When You are Alright, then the Sound of Your Footsteps Is Compassion
When you are not bothered about the other, that is when you are totally compassionate. When you are not trying to change the other, that is when you become an agent of change. Compassion is not about thinking all the time of others. You cannot try to be compassionate. When you are alright, then the sound of your footsteps is compassion. That is what compassion is.
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Questioner: How to be free from this division between ‘pure’ and ‘unpure’, between ‘wise’ and ‘foolish’?
Acharya Prashant: The desire is to be able to distinguish between the true and the false, the wise and the unwise, the real and the unreal, right action and the wrong action. That is the desire. The only thing is that whatever will come out of desire will necessarily be a misplaced action. The very definition of the wrong action is that it is an action coming out of desire. Now if I desire to know the right action, can I ever know the right action?
Please go into the situation. What is the right action?
Right action is that which comes from actually nowhere. It just happens. And therefore, it is fresh. And therefore, it does not need assistance from the past. “I want the right action.” When I say, “I want the right action,” surely, I have an image in mind. I say, “This is the right action.” That image is coming from the past. But right action, by definition, is the one that cannot come from the past; which means that all my efforts to distinguish between right and wrong, wise and unwise, true and false, will always be unsuccessful. Or will appear successful but will yield very harmful results. It is an auspicious sign if one wants to make that distinction.
