Guest guest Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Shree Hari Ram Ram In today's sadhak posting, " Discharge of Duty leads to Salvation and Freedom from Suffering, " in the last paragraph Swamiji has stated - " Here a doubt may arise that we do good to others but others instead of doing good to us, do evil to us, then how will 'parasparam bhavayantah'(serve each other selflessly through one's duty) be applicable? The answer is that if we do good to others, others will not be able to do evil to us. They will have no power to do evil to us. Even if they do evil to us, they will repent for it afterwards and will lament for it. If they do evil to us; there will be many others to do good to us and to sympathize with us. In fact there is no ordinance anywhere to do evil to anyone. A man because of aversion (dislikes, hate) does evil to others. " Parasparam bhavayantah " (serve each other selflessly through one's duty). This is humanity and it applies to mankind. Due to the lack of " Parasparam bhavayantah " (selfless spirit through one's duties), man is suffering. " From " The Bhagavad Gita - Sadhak Sanjivani " in English pg 288-289 and in Hindi page 165 by Swami Ramsukhdasji To read the entire message please visit: sadhaka/message/2149 PLEASE KINDLY PRESENT YOUR THOUGHTS, questions, doubts, affirmations with reference to this message. Gita Talk Moderator Ram Ram ------------------------------- NEW POSTING -Shree Hari- The last paragraph touches on something that is often missed by modern society. If someone 'throws dirty water in ones face', in return for ones kindness and compassion, in truth it is they who suffer. When I observe such people, I feel compassion, all that spiteful energy gives them a painful and wretched life, their world is different from mine , their world is filled with idiots, and nasty people, mine is filled with wise and beautiful people. As always I enjoy the posts. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: 1. Purpose of the group is to help Sadhakas clarify their doubts related to Gitaji shlokas. Therefore, responses which further clarify the understanding of Gitaji, will only be posted. 2. Wherever possible, please quote Gitaji or other scriptures to substantiate your response. 3. Kindly limit personal feelings, opinions, beliefs etc. to the extent that they further help in understanding the Gita shlokas 4. Please be as concise and to the point as possible, respecting sadhaka's time. 5. Kindly focus your writing to the subject at hand only. 6. Please do not include links to the other sites or other organizations. 7. Kindly do not include your personal information such as phone number, address etc. 8. Please do not address the response to a particular individual since the message is going to the entire group. 9. Due to the large readership, all responses may not be posted. 10. Moderator at his discretion, may modify the posting, if content is unclear or not appropriate for distribution to the group. 11. Please respond taking into consideration the novices, youth, westerners, non-sectarian audience. Kindly limit the use to Sanskrit words only, rather provide the English word with Sanskrit bracketed wherever possible. MODERATOR Ram Ram ------------------------ Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Shree Hari Ram Ram In today's sadhak posting, " Discharge of Duty leads to Salvation and Freedom from Suffering, " in the last paragraph Swamiji has stated - " Here a doubt may arise that we do good to others but others instead of doing good to us, do evil to us, then how will 'parasparam bhavayantah'(serve each other selflessly through one's duty) be applicable? The answer is that if we do good to others, others will not be able to do evil to us. They will have no power to do evil to us. Even if they do evil to us, they will repent for it afterwards and will lament for it. If they do evil to us; there will be many others to do good to us and to sympathize with us. In fact there is no ordinance anywhere to do evil to anyone. A man because of aversion (dislikes, hate) does evil to others. " Parasparam bhavayantah " (serve each other selflessly through one's duty). This is humanity and it applies to mankind. Due to the lack of " Parasparam bhavayantah " (selfless spirit through one's duties), man is suffering. " From " The Bhagavad Gita - Sadhak Sanjivani " in English pg 288-289 and in Hindi page 165 by Swami Ramsukhdasji To read the entire message please visit: sadhaka/message/2149 PLEASE KINDLY PRESENT YOUR THOUGHTS, questions, doubts, affirmations with reference to this message. Gita Talk Moderator Ram Ram ------------------------------- NEW POSTING Indeed, as Mike would often say, Swamiji had capacity " to look into the souls " of us. Now a statement like this can only touch your soul. Why this statement only? - I have found so many such statements holding true in actual life and getting manifested before you EXACTLY when you need or rather when Paramatma felt you needed ! A dozen at least of such laws and principles, diverse/ touching your life in different ways , which I can list! Swamiji was indeed Crown Jewel of your " Beloved " . This statement of Swamiji (Taat Shree) has many facets- 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. I don't know how it happens. May be " conscience " has something to do with it. ( What according to you can be the reason Dear Sadhaks? Brother Mike?) But I know most certainly that it never fails to happen. It is my direct personal experience, not with one person but at least with dozen people who in my bad (?) phase , in different ways, at different times, under different pretexts, giving different reasons, did evil to me. ( O God ! In bad times even your cloths become your enemies). Another reason I can think of is again Swamiji's principle only - " If you misutilise any thing, you lose that thing. " He would often say if an Employer deals badly with good employee, next time he WILL NOT get good employee. Why? How? I don't know. But I know it is true. Another reason I now think is that God wanted me to realise the truth. He washes our eyes with tears till they are clean enough to behold the reality. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right. What perplexes me is the timing.