At a lot of ashrams in India, short little books on various life and spirituality topics are available from the ashram bookshop. These 20 page packets are great little reads. I wanted to share something I read about compassion and helping others that made a lot of sense to me. This one is from "A Guru Always Takes You for a Ride" by Sadhguru.
"Many times, human beings, once they reach a certain level of attainment, have an urge to be overly compassionate. Misplaced compassion always comes from your ego; you want to be the most compassionate person on the planet. Wherever anybody need anything - reach out. This is not coming from any kind of understanding, wisdom, or awareness... This problem is there among people - they want to be the most compassionate. True compassion is not about giving or taking. Ture compassion is just doing what is needed. You ave no preferences of your own; simply doing what is needed is compassion. Your revving yourself up into a huge amount of emotion and and reaching out to somebody is not compassion. This is just self-satisfaction, devious ways to fulfill yourself. Compassion is possible, genuine compassion is possible, when there is nothing to fulfill in you, you are just doing what is needed."
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So, "warm glow" is bad. ;)
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