The spiritual laws: Honesty -- Asteya

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Honesty and truthfulness are closely related to each other. If you

may encounter some present difficulties with one of them, you

probably may also find some disharmony with the other one.

 

Lack of truthfulness and lack of honesty is widespread all over this

planet in all levels of society, from children to governments and

even lawyers or judges. What is the cause for this disharmony ?? Most

often, the cause is fear. Fear of losing the friendship and / or love

from the other person or fear of punishment.

 

Past experiences of having been rejected, having lost a friend or

partner or having been painfully punished, makes people sometimes to

become more and more dishonest and lying. Learn to accept all others

the way they are and allow all of them to learn, give them a chance

to revise their behavior day after day without any pressure from any

outside person or institution. Allow them to revise all of their

behavioral patterns within themselves and between God and themselves.

One who may have rejected you for speaking the truth or being honest,

may have learned from his lesson and now is ready to accept straight

forward honesty in all situations. Just be a loving, honest and

truthful living lesson for others, but always remember to do whatever

you do with Divine Love, and leave all the rest.

 

The reason of anything you do shall be Divine Love - nothing but

Love - in all and any situations of life.

 

Here you will receive a few examples of honesty in various situations

of daily life and you will surely understand honesty and start to

apply and practicing it in all YOUR situations of life.

 

A honest businessmen will always give all full and true details about

the true nature of his products, material and services to his

customers. If he knows the products or services is a " special deal "

because it may have some minor hidden defects or it may be outdated,

he will of course tell this to his customers without being asked for.

A customer always has the right to assume the highest possible

quality of any products or services he is purchasing in any deal.

 

A customer has a true right to expect top quality even if the price

is low.

 

If for any reason you have some low quality material, services or

some defects that you know of, then you clearly point this out to

your customer. Make sure he exactly knows what effect this defects in

workmanship or material may have on his planned use of this product

or service. Leave the decision up to the customer, whether he may

accept this product or whether he may prefer a different one even

from a different business. A honest businessman may even ask his

customer for a honest offer for this product instead of fixing the

price himself.

 

If you miscount a product in your favor and realize it later on, you

will of course correct this as soon as possible. You may even contact

your customer to inform him. He trusts your honesty and may never

count or measure the quantity he ever receives from you.

 

If you are a customer and got more products than you paid for by your

or the businessmen' s mistake, the same applies to you as customer.

Point the difference out to your dealer supplying you. Pay the

difference at the earliest opportunity possible. Remember that some

of the missing material may have to be paid by employees. A customer

has the Divine right to trust his suppliers and all businessmen have

an equal Divine right to trust their customers.

 

Honesty also means that as an employee you use your employers

resources only as far as he personally pointed it out to you. Some

employees are getting used to make telephone calls from their

business places because it may be cheaper or more convenient. Ask

your employer about his policy in this regard. Never assume his

agreement just because it is common standard among employees. The

same may apply for many other products or services from your

employer, like stamps, photocopies, fax, e-mail, Internet

surfing, .... always remember that any company going broke may go

broke due to the sum of numerous small amounts missing that finally

may sum up to thousands or millions after many years. This difference

may often be the only cause for a company going broke, resulting in

dozens, hundred or more family loosing their daily source of income.

 

Government officials at any level shall become aware who's money they

are spending. How did you get this money. Has this money ever been

given to you, the governments or did you just tell people to give a

certain amount to you, else .... make sure you are fully conscious of

the personal source of all the money you are spending. Spend this

money in a spiritual way - one day someone else may spend YOUR money

the same way you do spend the money now. Any honest government

employee is SERVING his people. Whenever he spends official tax

money, he may first think of all the labor working hard for this

money before the government confiscates this taxes. Taxpayers seldom

have any chance to decide on the amount they are paying. The money is

simply taken from them.

 

Government officials and employees shall never earn more money than

the poorest among their tax payers. They shall select this government

job because of their Love for their people, because they want to

SERVE their people. Act day after day in every situation with

responsibility and the awareness of whom you are serving. Any person

in any situation is always fully responsible for any action and any

Karma caused.

