Pondering Insult

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Jaya Guru Datta,

 

Today's saying comes from Satyanarayana, (Swamiji as a young lad,)

pondering the insult of His Uncle Krishnappa, who suspected Satya had stolen

a watch:

 

“They have not actually insulted me. It is not their mistake. But what has

happened is still an insult. Wh then is responsible? Mo one. If so, the

action of me getting insulted has taken place with no individual actully

insulting me. Then, why the insult, which has no idnividual responsible for,

has fallen on my head? So, it must be the result of actions of my past

birth. Therefore I have to come to the conclusion that I am responsible for

the insult I am experiencing. I see now that if I have to face the insult

as a result of my own past actions, without the medium of an outside party,

insult can still befall on me. If so, even if there could be an outside

party who could still insult me, he cannot insult me if I have not done

anything wrong in my past birth. So, even then, if I am insulted, it has

to be my own fault. So, whatever the situation may be, I am the only person

respoonsible for the insult. If I had to experience the insult because of

my past deeds, it will definitely befall on me even in the absence of the

medium of another person to insult me. If so, all these days when I had

been insulted by Ambamma, (Swamiji's Aunt and teacher,) and others and when

I felt that I had excused them and had won over the feeling of hatred, that

feeling must have been utterly wrong. If I am responsible for the insutls I

faced, what a fool and egotistic person I have to be to think that I have

excused them. When there was no enemies in the batlefield, what a cheat I

have to be to think that I have achieved victory.

 

There are no wicked people, no betrayers in this world. I am reaping the

results of my own wicked actions."

 

Sri Swamiji

Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Biography of a Divine Incarnate, pp. 128-129

 

Sri Guru Datta,

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