Compassion Cannot Choose

"When the tsunami happened, everyone was reaching out. I do not understand why people are not reaching out to the HIV situation in the same way and with the same vigor. Why Not? Clearly compassion cannot choose." - Sadhguru

This small booklet is printed to help spread awareness about AIDS and HIV. These are Sadhguru's answers to many emotional and heart-felt questions posed to him about the current spread of these indiscriminate diseases.

"Suffering is suffering, whatever may have been the cause for it. When there is suffering, what caused it is not important. There is no such thing as one kind of suffering being great and another kind of suffering being small. It is not right to think that is one suffers from cancer, you must give him love, and if another suffers from HIV/AIDS you must not give him love.

If our humanity is functional, when someone is suffering, we spontaneously feel that we ought to do something about it. No one has to teach this to us. But because we have come to wrong conclusions about those suffering from HIV/AIDS, an environment has been created in this society, to act against human nature, thereby destroying the humanity in us.

When the tsunami happened, everyone was reaching out. I do not understand why people are not reaching out to the HIV situation in the same way and with the same vigor. Why Not? Clearly compassion cannot choose." - Sadhguru