Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

Text 51] Lord Caitanya's Travels to the Holy Places 319
than ourselves. However, if there is a superior person present, the superior person
cannot be the object of our mercy. Rather, we are objects for the mercy of the
superior person. Therefore showing compassion and mercy is a relative activity. It
is not the Absolute Truth. Apart from this, we also must know what actual mercy
is. To give a sick man something forbidden for him to eat is not mercy. Rather, it is
cruelty. Unless we know what mercy really is, �may create an undesirable situa­
tion. If we wish to show real mercy, we will preach Kr�r:Ja consciousness in order
to revive the lost consciousness of human beings, the living entity's original con­
sciousness. Since the Buddhist philosophy does not admit the existence of the
spirit soul, the so-called mercy of the Buddhists is defective.
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