and concedes, then a resolution will come about.
The first sign of practicing humanity is this. The practice of humanity begins from this point. The beginning of practicing humanity should be right from here! If this beginning is not there, then one has not understood the practice of humanity at all.
Questioner: As the intent, 'Just as I feel pain, others
