One morning you were in a park in Bandra, and saw a man hitting a younger man and scolding him for not working properly. They paused briefly when they saw you—a flash of annoyance on the older man’s face, compact humiliation on the younger one’s face. It scared you, and you fled. Things like this remind you of a story you’d read as a child. Sri Ramakrishna was visiting Kanyakumari, looking out to the sea, when he saw a man being beaten on a boat. He felt the man’s pain so severely that with each lash, red welts started to appear on his own back—a formative lesson in empathy and compassion ingrained in your memory. During a Value Education class in school, they narrated the story of a man who got married to some evil woman and was hence compelled to send his parents off to an old-age home. A
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One morning you were in a park in Bandra, and saw a man hitting a younger man and scolding him for not working properly. They paused briefly when they saw you—a flash of annoyance on the older man’s face, compact humiliation on the younger one’s face. It scared you, and you fled. Things like this remind you of a story you’d read as a child. Sri Ramakrishna was visiting Kanyakumari, looking out to the sea, when he saw a man being beaten on a boat. He felt the man’s pain so severely that with each lash, red welts started to appear on his own back—a formative lesson in empathy and compassion ingrained in your memory. During a Value Education class in school, they narrated the story of a man who got married to some evil woman and was hence compelled to send his parents off to an old-age home. A