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Soul Sustenance 15-12-2012
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Injustices And Suffering In The World – Applying The Law of Karma (Part 1)
We are presently living in a closely connected world where everyone knows what everyone
else is doing, as they are doing it. Each day brings scenes and images, through
the media, in front of us, of many apparent injustices and suffering of individuals
or groups of individuals. Whether it's in the office, or in the market or on the
television news, we hear and see reports of people suffering tremendous pain and
sorrow at the hands of others. At these moments, our sense of injustice is stimulated
and it becomes easy to rise in outrage against the sinners. In the process we ourselves
suffer from our own self-created anger and perhaps hate. This process then becomes
a habit and an inner pattern we begin to repeat, not only when we encounter scenes
of global peacelessness, but the moment someone in the family or at office does
something similar. A panic button is pressed and we react with the same pattern.
What we forget in both global and local contexts, is the history and geography of
karma. Every scene and situation has a variety of related causes in both time (history)
and space (geography) e.g. emotions of hatred and revenge amongst various
countries and religions (in different parts of the world) and the actions connected
with these emotions has underlying hidden causes, related to the Law of Karma (Law
of Cause and Effect) which go back sometimes to hundreds of years – X is doing something
with Y because Y had done something similar with X sometime in the past, but in different
physical costumes, sometimes quite some time back in history – this is the
reason, we often fail to take these causes into consideration when viewing these
negative scenes and situations, because we see the situations with a limited perspective
of present physical costumes and circumstances.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 15-12-2012
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With humility and love, flexibility becomes natural.
Expression: In order to be flexible we need to have the virtue of humility.
With humility we will be willing to understand the people around and their behaviour.
Then we will also be able to have love for them. This automatically brings flexibility
within us.
Experience: When we come across people who are not being cooperative, we
need to become humble and try to understand what the they are communicating, if
not through words at least through their actions. When we are able to listen with
love and understanding, we will no more be rigid but can easily adapt ourselves.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris