Living in paradise! That is how the world would be, if all living beings are treated with absolute compassion!
Very often, the term, living beings are associated with human beings, animals, birds and of course the insects too. But, at a larger vision, the trees, plants, and the grass are not counted in. Nature is beautiful, it gives us everything in abundance, but we take it for granted and ignore the blessings, forget gratitude.
Absolute compassion is the key to open minds cluttered with superiority, negativity, ego, nonchalance and a lot more attitudes. The picture would look so much more beautiful, if the portrait of the world is painted with acceptance, awareness, compassion, unconditional love, humility and empathy. Colloquial words like underprivileged, handicapped, and a lot more associated with neuro divergence would not be available in dictionaries and local parlance!
I start at the grass(root) level. Green grass is something we club with prosperity, flowers are for freshness and new start! But we see many people just plucking at them for no reason at all, while chatting or walking. Do we ever think that these plants too breathe! And if they spoke, they might be begging you to stop that!
Trees are nature’s way of telling us with compassion that they are our support system, not just for providing shade! But do we really return that compassion? Barks of trees are chiselled with alphabets, as a gesture to show love! Forests are nature’s reminder to the world, to protect ecology, weather, and the animal inhabitants. Compassion is required in abundance from our side, to stop destroying the flora and fauna, who, on the other hand, shower mankind with the same.
Birds and animals are God’s creation to fill the world with beauty. Instead of harming them, by caging them, true compassion shines when we allow them to live their lives in their territories. A tiger, a lion, an elephant… All may be interesting and exciting to watch at a zoo or circus, but do we realise the agony these animals experience silently? Forests are their homes, where they wander independently. Curbing their freedom is highly uncompassionate.
In the same way, caging birds and keeping them as pets at home, is too uncompassionate. Allowing the birds to fly high in the sky is true compassion!
Feeding crows everyday has been the way our ancestors have shown us, to prove and add compassion in our daily lives, which many of us rarely follow these days, under the mask of being too busy. Rangolis made with rice powder, are not just for decorating the house, they are the food for countless ants. This is also a culture of compassion woven in our indian family tradition! Feeding cows at a goshalaa is an act of pure compassion, which is again our way of thanksgiving too. A lot of other traditional procedures have been overlooked and not practised these days. Little do we realise that tradition too has compassion in its list!
The most important thing about compassion is that it shouldn’t be forced, and has to be natural. For instance, sympathy and compassion may sound as the same in meaning, but there is a thin line of difference between the two! Sympathy gives the feeling of superiority, and feeling that the other person is unfortunate or underprivileged. But, compassion is a feel that we get naturally, where everyone is equal, without any disparity, most important, there is no comparison at all.
We meet different people in our day-to-day life, while we travel, or in common places too. All of us don’t look or behave the same. Appearances, colour, stature, all are not matching, not to forget the differently abled or neurodivergent too. Instead of giving awkward glances, gossiping whispers or wrong attitudes, let us embrace everyone with true compassion. The world would get transformed into heaven, compassion creates bonding, between people, among nations too, in a wider concept.
Wars and politics would be erased from the face of the universe, and harmony would be the actual mantra driving the natural force of compassion in each and every living being. Let us move on bearing the light of true compassion!
The Momma Clan 
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