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Soul Sustenance 18-11-2012
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Negative Reactions To Negative Actions
We very commonly react negatively with anger to another person’s anger filled words
or actions, which we perceive to be unjustified or unreasonable. But this kind of
action on our part, which we feel is our right and is a justified reaction or response,
only adds to the negative energy already existing inside a particular situation,
increasing the energy and making the situation even more complicated and difficult
to resolve. Two negatives never make a positive, they make a higher negative,
to which a very high positive has to be added (as compared to before) to bring the
situation back to neutral or normal. Also, when you react, you are doing exactly
what you believe the other person, the attacker, is doing – injuring someone on
an emotional level, which is a form of subtle violence.
Lastly and very importantly, the other person’s negative and impulsive behavior,
directed at you, portrays that at that particular moment he/she is experiencing
an emptiness or void of wisdom, joy, peace, love and power, a void which he/she
believes you have created and can only be re-filled by you. The anger filled
action is a desire directed towards you, for this filling up. Hidden behind his/her
anger is the feeling, "Because of this person, I have lost my happiness at this
particular moment and he/she should give it back to me immediately", which means
that the other person is lacking the realization that no other person is ever responsible
for your happiness. You are, always. Instead of switching on the awareness of this
spiritual fact and emerging the value of forgiveness inside yourself, forgiveness
because the other person is lacking this wisdom at that moment of time, you react,
which makes you similar to him possessing a similar belief, something which you
will definitely not appreciate too much. But, what happens is that the emotional
storm inside you at that moment hides your ability to see how you are yourself injuring
your spiritual heart. While you are in that emotional state, there is no way you
can heal the wounds of the other’s heart i.e. correct the other person.
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Message for the day 18-11-2012
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With benevolent feelings and good wishes we can free people from worrying.
Expression: When we come across someone who is faced with a difficult situation
because of which he is worrying, we too usually tend to think about it. Instead
of helping the other person to be free from worrying, we too begin to worry. This
doesn't help either of us in anyway but only adds to the negativity of the situation.
Experience: We need to develop such benevolent feelings for the ones who
are going through the situation that the power of our positive feelings will spread
to them too. It will act like the light of the lamp, which helps to dispel the darkness
around. Only when there is positivity in the mind will they be able to think of
some solution.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris