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Sorrow Matures into Right Action
As your consciousness grows, the sense of separateness gradually dissolves.
Manuel Enrique
January 13, 2026
It is difficult today not to feel the weight of the world. News of war, persecution, famine, and political hatred reaches us instantly, no matter where we live. Entire populations are displaced or starving, while political parties, races, nations, and religions turn against one another with increasing hostility. Even when one’s own life is filled with love, safety, and abundance, this constant awareness of suffering makes complete happiness feel elusive. I notice that I can feel it as a quiet, persistent sorrow that arises simply from knowing what others are enduring.
One might think that this feeling is a sign of weakness, a sign of pessimism, but the Yogis differ. They teach it’s a sign of spiritual expansion. As your consciousness grows, the sense of separateness gradually dissolves. You no longer experience life as “me versus the world.” You start seeing yourself and others as participating in a shared human reality. In this state, joy and pain are no longer confined to you.
Yogi Ramacharaka explains that when a person reaches this stage of spiritual consciousness, when the illusion of separateness has fallen away, indifference to the suffering of others becomes impossible. He writes:
“In that day man no longer will be content to enjoy luxury while his brother starves—he will not be able to oppress and exploit his own kind—he will not be able to endure much that today is passed over without thought and feeling by the majority of people. And why will he not be able to do these things? Simply because the man who has experienced this new consciousness has broken down the old feeling of separateness, and his brother’s pain is felt by him—his brother’s joy is experienced by him—he is in touch with others.”
This helps explain why someone who feels deeply connected to others may struggle to be “fully happy” in an unjust world. Personal comfort alone doesn’t satisfy when other people’s pain feels like yours. Joy still exists, but it’s no longer separate or unbothered. The world’s ache marks the widening of the heart.
For the Yogi, sorrow is a teacher that matures into responsibility, compassion, and right action.
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