(May be because one can at least tend to wait, what else aggrieved can do. But this " wait " is not good, experience has taught me that) Is there any thing which governs the timing? I don't know. But my personal experience teaches me- it is faster if you forgive and stop considering him to be evil. On this I have no doubt. If you keep your wounds green and unhealed- the evil doer will not, AT LEAST to you, " appear " to be repenting. An honest remark by me based on personal experience. The moment you forgive and forget, suddenly and unexpectedly you hear the news of his sufferring. Any comments Mike about your experience or my experience? Fellow Sadhaks? This is my personal experience. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you No doubt about that ! Timing ? Yes ! But I feel for the aggrieved it doesn't matter. He is too busy fighting. He loses the sense of timing. I wonder if he believes at that point that he is into bad times. I feel only today that I was unto terrible waters at that time. I did not feel so then. I don't know why. Any comments Mike? Dear fellow sadhaks? 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I can give many examples from my personal experience in life that it happened. Strangers help. Those who you in the past considered as bad or enemies help. Nature helps. Circumstances help. The most weak otherwise, they help. Help definitely comes without even soliciting and it comes in abundance. No doubt on that. Only thing which aggrieved should conquer and that takes time ( again my personal experience only) is to forget and forgive the evil doers. Baba! It is rather very very difficult. If one prays, one should always pray to be able to forgive. I don't know why it is difficult. May be ego has something to do with it. What do you say sadhaks ? Is it difficult? Why it is difficult ? Today it is not so for me. But in the past, it was terribly difficult. Most of the mental agonies which I suffered were in fact due to that only and not due to evil done actually to me by evil doer or because of the results of that evilness. And then comes the " blaming " . Who do you blame? That also is a very painful phase. I feel today, may be in retrospect, that in blaming you always incur a sin. Blame is sin in itself. Says Taat Shree- You have not forgiven, if you become happy, even subtly and internally, when you hear the news of suffering of evil doer !! Acid Test !!! Some of such tests which He prescribed , they kill your ego decisively. They are simple but absolutely difficult. They are difficult but in fact very very simple. Forgive and forget !! Another principle which I practiced, based on Great Swamiji, was to " do good " , if opportunity arises, to the very evil doer.( God gives you such opportunities, quite often. Another personal experience) . Great results come of that Karma. Believe me on that. It helps you in forgiving and forgetting. I remember I did good but inside my heart I thought that as revenge while doing. But later on I forgot. I forgot without even realising. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B ------------------------------- Namaskar, We should not do good thinking/expecting others to to do good to us. If we do good without any expectations, it will have effect on others, including the evil nature people, in the long run. With respects Sunil K. Thusu ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING -Shree Hari- The last paragraph touches on something that is often missed by modern society. If someone 'throws dirty water in ones face', in return for ones kindness and compassion, in truth it is they who suffer. When I observe such people, I feel compassion, all that spiteful energy gives them a painful and wretched life, their world is different from mine , their world is filled with idiots, and nasty people, mine is filled with wise and beautiful people. As always I enjoy the posts. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: 1. Purpose of the group is to help Sadhakas clarify their doubts related to Gitaji shlokas. Therefore, responses which further clarify the understanding of Gitaji, will only be posted. 2. Wherever possible, please quote Gitaji or other scriptures to substantiate your response. 3. Kindly limit personal feelings, opinions, beliefs etc. to the extent that they further help in understanding the Gita shlokas 4. Please be as concise and to the point as possible, respecting sadhaka's time. 5. Kindly focus your writing to the subject at hand only. 6. Please do not include links to the other sites or other organizations. 7. Kindly do not include your personal information such as phone number, address etc. 8. Please do not address the response to a particular individual since the message is going to the entire group. 9. Due to the large readership, all responses may not be posted. 10. Moderator at his discretion, may modify the posting, if content is unclear or not appropriate for distribution to the group. 11. Please respond taking into consideration the novices, youth, westerners, non-sectarian audience. Kindly limit the use to Sanskrit words only, rather provide the English word with Sanskrit bracketed wherever possible. MODERATOR Ram Ram ------------------------ Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2008 Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 Shree Hari Ram Ram In today's sadhak posting, " Discharge of Duty leads to Salvation and Freedom from Suffering, " in the last paragraph Swamiji has stated - " Here a doubt may arise that we do good to others but others instead of doing good to us, do evil to us, then how will 'parasparam bhavayantah'(serve each other selflessly through one's duty) be applicable? The answer is that if we do good to others, others will not be able to do evil to us. They will have no power to do evil to us. Even if they do evil to us, they will repent for it afterwards and will lament for it. If they do evil to us; there will be many others to do good to us and to sympathize with us. In fact there is no ordinance anywhere to do evil to anyone. A man because of aversion (dislikes, hate) does evil to others. " Parasparam bhavayantah " (serve each other selflessly through one's duty). This is humanity and it applies to mankind. Due to the lack of " Parasparam bhavayantah " (selfless spirit through one's duties), man is suffering. " From " The Bhagavad Gita - Sadhak Sanjivani " in English pg 288-289 and in Hindi page 165 by Swami Ramsukhdasji To read the entire message please visit: sadhaka/message/2149 PLEASE KINDLY PRESENT YOUR THOUGHTS, questions, doubts, affirmations with reference to this message. Gita Talk Moderator Ram Ram ------------------------------- NEW POSTING Dear Sadaks, In the first instance, Do good to others ONLY when repeadly asked for. vasita Rishi in Dasaratha kingdom is Guru. Dasaratha attempted many ways to have child. Everything