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Daya 1 (Kindness or Mercy)
By Sant Chandra Prabhaji
Kindness is compassion, sympathy and kindheartedness, that is, on seeing someone being sad, our heart melts. A kind person cannot endure the pain of others, seeing their helplessness, he makes all efforts through his wealth, body and mind to alleviate the pain and cannot rest in peace till he does so.
Daya maalik mein raakhiye, tu kyon nirday hoye
Sai ke sab jeev hein, kidi kunjar doye
{Keep kindness in your heart, why are you being heartless. Every creature is made by the Lord, whether it be an insect or an animal.}
The Lord is merciful - in Gurbani, He has been described as the supreme merciful. He is the giver of life and is showering His mercy on everyone. Whether the creature is small or large, its soul is a part of the Lord. Non-Violence is the highest religion and we should follow it. We should do no violence through our thoughts, words or actions. It is said that the Almighty loves the attribute of kindness and those who become kind at heart, become very dear to the Him. One who becomes merciful, finds his reflection in everyone and thinks - the way I have a soul and feel the pain, everyone feels it similarly.
When a person sees the Lord everywhere and in everything, gets control of his senses, connects to the Sound Current, has contentment and bears kindness for all creatures, then his cleansing is over.
Antar daya na upjae, dhani sahenge maar
{With no kindness in his heart, even with all the material wealth one will have to undergo suffering.}
Why have you become so heartless and cruel? Isn’t He present in every living creature, is He not all pervading? Those who have become cruel and are ready to kill, this question is asked of them. Those who do not have kindness in their hearts will have to suffer at the hands of the Yama (Lord of Death).
The soul which sees the colors of the Lord, gets imbued with His greatness and is merciful to all creatures. Such a soul becomes one with Him and gets the attribute of kindness and then showers that kindness onto everyone. When the feeling of kindness takes strong roots, friendship is born and the soul starts loving everyone and speaks sweet language and conducts itself lovingly. Kindness is the source of all virtues.
Once there was king who was fond of hunting. He took his minister to hunt animals. After looking out for a long time, they could still not find any animal. The king surmising the reason for this, told the minister that I am such a good hunter that I have killed all the animals in the forest. The minister told the King that he could show him some animals, if the king vouched not to harm any of them. The king agreed to abide with the minister’s request. The minister was a disciple of a Guru and saw the Lord in every living creature. He used to bring cartloads of food to feed the animals. The animals also loved him. When they heard the sound of his carriage, they used to come out running and lovingly eat the food. So to show the king, he whistled for the animals and put the food out. To the king’s surprise, the animals came out of their hiding places and started licking the feet of the minister and eating the food. Then the minister explained to the king, they hide on hearing the noise of your chariot as you kill them. Now that you have vowed not to kill them, they have come out to receive your love. He said, O king, this is an arena of actions, if we kill animals, we will go to hell and go through the cycle of birth and death. If we kill a goat, we will become a goat and if we kill a hen, then we will become a hen. We will have to undergo the punishment for our deeds. We have to bear the results of both our good and bad deeds. Only saints have mercy on us and tell us what the right use of this life is.
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