Page 26 - All India Magazine Jun-2026

have explained this often), they lose someone they loved, and
suffer and weep, it is not over the state of that person they
weep, for most of the time, ninety-nine times out of a hun-
dred, they do not know the state of the person, they cannot
even know whether that person is happy or unhappy, whether
he is suffering or in peace, but it is over the sense of separa-
tion they themselves experience, because they loved to have
that person near them and he has gone. So, always at the
root of human sorrow there is a turning back upon oneself,
more or less conscious, more or less — how to put it? — ac-
knowledged, but it is always that. Even when one weeps over
another's misery, there is always a mixture. There is a mixture,
but as soon as the psychic gets mingled in the sorrow, there is
an element of "reversed compassion" (that's what I was trying
to explain a moment ago) which comes into the being and, if
one can disentangle the two, concentrate upon that, come
out of one's ego and unite with this reversed compassion,
through this one can come into contact with the great uni-
versal Compassion which is something immense, vast, calm,
powerful, deep, full of perfect peace and an infinite sweet-
ness. And this is what I mean when I say that if one just knows
how to deepen one's sorrow, go right to its very heart, rise
beyond the egoistic and personal part and go deeper, one can
open the door of a great revelation. That does not mean that
you must seek sorrow for sorrow's sake, but when it is there,
when it comes upon you, always if you can manage to rise
above the egoism of your sorrow — seeing first which is the
egoistic part, what it is that makes you suffer, what the ego-
istic cause of your suffering is, and then rising above that and
going beyond, towards something universal, towards a deep
fundamental truth, then you enter that infinite Compassion,
and there, truly it is a psychic door that opens. So, if someone

All India Magazine, June 2026
26