failed. He asked Guru what can he do? Guru said Do Puthra Kamesti Yog and you will have children definetely. Dasaratha said, " Why have you not told me earlier Guru? " . Guru said you have not asked me till now. Only ask then Do good. Mother Drowpathi cried for Sri Krishna` s help while being disrobed, Bagavan came to rescue. Secondly when evil is returned for good just ignore as the Pala of action is not your. It is Sri Krishna` s. Also when one can make differance of Pala as Good or evil, he is still in ignorance. Thirdly never ever think that for evil done in return for good has to be repented by the evil doer. Vasudeva Sarvam Mayam. The doer and the receipent are one and the same. By thinking the evil doer will repent one day or other, you are showing supramacy over the evil doer and your Chita (Buddhi) becomes Ashudh (poluted) Do good at mind level or physically only when asked for. Sometimes good done turns to be harmful to the other. Besides where comes the question of doership. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan -------------------------------- Respected Vyas Ji, I fully agree and believe with all the four points given by you i.e. 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I have always believed this world works on the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction i.e. whatever we do comes back to us sometime , somewhere , somehow. But Why then the evil is increasing and goodness is decreasing in this world. We find people instead of being selfless are becoming selfish by each passing generations, moral values are going down, educated people (like Mr. Sarphod ) are questioning the existence of GOD , all around us we find more evil than goodness (Mr Sarphod, i am not referring to you as evil but people in general including myself) ) . Anger, jealousy, greed these negative feelings are more prominent in people these days (I don't categorize people as good or bad , I believe nobody in today's time including myself is 100 % GOOD OR 100% BAD )but the negative traits are increasing by the day. How can we then say that evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil. Could it be because when our evil deeds come back to us we are not able to relate them with our wrong doings done earlier and instead name them as BAD KISMET . Vandana -------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Indeed, as Mike would often say, Swamiji had capacity " to look into the souls " of us. Now a statement like this can only touch your soul. Why this statement only? - I have found so many such statements holding true in actual life and getting manifested before you EXACTLY when you need or rather when Paramatma felt you needed ! A dozen at least of such laws and principles, diverse/ touching your life in different ways , which I can list! Swamiji was indeed Crown Jewel of your " Beloved " . This statement of Swamiji (Taat Shree) has many facets- 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. I don't know how it happens. May be " conscience " has something to do with it. ( What according to you can be the reason Dear Sadhaks? Brother Mike?) But I know most certainly that it never fails to happen. It is my direct personal experience, not with one person but at least with dozen people who in my bad (?) phase , in different ways, at different times, under different pretexts, giving different reasons, did evil to me. ( O God ! In bad times even your cloths become your enemies). Another reason I can think of is again Swamiji's principle only - " If you misutilise any thing, you lose that thing. " He would often say if an Employer deals badly with good employee, next time he WILL NOT get good employee. Why? How? I don't know. But I know it is true. Another reason I now think is that God wanted me to realise the truth. He washes our eyes with tears till they are clean enough to behold the reality. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right. What perplexes me is the timing.(May be because one can at least tend to wait, what else aggrieved can do. But this " wait " is not good, experience has taught me that) Is there any thing which governs the timing? I don't know. But my personal experience teaches me- it is faster if you forgive and stop considering him to be evil. On this I have no doubt. If you keep your wounds green and unhealed- the evil doer will not, AT LEAST to you, " appear " to be repenting. An honest remark by me based on personal experience. The moment you forgive and forget, suddenly and unexpectedly you hear the news of his sufferring. Any comments Mike about your experience or my experience? Fellow Sadhaks? This is my personal experience. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you No doubt about that ! Timing ? Yes ! But I feel for the aggrieved it doesn't matter. He is too busy fighting. He loses the sense of timing. I wonder if he believes at that point that he is into bad times. I feel only today that I was unto terrible waters at that time. I did not feel so then. I don't know why. Any comments Mike? Dear fellow sadhaks? 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I can give many examples from my personal experience in life that it happened. Strangers help. Those who you in the past considered as bad or enemies help. Nature helps. Circumstances help. The most weak otherwise, they help. Help definitely comes without even soliciting and it comes in abundance. No doubt on that. Only thing which aggrieved should conquer and that takes time ( again my personal experience only) is to forget and forgive the evil doers. Baba! It is rather very very difficult. If one prays, one should always pray to be able to forgive. I don't know why it is difficult. May be ego has something to do with it. What do you say sadhaks ? Is it difficult? Why it is difficult ? Today it is not so for me. But in the past, it was terribly difficult. Most of the mental agonies which I suffered were in fact due to that only and not due to evil done actually to me by evil doer or because of the results of that evilness. And then comes the " blaming " . Who do you blame? That also is a very painful phase. I feel today, may be in retrospect, that in blaming you always incur a sin. Blame is sin in itself. Says Taat Shree- You have not forgiven, if you become happy, even subtly and internally, when you hear the news of suffering of evil doer !! Acid Test !!! Some of such tests which He prescribed , they kill your ego decisively. They are simple but absolutely difficult. They are difficult but in fact very very simple. Forgive and forget !! Another principle which I practiced, based on Great Swamiji, was to " do good " , if opportunity arises, to the very evil doer.