 

Be prepared to take full personal responsibility for any thought,

emotion, word and ACTION you have ever had, be it on behalf of an

employer, government, Organization, family or anyone else. Never

forward the responsibility of your action, words, thoughts or

emotions to anyone else but yourself. The single only other authority

you may clear any responsibility for anything past, present or future

is God. You and only you are fully responsible for anything you ever

do or have done or will do. Even a policemen or soldier killing in

the name of " law " is finally causing personal Karma, as much of

course as the persons behind are causing by creating such laws to

allow killing or any other form of violence.

 

The same of course may apply for all employees and officials of any

international or national Organization. Accept such a job with the

only desire to serve an part of God's creation. Devote this work you

do entirely to God. He may reward you in heaven, once you have

accomplished your task on earth. Beware of the truth that any money

of any organization originally comes from working labor, from

citizens of many countries around the World, including some very poor

nations.

 

Any employee shall become aware of the fact, that the future of

thousands of families may depend on his honesty and behavior. The

welfare of suppliers, employees and customers may be affected by

honesty or dishonesty of a single person. Remember that all you are

ever causing to others may one day return to yourself. In this or in

any future incarnation. It may come back when you least expect it,

when you are already down because of all the Karma that has reached

you again from past times. This sometimes happens to wake you up and

make you aware of your behavior, to give you a chance to change and

re-orient yourself toward a spiritual behavior for the benefit of all

and the entire creation - far beyond the physical creation that you

may realize around you here on earth and when looking at a clear sky

in night time.

 

Honesty toward your self includes that you only accept jobs that you

can fully agree from within the deepest of your heart and soul. It

also includes that you can accept and realize the true nature of your

soul as being a creation of God. The truth of your being is Divine

Love and light. You are a Divine Child of God made to his image.

Honesty toward your self is a very important aspect too often

forgotten in many situations of life. Too many persons nowadays " sell

their soul and body " just for the simple cause of money. They do

anything they are asked to do, just to increase their profits or to

make any money at all.

 

A honest person always can look deep into any other persons eyes, and

look at himself in a mirror as well for many minutes and longer ....

continuously radiating a feeling of Love nothing but Divine Love.

 

When did you look into any other " strangers " eyes with a smile in

your face and nothing but Love in your heart.

 

A honest person always can accept any other person reading his mind

and his emotions, reading all of his " most secret " Records of life

and business, because a honest person may never have anything to

hide.

 

A honest person - even if yet imperfect for any reason - always asks

God to assist him in improving to become even more truthful, more

honest in any daily situation, whether it be in business, official,

government, sports, recreation, family, or any other situation ...

 

A honest person of any situation or position always can easily accept

the full and true publication of all his Records, thoughts and

emotions in any newspaper, radio, TV, WWW or by any other means.

 

If there is anything you ever want or wanted to hide from any other

person, clear it with God. God is the only " authority " the source of

Divine Love, grace and mercy who always can dissolve anything you

have done with the power of his Love for you and all his children.

Change your behavior until their is nothing left that you ever want

to hide anymore.

 

Live all your feelings and thoughts in your daily life and create a

full harmony between all your inside and your outside. However if you

get the idea or feeling that you may never live in your daily action

according to your thoughts and emotions, then you may reconsider all

of your thoughts and emotions, change and purify them until all of

them are a manifestation of Divine Love, until you can live them

publicly !!!

 

Your mind's thoughts and your emotions are public, because anyone

seeing or feeling an Aura can be aware of all of your thoughts and

emotions, in fact most or almost all people surrounding you are

affected in their behavior by your thoughts and emotions. Their

actions often are a re-action to your thoughts and emotions.

 

An equation about honesty may read as follows. Strive to understand

it and realize it in all your being.

 

Honesty = all your thoughts = all your emotions = all of your

physical actions and words = true nature of God = Love

 

From this equation you may imply:

 

Honesty = Love

all your thoughts = Love

all your emotions = Love

all of your physical actions and words = Love

all of your physical actions and words = the true nature of God

A honest person lives his mind and minds his life

A honest person always has God in his mind

- whatever he does, feels or thinks