All 15 Uses of
compassion
in
The Ramayana
- Well skilled is he the bow to draw,(19) Well trained in arts and versed in law; High-souled and meet for happy fate, Most tender and compassionate; The noblest of all lordly givers, Whom good men follow, as the rivers Follow the King of Floods, the sea: So liberal, so just is he.†
Book 1
- To me this pearl of dames he gave From childless woe mine age to save, The daughter whom he loved so much, Moved by compassion's gentle touch.†
Book 1 *
- Nor let compassion lead thy mind To shrink from blood of womankind; A monarch's son must ever count The people's welfare paramount, And whether pain or joy he deal Dare all things for his subjects' weal; Yea, if the deed bring praise or guilt, If life be saved or blood be spilt: Such, through all time, should be the care Of those a kingdom's weight who bear.†
Book 1
- The hermit with his tender eyes Looked on Trisanku's altered guise, And grieving at his ruined state Addressed him thus, compassionate: "Great King," the pious hermit said, "What cause thy steps has hither led, Ayodhyá's mighty Sovereign, whom A curse has plagued with outcast's doom?"†
Book 1
- My head before thy feet, I kneel, And pray thee some compassion feel.†
Book 2
- The monarch mourns thy altered fate And vails his brow compassionate: Bowed down by bitter grief he lies And dares not lift to thine his eyes.†
Book 2
- And Lakshma? too, the blameless-souled, The same high course with him will hold, And mighty bliss on him shall wait, So tenderly compassionate.†
Book 2
- Come, to Kausalyá let us flee: Our hope, our sure defence is she, Approved by all, of virtuous mind, Compassionate, and good, and kind.†
Book 2
- Brother, to me compassion show, I pray thee with my head bent low, And to these friends who on thee call,— As the Great Father pities all.†
Book 2
- Were he the meanest of the base, Unhonoured with a single grace, My husband still I ne'er would leave, But firm through all to him would cleave: Still rather to a lord like mine Whose virtues high-exalted shine, Compassionate, of lofty soul, With every sense in due control, True in his love, of righteous mind, Like a dear sire and mother kind.†
Book 2
- Bright flashed her eye as Lakshma? spoke And forth her words of fury broke Upon her truthful guardian, flung With bitter taunts that pierced and stung: "Shame on such false compassion, base Defiler of thy glorious race!†
Book 3
- If, Sítá hidden by some tree, Thou joyest still to mock at me, Cease, cease thy cruel sport, and take Compassion, or my heart will break.†
Book 3
- The spirits with their blinded eyes Would look in wonder, and despise The Lord who made the worlds, the great Creator when compassionate.†
Book 3
- Away with mercy! at a time Like this compassion is a crime.†
Book 6
- When first these dreary years began, When first I saw the banished man, With Sítá, in his hermit coat, At this sad heart compassion smote.†
Book 6
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help