( God gives you such opportunities, quite often. Another personal experience) . Great results come of that Karma. Believe me on that. It helps you in forgiving and forgetting. I remember I did good but inside my heart I thought that as revenge while doing. But later on I forgot. I forgot without even realising. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B ------------------------------- Namaskar, We should not do good thinking/expecting others to to do good to us. If we do good without any expectations, it will have effect on others, including the evil nature people, in the long run. With respects Sunil K. Thusu ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING -Shree Hari- The last paragraph touches on something that is often missed by modern society. If someone 'throws dirty water in ones face', in return for ones kindness and compassion, in truth it is they who suffer. When I observe such people, I feel compassion, all that spiteful energy gives them a painful and wretched life, their world is different from mine , their world is filled with idiots, and nasty people, mine is filled with wise and beautiful people. As always I enjoy the posts. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: 1. Purpose of the group is to help Sadhakas clarify their doubts related to Gitaji shlokas. Therefore, responses which further clarify the understanding of Gitaji, will only be posted. 2. Wherever possible, please quote Gitaji or other scriptures to substantiate your response. 3. Kindly limit personal feelings, opinions, beliefs etc. to the extent that they further help in understanding the Gita shlokas 4. Please be as concise and to the point as possible, respecting sadhaka's time. 5. Kindly focus your writing to the subject at hand only. 6. Please do not include links to the other sites or other organizations. 7. Kindly do not include your personal information such as phone number, address etc. 8. Please do not address the response to a particular individual since the message is going to the entire group. 9. Due to the large readership, all responses may not be posted. 10. Moderator at his discretion, may modify the posting, if content is unclear or not appropriate for distribution to the group. 11. Please respond taking into consideration the novices, youth, westerners, non-sectarian audience. Kindly limit the use to Sanskrit words only, rather provide the English word with Sanskrit bracketed wherever possible. MODERATOR Ram Ram ------------------------ Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 Shree Hari Ram Ram In today's sadhak posting, " Discharge of Duty leads to Salvation and Freedom from Suffering, " in the last paragraph Swamiji has stated - " Here a doubt may arise that we do good to others but others instead of doing good to us, do evil to us, then how will 'parasparam bhavayantah'(serve each other selflessly through one's duty) be applicable? The answer is that if we do good to others, others will not be able to do evil to us. They will have no power to do evil to us. Even if they do evil to us, they will repent for it afterwards and will lament for it. If they do evil to us; there will be many others to do good to us and to sympathize with us. In fact there is no ordinance anywhere to do evil to anyone. A man because of aversion (dislikes, hate) does evil to others. " Parasparam bhavayantah " (serve each other selflessly through one's duty). This is humanity and it applies to mankind. Due to the lack of " Parasparam bhavayantah " (selfless spirit through one's duties), man is suffering. " From " The Bhagavad Gita - Sadhak Sanjivani " in English pg 288-289 and in Hindi page 165 by Swami Ramsukhdasji To read the entire message please visit: sadhaka/message/2149 PLEASE KINDLY PRESENT YOUR THOUGHTS, questions, doubts, affirmations with reference to this message. Gita Talk Moderator Ram Ram ------------------------------- NEW POSTING Hari Om Vandanaji ! A good question indeed ! There are two things. One- your propensity to do evil. Two- your capacity to do evil. You may have desire to do something but you may not have capacity to do something. The evil doer " tries " / even " attempts " / " wishes/wants/desires " to do evil to you- but " can not do evil to you " . He loses his very capacity to impact you or cause results to you. Your entire narration is by and large with reference to " desire/attempt/wish/want/try " of evil doer and not his capacity to do evil or cause harm to you. The distinction between the two is of something like the distinction between karma and result and extends/tilts towards the capacity of your doing karma. But the desire to cause evil remains a separate thing. Hence increase in evil doers are reflective of desires/propensities/attempts of the evil doer and not of his capacity to do the same in effect and thus cause harm to others. Hope this is clear. Next time, I shall of course attempt to answer your questions with reference to the propensities/desires/causes in control, of the evil doer. Last para is irrelevant to the above. It is a separate matter altogether. I shall touch upon that too next time. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B -------------------------------- -Shree Hari- Before I go any further I will paste a piece from " The prophet " by Kahlil Gibran: 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know pain.' This lyrical observation by Kahlil Gibran, reflects the wisdom of Swamiji when he referred to the benefits of unfavorable circumstance. Comment 1: The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you... I believe that is correct, if one transcends the knee jerk nature, then something profound happens, but it has to be genuine, you are thus not contaminated by the evil doers poison. Look there is a day of reckoning, that comes upon a person when divine grace touches her/him, it is a blessing but is full of anguish. Even though we may be living a righteous life, what dark murky past have we lived before?... ....I remember starting to say I'm sorry over and over again, then tears then screams, then a feeling that, as it were, I wanted to turn myself inside out, (the stone had broken). Impossible to be the same again. Remember, as far as I know I have not done any real harm to anyone, BUT my soul knows otherwise. The principle of not to mis-utilise, is I think cosmic in proportion, and is highly transcendent, from the mundane to the profound. Comment 2: (As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right). It is quite evident that this is true, if one has hate burnt out of him/her then what is there to forgive, you watch in a kind of sorrow as their history turns into hell. Of course one learns from these events, filed under Wisdom. Comment 3: I am having a little trouble getting my head around that one. Apart from the fact that those who wished to harm me, in the long run did not, every thing worked out as good as it could. Comment 4: A quick and humorous obsevation. When I was in my military training many years ago, (it was brutal), there was a trainee ahead of my entry. He had a huge scare on his face, very gaunt and swarthy, looked like a Gypsy, and I used to think, " I better keep well out of of this fellas way he looks lethal " . In the fullness of time I was posted to a certain electronic servicing establishment. Yes there he was, yes he was of Romany stock. He was a gentleman, definitely helped me when I needed it, taught some Romany knowledge about wild food, he was a pleasure to work with. Behind the scenes I think Baba who loves us, his children, and by looking to Him the beloved, we will progress. Vyasji I have answered these points you put to me off the cuff. Although I sense Gitaji all around this thread. With Respect and Divine, Mike Keenor -------------------------------- Dear Sadaks, In the first instance, Do good to others ONLY when repeadly asked for. vasita Rishi in Dasaratha kingdom is Guru. Dasaratha attempted many ways to have child. Everything failed. He asked Guru what can he do? Guru said Do Puthra Kamesti Yog and you will have children definetely. Dasaratha said, " Why have you not told me earlier Guru? " . Guru said you have not asked me till now. Only ask then Do good. Mother Drowpathi cried for Sri Krishna` s help while being disrobed, Bagavan came to rescue. Secondly when evil is returned for good just ignore as the Pala of action is not your. It is Sri Krishna` s. Also when one can make differance of Pala as Good or evil, he is still in ignorance. Thirdly never ever think that for evil done in return for good has to be repented by the evil doer. Vasudeva Sarvam Mayam. The doer and the receipent are one and the same. By thinking the evil doer will repent one day or other, you are showing supramacy over the evil doer and your Chita (Buddhi) becomes Ashudh (poluted) Do good at mind level or physically only when asked for. Sometimes good done turns to be harmful to the other. Besides where comes the question of doership. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan -------------------------------- Respected Vyas Ji, I fully agree and believe with all the four points given by you i.e. 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I have always believed this world works on the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction i.e. whatever we do comes back to us sometime , somewhere , somehow. But Why then the evil is increasing and goodness is decreasing in this world. We find people instead of being selfless are becoming selfish by each passing generations, moral values are going down, educated people (like Mr. Sarphod ) are questioning the existence of GOD , all around us we find more evil than goodness (Mr Sarphod, i am not referring to you as evil but people in general including myself) ) . Anger, jealousy, greed these negative feelings are more prominent in people these days (I don't categorize people as good or bad , I believe nobody in today's time including myself is 100 % GOOD OR 100% BAD )but the negative traits are increasing by the day. How can we then say that evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil. Could it be because when our evil deeds come back to us we are not able to relate them with our wrong doings done earlier and instead name them as BAD KISMET . Vandana -------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Indeed, as Mike would often say, Swamiji had capacity " to look into the souls " of us. Now a statement like this can only touch your soul. Why this statement only? - I have found so many such statements holding true in actual life and getting manifested before you EXACTLY when you need or rather when Paramatma felt you needed ! A dozen at least of such laws and principles, diverse/ touching your life in different ways , which I can list! Swamiji was indeed Crown Jewel of your " Beloved " . This statement of Swamiji (Taat Shree) has many facets- 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. I don't know how it happens. May be " conscience " has something to do with it. ( What according to you can be the reason Dear Sadhaks? Brother Mike?) But I know most certainly that it never fails to happen. It is my direct personal experience, not with one person but at least with dozen people who in my bad (?) phase , in different ways, at different times, under different pretexts, giving different reasons, did evil to me. ( O God ! In bad times even your cloths become your enemies). Another reason I can think of is again Swamiji's principle only - " If you misutilise any thing, you lose that thing. " He would often say if an Employer deals badly with good employee, next time he WILL NOT get good employee. Why? How? I don't know. But I know it is true. Another reason I now think is that God wanted me to realise the truth. He washes our eyes with tears till they are clean enough to behold the reality. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right. What perplexes me is the timing.(May be because one can at least tend to wait, what else aggrieved can do. But this " wait " is not good, experience has taught me that) Is there any thing which governs the timing? I don't know. But my personal experience teaches me- it is faster if you forgive and stop considering him to be evil. On this I have no doubt. If you keep your wounds green and unhealed- the evil doer will not, AT LEAST to you, " appear " to be repenting. An honest remark by me based on personal experience. The moment you forgive and forget, suddenly and unexpectedly you hear the news of his sufferring. Any comments Mike about your experience or my experience? Fellow Sadhaks? This is my personal experience. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you No doubt about that ! Timing ? Yes ! But I feel for the aggrieved it doesn't matter. He is too busy fighting. He loses the sense of timing. I wonder if he believes at that point that he is into bad times. I feel only today that I was unto terrible waters at that time. I did not feel so then. I don't know why. Any comments Mike? Dear fellow sadhaks? 