Path Beyond Sorrow

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From the Book:

Remember how the ancients behaved and mark also how other do now. Like corn the mortal ripens and like corn he is born again.

Katha Upanishad.

The whole world is stricken with woes caused by the individuals themselves, or by Nature, seen and unseen. That being the condition, every living being deserves to be pitied; who, possessed of thought, would then be hostile to any? Supposing one believes, "Other beings are happy; I alone am so object and powerless." Still one ought to be in good spirits ! for the outcome of hatred is only loss. If other persons bear unabated malice towards one, still the wise man ought to consider them as objects of extreme commiseration, thinking, "Ah ! these are steeped in their excessive delusion." The whole universe is a spreading-out of the omnipresent Lord. Hence the discerning person must view it without partiality, and as his own self. God, men, beasts, birds and trees-these, though existing apparently different, are the veritable configurations of the infinite all-pervading Lord. He who is aware of this must look upon the entire sentient and insentient creation as his own self; because the Supreme Self has invested Himself in this multiform universe. When one experiences this the Supreme, beginningless Blessed Lord, who is never subjected to any change by the creation Becomes Propitious, and when he is gracious Miseries die away.

Vishnu Purana.