Compassion (Daya)

Meaning of the cell

Imagination allows the player to imagine the possible motives behind other people's actions. He sees that another person may also have been hurt or offended, whether by himself or by someone else. He knows that both he and the others are players in a cosmic game whose meaning and rules far surpass their present level of understanding. He realizes that there are other, higher states from which a person may judge the actions of others. This compassionate understanding allows him to forgive the other person. It frees his consciousness from self-identification, and he soars upward to the plane of the Absolute. Compassion, kindness, and patience have at all times fostered the development of the good in a person, helping in the purification of emotions, the shaping of character, and ethical development. The barriers of personality collapse, and the player's mind becomes a reflection of the Divine. Compassion is the renunciation of one's self. Yet it cannot free the player from the karma he has accumulated, and so he must continue throwing the die until he is bitten by the snake on the square of tamoguna, which will allow him to return to earth to complete his mission.