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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others? Just keep off mosquitoes since you suffer by their stings.
Source Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 53, §2 · 📖 Read the full text on his ashram’s website
✨ To meditate on today
According to Ramana Maharshi, a sage of South India, your own sensitivity to suffering helps you recognise that of other lives: keeping the mosquito away is enough, there is no need to harm it. Today, spare a small creature, an insect or a plant, and offer some gentleness to someone who is suffering.
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