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comes only when one is confronted with misery, which is baffling. The state of renunciation which every person feels when his spouse undergoes the pains of delivery (which of course is possible in the modern world in such fortunate persons who do not lead the animal life and seek to continue human civilized life) or at times of death due to accident or result of unwanted violence which of course is possible, in the modern world of multi media invasion into the human consciousness and conscience, drilling into the senses violence and pornography and making human beings insensitive and apathetic to suffering, only in the individuals who have some how preserved sanity and still maintain the values of life and the value of life itself.
If only we reflect on the state of mind of Lord Buddha when he saw suffering and how he reacted to it, and compare ourselves now as to how we are reacting to such situation with absolute neglect, bordering on total apathy towards human suffering, the insensitivity we have developed becomes obvious. While it is suffering that prompted Lord Buddha to have a look into the nature of life and the ways of living happily, I dare say it is the insensitivity that we have developed that should be the matter of reflection for the
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