What is Compassion?
If someone is having a bad dream in which they are clearly disturbed and suffering, what is the compassionate thing to do? Do you talk to them to understand what the dream is about and try and give them instructions on how to escape whatever it is that is troubling them or tell them to pray for divine intervention? Or do you shake them and tell them "wake up it's only a dream"? Then they discover that none of it was true and all their problems are solved at a stroke.
Well, if you are reading this it is because you wrote it yourself. Wake up it's only a dream.
You as Ramana Maharshi - 1921