HUMANITY

 

 

Humanity simply means love for the Lord and His creation. Its other name is sympathy or compulsion, fellow feeling or heart-felt attraction. Its proof is that one hearts melts like wax on seeing the suffering of another. The other man’s suffering appears to him and his own.

 

He heartens him, feels sympathy for and is attracted to him, and takes steps to remove his sufferings. A man should feel for others and consider their sufferings as his own. If there are no feelings of kindness, mercy or love, then there is no difference in such a man and the figure of a man on the wall. Both are useless.

 

The heart without love is like a graveyard; just like the bellows of an ironsmith, which breathes though lifeless.

 

The fire of love being kindled, other virtues and gifts come of themselves.

God is love and the world lives by love. It is therefore the duty of a human being to love. One who loves never injures the feelings of others.