The Ocean of Light — Page 124
124 on him even though he knows that the beggar has nowhere to go and may not have tasted food for more than two days. He does not even give a single thought to where the poor man will go in the dead of night and what he will do at such a torturous and painful time. In a nutshell, compassion has become scarce and the problems that face the weak have multiplied, because everyone whether they live in the east or west have forsaken compassion and friendship. Even near relatives have become like scorpions, so anyone who is driven by hunger ends up leaving his home and family and follows poverty wherever poverty may lead him. He follows poverty no matter how it turns him round and round. He leaves his loved ones with teary eyes and a broken heart, and it is not even known whether he is alive, so that they should wait for his return, or that he has been consigned to an empty grave. He may be screaming in a strange land, “O my Wife! O My Son! Where art Thou! Being away from you has killed me