With these qualities, they could be victorious....

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Dear All,

 

Regardless of what our work may be, and the result of that, it is always

heartening to know that what is required of the individual person by the Divine,

is to do the best that they can - and the rest they have to leave up to God.

Here is an excerpt from http://www.adishakti.org/ that tells of all the

resistance, disbelief, persecution, rejection, slander, abuse, ridicule, inner

agony and loneliness that past founders of religions endured, with their solace

being their single-minded devotion to God.

 

Please enjoy their fortitude!

 

regards to all,

 

violet

 

 

" The founders of religion inevitably met resistance, disbelief, and persecution

when they attempted to spread their message. Thus Moses endured the murmurings

of his people, Muhammad was branded a charlatan and pursued by his fellow

tribesmen of the Quraysh, and Jesus was rejected and slandered by many of the

Jews of his day and eventually was executed as an insurrectionist. Confucius was

unsuccessful in his efforts to get his teachings accepted by the leaders of his

day, and Lao Tzu describes his plight as that of a social outcast. Mahavira and

even Buddha, whose ministry is glorified by later traditions, were abused and

ridiculed as they wandered from town to town. Yet even more profound than the

pains and travails which they suffered in the body was the inner agony of

loneliness as these founders wandered about, with no one to understand them or

sympathize with their minds. Their only solace was their single-minded devotion

to God or their conviction about the truth which they, alone in the world, could

understand ...

 

All these great founders of religion had courage, steadfastness of purpose, and

fidelity to the goal which they sought, the cause which they championed, the

reality which they realized, and the revelation with which they had been

entrusted. With these qualities they could be victorious. " (World Scripture,

International Religious Foundation, Paragon House Publishing, 1995 p. 427-436)

 

http://www.adishakti.org/