How can advanced devotees be both transcendental to material pains and still sensitive to others’ material pains?

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question pure devotees are transcendental to all pain and pleasure and yet they are sensitive to the pains and pleasures of others how do we understand this contradiction answer when we say that pure devotees are transcendental that does not mean that they are like stones incapable of feeling any pleasure or pain no it is just that because they have experienced higher pleasure and they have experienced higher life which is richer with higher deeper sweeter emotions in relationship with Krishna that’s why they are not affected by material emotions so it’s like a parent is not affected when I say a child is playing a game and the child loses in the game the parent understands that this is just a game the child is crying but the parent will not cry at that time but because the parent doesn’t cry doesn’t mean that the parent has become heartless the parent may well also have as a child have played that game and lost and gone through similar emotions but now because the parent is grown up so now those emotions do not affect anymore so similarly for an advanced devotee when the advanced devotees are transcendental to the pains and pleasures of this world that means that they are not affected because they have outgrown those pains and pleasures it’s not that they are they are not insentient or insensitive or stone like it’s just that they have outgrown those pains and pleasures but still because they have a capacity for empathy so they can understand what pains and pleasures the materialistic people the people who are attached are going through and because of that sensitivity they can sympathize they can even empathize and in that way by their empathy they can guide guide the other people who are attached to gradually break free from those attachments to develop higher attachments and through the power of those higher attachments break free from their illusions and their misconceptions their misconceptions, their attachments and as they grow as the attached people grow and develop their attachment for Krishna then they too will not feel any illusory pains so it’s a gradual process of growing up and that’s how the pure devotees can be transcendental in terms of not being themselves consumed by material emotions but at the same time empathetic towards those who are being overwhelmed by such emotions