Explain the statement below with reference to the character of the postmaster in Tagore's "The Postmaster."'He reflected philosophically that in...

This is a great moment in Tagore's short story.  In its
conclusion, the orphan Ratan, who had found some semblance of stability and normalcy
with serving the postmaster, asks to accompany him in his departure.  He laughs at her. 
When he leaves, he offers her money, but she runs away, partly in sadness, partly out of
her own condition of being abandoned again.  The postmaster leaves and as he does, he
thinks about what he has done.

Essentially, the postmaster
has broken another person's heart.  As the French theorist Benjamin Constant once said,
" No meta-physician has ever been able to justify the breaking of another's heart."  The
postmaster is left to reflect about the pain he inflicted on Ratan.  He is overcome with
a sense of sadness, something that Tagore suggests is felt within the constructs of the
earth, a feeling emanating from the center of the universe.  This overwhelms him and
subsumes him.  Yet, the catch, and where Tagore is simply brilliant is that he
constructs the postmaster to be consistently self- absorbed.  The postmaster begins to
rationalize that there is suffering everywhere, and that people feel pain all over.  For
the postmaster, there are so many instances of separation, loneliness, death, and pain
that what the postmaster did to Ratan is simply one more instance. It does not change
anything, as there will still be pain with or without the postmaster's
contribution.  In the end, "there are many separations, many
deaths." This allows the postmaster to feel better about what
he has done.

Tagore's inclusion of this line about there is
a philosophical approach to avoiding taking responsibility for the causing of one's pain
is simply brilliant.  It allows the viewer to see the true and self- absorbed nature of
the postmaster for if he really felt bad, he could have reversed course and taken her. 
He didn't.  He looked for a reason to escape his own sense of budding guilt and was able
to find it in a philosophical justification that asserted there was so much suffering
and pain in the world and his own inclusion would have made no difference.  Tagore
rightfully though points out that "Ratan had no such consolations" to alleviate her own
pain, which is why she becomes the heroine of the story.