Seeing Another's Pain as One's Own

answered by Bhagavad Gītā 6:32

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Erin Brockovich (2000)

dir. Steven Soderbergh · USA

When a vast organization erases the suffering of the powerless into numbers, one person with no credentials and no standing tries to give each number back a name and a face. In a fight that looks unwinnable, what becomes the strength not to give up?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Have I turned people's suffering into numbers to be processed, forgetting the face behind each one?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

ātma-aupamyena sarvatra samaṁ paśyati

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

By the measure of oneself, one who everywhere sees others' joy and pain as one's own.

💡 TL;DR

The old teacher of the Gita painted the highest state as the heart that sees another's pain as one's own.

📝The Classic Answers

The old teacher of the Gita painted the highest state as the heart that sees another's pain as one's own. An organization turns suffering into numbers to handle it easily, and in that instant the face is erased. The power of one unqualified person to give each number back a name comes from having measured that pain against oneself. Before handling a problem efficiently, I choose first to measure the person inside it against myself.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Recall one thing you handled today as a 'case,' and redraw the face of the single person behind it.

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gītā 6:32. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.