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I can give many examples from my personal experience in life that it happened. Strangers help. Those who you in the past considered as bad or enemies help. Nature helps. Circumstances help. The most weak otherwise, they help. Help definitely comes without even soliciting and it comes in abundance. No doubt on that. Only thing which aggrieved should conquer and that takes time ( again my personal experience only) is to forget and forgive the evil doers. Baba! It is rather very very difficult. If one prays, one should always pray to be able to forgive. I don't know why it is difficult. May be ego has something to do with it. What do you say sadhaks ? Is it difficult? Why it is difficult ? Today it is not so for me. But in the past, it was terribly difficult. Most of the mental agonies which I suffered were in fact due to that only and not due to evil done actually to me by evil doer or because of the results of that evilness. And then comes the " blaming " . Who do you blame? That also is a very painful phase. I feel today, may be in retrospect, that in blaming you always incur a sin. Blame is sin in itself. Says Taat Shree- You have not forgiven, if you become happy, even subtly and internally, when you hear the news of suffering of evil doer !! Acid Test !!! Some of such tests which He prescribed , they kill your ego decisively. They are simple but absolutely difficult. They are difficult but in fact very very simple. Forgive and forget !! Another principle which I practiced, based on Great Swamiji, was to " do good " , if opportunity arises, to the very evil doer.( God gives you such opportunities, quite often. Another personal experience) . Great results come of that Karma. Believe me on that. It helps you in forgiving and forgetting. I remember I did good but inside my heart I thought that as revenge while doing. But later on I forgot. I forgot without even realising. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B ------------------------------- Namaskar, We should not do good thinking/expecting others to to do good to us. If we do good without any expectations, it will have effect on others, including the evil nature people, in the long run. With respects Sunil K. Thusu ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING -Shree Hari- The last paragraph touches on something that is often missed by modern society. If someone 'throws dirty water in ones face', in return for ones kindness and compassion, in truth it is they who suffer. When I observe such people, I feel compassion, all that spiteful energy gives them a painful and wretched life, their world is different from mine , their world is filled with idiots, and nasty people, mine is filled with wise and beautiful people. As always I enjoy the posts. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: 1. Purpose of the group is to help Sadhakas clarify their doubts related to Gitaji shlokas. Therefore, responses which further clarify the understanding of Gitaji, will only be posted. 2. 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Guest guest Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Shree Hari Ram Ram In today's sadhak posting, " Discharge of Duty leads to Salvation and Freedom from Suffering, " in the last paragraph Swamiji has stated - " Here a doubt may arise that we do good to others but others instead of doing good to us, do evil to us, then how will 'parasparam bhavayantah'(serve each other selflessly through one's duty) be applicable? The answer is that if we do good to others, others will not be able to do evil to us. They will have no power to do evil to us. Even if they do evil to us, they will repent for it afterwards and will lament for it. If they do evil to us; there will be many others to do good to us and to sympathize with us. In fact there is no ordinance anywhere to do evil to anyone. A man because of aversion (dislikes, hate) does evil to others. " Parasparam bhavayantah " (serve each other selflessly through one's duty). This is humanity and it applies to mankind. Due to the lack of " Parasparam bhavayantah " (selfless spirit through one's duties), man is suffering. " From " The Bhagavad Gita - Sadhak Sanjivani " in English pg 288-289 and in Hindi page 165 by Swami Ramsukhdasji To read the entire message please visit: sadhaka/message/2149 PLEASE KINDLY PRESENT YOUR THOUGHTS, questions, doubts, affirmations with reference to this message. Gita Talk Moderator Ram Ram ------------------------------- NEW POSTING Dear sadak 1) The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. Reply: a) Who is your evil doer? The doer and you are one and the same as Vasudeva Sarvam. It is evil (element of bad thought) in a person. So it is not the person himself evil. Ex: A muslim was reapeatedly spitting at Sant Ekanath on Ekadasi day. Sant just ignored. The muslim got fed up as there was no reaction to his doing. He fell at Sant feet. Ekanath said to the man, " Your Kuran teaches that external (Shudhi) cleanliness and internal cleanliness both required to see God. So you were only spitting at me polluting my body each when I came back after bath. But if had I got angry on you, my internal clealiness would have gone. If my Chit becomes dirty with angry words, it is difficult to clean it (mind) " . No any action Evil retreated. b) Christ was crucified, But HE said to his father pardon the evil doer as they know not what they are doing. Here the evil brought death to Christ as it is happening these days. But such great cleaniness Christ had, HE came back with Austrial body, to prove that body and soul are differant. Here Christ Prarabdha was over on earth, so went to heavens. Action was done by Christ to impart knowledge to ignorant people who opposed him. So crucification took place. c) Adi Sankara was taken secretly by Kabali head to be beheaded. Sankara bowed down offering his head for the killing. But will of God that one of Sanakars disciple came at that time. Seeing this, the disciple got cosmic energy that he killed the Kabali by his fingers. Sankara saw this and sang Nurashima Storam, the disciple came back to normal. Sankara Prarabdha is not over, so he had to live. Thus rescued. d) Pandavas were cheated by Duryodan and Sakuni evil mind in playing gambling and sent Pandavas to forest 14 years of suffering. Why? Here Pandavas (yudistra) made of mistake of commiting one of the Pancha Maha Padakam (One of the five great sins) gambling. So there was No rescue. 2. Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. There is NO question evil doer will repent. Once evil in a person vacates, the person by himself (Athuman which was wittness) punishes the body in which Athuman exists. .. Like the person who betrayed Christ for silver coins. Like Buddha said, " Do not take abuses to be at you. Then the same abuses bounces back to the sender like a ball thrown against a wall " . In upanashids it is said, " a person doing evil to you, is doing Good to you by taking off your sins done knowingly or unknowingly " . Ex:1) In Garuda Puran-- There was woman not getting married. A sant (saint) came for Biksha saw the lady weeping and knew her problem. Sant said to the lady daily sit just outside your house with your father and talk happily, your marriage will settle soon. Lady never questioned the concept. People passing by use to pass different comments that the girl and father are behaving indecently. Those people took away the sins of that girl done in her earlier birth and she soon got married. a) A prostitute was to be stoned to death by some persons. Christ interfered and said, " Those who have not sinned can cast stones at the lady first " . Once their evil was illumined in their mind they droped the stones. So the evil is differant from evil doer. 3. Nothing. wrong will happen to you. That is NOT a guarantee. Guarantee is nothing wrong happens is to your Athuman, As Bagavan said in Geetha that Athuman is non-destructable.. We saw totally innocent Cooly at Mumbai railway station killed by terrorist. The cooly and the terrorist have no connection. People killed by carelessness by driver. Driver and people got killed have no connection. Same time they were people just came out of Taj few minutes earlier to blast, got saved. Something happening to us or not depends on our Prarabdha Karmas which is arrow out from Bow, this is said in Vivekachdani. Refer Dasaratha death with Sri Rama seperation, where Dasaratha killed a boy by mistake in woods and the boys parents cursed Dasratha death to come years later. 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. No only GOD can rescue one through others. When Jarasandh waged war with Sri Krishna, people said that it is not their look out, as it is purely enmity between Sri Krishana and Jarasand. How much Sri Krishna had done for those people? Christ was crucified, but the entire crowd stayed behind fearing death. How much Christ done for them? Mahathuma Gandhi done untold good to our nation. Are we celebrating his birthday as that of today`s ministers? We do our Karma as Sarvam Sri Krishna Arpanam and never expect someone to save us. Humble request, pardon me where ever I am wrong. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan ----------------------- -Shree Hari- Brother Vyas, I will continue my response to your post, as you invited comment from me. Comment 4:(continued) Blame, some people seem to waste enormous emotional energy trying to apportion blame, it appears as a vane attempt to divert any personal involvement in an unfavorable event. What I see of the constant blamers, is, they do incur sin for sure, always trying to point score, they seem to be horrible people who no one likes. I am in the position now, that someone who did terrible things to me, told terrible lies, is now almost completely in our care, (my wife and I). A very nice Sikh lady we know ask how this person was doing quite some time back, we told her, I then looked at this lady, shook my head and said, " There's an awful lot of Karma here " . I could see the unfolding, and dear Sadhaks, I got no pleasure from this unfolding. What I feel is a sadness, for what could have been. Vyasji from your post, and others of yours, it is clear that you have gone through a transition of the spirit, as I have, I think it is important to mention these things when appropriate, it will give validation and support to others. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- Dear Sadaks, Ref: Vandana. Evil will grow day by day more folds. It is bound to happen as Bagavan said about Kaliyug. Just concentrate on Bagavan do not see world. Do not think you want to do good until it is asked for, and forget the action done immediately and keep your concentration on God. The more you see evil the more the mind will sympathize and concentration lost. In tretha Yug Mother Seethas torchered by Ravana, Sri Krishna mother Devi and Vasu dev was torchered. Now it is in multifold. Your aim is to get out from here and not see what is happening. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Hari Om Vandanaji ! A good question indeed ! There are two things. One- your propensity to do evil. Two- your capacity to do evil. You may have desire to do something but you may not have capacity to do something. The evil doer " tries " / even " attempts " / " wishes/wants/desires " to do evil to you- but " can not do evil to you " . He loses his very capacity to impact you or cause results to you. Your entire narration is by and large with reference to " desire/attempt/wish/want/try " of evil doer and not his capacity to do evil or cause harm to you. The distinction between the two is of something like the distinction between karma and result and extends/tilts towards the capacity of your doing karma. But the desire to cause evil remains a separate thing. Hence increase in evil doers are reflective of desires/propensities/attempts of the evil doer and not of his capacity to do the same in effect and thus cause harm to others. Hope this is clear. Next time, I shall of course attempt to answer your questions with reference to the propensities/desires/causes in control, of the evil doer. Last para is irrelevant to the above. It is a separate matter altogether. I shall touch upon that too next time. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B -------------------------------- -Shree Hari- Before I go any further I will paste a piece from " The prophet " by Kahlil Gibran: 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know pain.' This lyrical observation by Kahlil Gibran, reflects the wisdom of Swamiji when he referred to the benefits of unfavorable circumstance. Comment 1: The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you... I believe that is correct, if one transcends the knee jerk nature, then something profound happens, but it has to be genuine, you are thus not contaminated by the evil doers poison. Look there is a day of reckoning, that comes upon a person when divine grace touches her/him, it is a blessing but is full of anguish. Even though we may be living a righteous life, what dark murky past have we lived before?... ....I remember starting to say I'm sorry over and over again, then tears then screams, then a feeling that, as it were, I wanted to turn myself inside out, (the stone had broken). Impossible to be the same again. Remember, as far as I know I have not done any real harm to anyone, BUT my soul knows otherwise. The principle of not to mis-utilise, is I think cosmic in proportion, and is highly transcendent, from the mundane to the profound. Comment 2: (As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right). It is quite evident that this is true, if one has hate burnt out of him/her then what is there to forgive, you watch in a kind of sorrow as their history turns into hell. Of course one learns from these events, filed under Wisdom. Comment 3: I am having a little trouble getting my head around that one. Apart from the fact that those who wished to harm me, in the long run did not, every thing worked out as good as it could. Comment 4: A quick and humorous obsevation. When I was in my military training many years ago, (it was brutal), there was a trainee ahead of my entry. He had a huge scare on his face, very gaunt and swarthy, looked like a Gypsy, and I used to think, " I better keep well out of of this fellas way he looks lethal " . In the fullness of time I was posted to a certain electronic servicing establishment. Yes there he was, yes he was of Romany stock. He was a gentleman, definitely helped me when I needed it, taught some Romany knowledge about wild food, he was a pleasure to work with. Behind the scenes I think Baba who loves us, his children, and by looking to Him the beloved, we will progress. Vyasji I have answered these points you put to me off the cuff. Although I sense Gitaji all around this thread. With Respect and Divine, Mike Keenor -------------------------------- Dear Sadaks, In the first instance, Do good to others ONLY when repeadly asked for. vasita Rishi in Dasaratha kingdom is Guru. Dasaratha attempted many ways to have child. Everything failed. He asked Guru what can he do? Guru said Do Puthra Kamesti Yog and you will have children definetely. Dasaratha said, " Why have you not told me earlier Guru? " . Guru said you have not asked me till now. Only ask then Do good. Mother Drowpathi cried for Sri Krishna` s help while being disrobed, Bagavan came to rescue. Secondly when evil is returned for good just ignore as the Pala of action is not your. It is Sri Krishna` s. Also when one can make differance of Pala as Good or evil, he is still in ignorance. Thirdly never ever think that for evil done in return for good has to be repented by the evil doer. Vasudeva Sarvam Mayam. The doer and the receipent are one and the same. By thinking the evil doer will repent one day or other, you are showing supramacy over the evil doer and your Chita (Buddhi) becomes Ashudh (poluted) Do good at mind level or physically only when asked for. Sometimes good done turns to be harmful to the other. Besides where comes the question of doership. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan -------------------------------- Respected Vyas Ji, I fully agree and believe with all the four points given by you i.e. 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I have always believed this world works on the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction i.e. whatever we do comes back to us sometime , somewhere , somehow. But Why then the evil is increasing and goodness is decreasing in this world. We find people instead of being selfless are becoming selfish by each passing generations, moral values are going down, educated people (like Mr. Sarphod ) are questioning the existence of GOD , all around us we find more evil than goodness (Mr Sarphod, i am not referring to you as evil but people in general including myself) ) . Anger, jealousy, greed these negative feelings are more prominent in people these days (I don't categorize people as good or bad , I believe nobody in today's time including myself is 100 % GOOD OR 100% BAD )but the negative traits are increasing by the day. How can we then say that evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil. Could it be because when our evil deeds come back to us we are not able to relate them with our wrong doings done earlier and instead name them as BAD KISMET . Vandana -------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Indeed, as Mike would often say, Swamiji had capacity " to look into the souls " of us. Now a statement like this can only touch your soul. Why this statement only? - I have found so many such statements holding true in actual life and getting manifested before you EXACTLY when you need or rather when Paramatma felt you needed ! A dozen at least of such laws and principles, diverse/ touching your life in different ways , which I can list! Swamiji was indeed Crown Jewel of your " Beloved " . This statement of Swamiji (Taat Shree) has many facets- 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. I don't know how it happens. May be " conscience " has something to do with it. ( What according to you can be the reason Dear Sadhaks? Brother Mike?) But I know most certainly that it never fails to happen. It is my direct personal experience, not with one person but at least with dozen people who in my bad (?) phase , in different ways, at different times, under different pretexts, giving different reasons, did evil to me. ( O God ! In bad times even your cloths become your enemies). Another reason I can think of is again Swamiji's principle only - " If you misutilise any thing, you lose that thing. " He would often say if an Employer deals badly with good employee, next time he WILL NOT get good employee. Why? How? I don't know. But I know it is true. Another reason I now think is that God wanted me to realise the truth. He washes our eyes with tears till they are clean enough to behold the reality. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right. What perplexes me is the timing.(May be because one can at least tend to wait, what else aggrieved can do. But this " wait " is not good, experience has taught me that) Is there any thing which governs the timing? I don't know. But my personal experience teaches me- it is faster if you forgive and stop considering him to be evil. On this I have no doubt. If you keep your wounds green and unhealed- the evil doer will not, AT LEAST to you, " appear " to be repenting. An honest remark by me based on personal experience. The moment you forgive and forget, suddenly and unexpectedly you hear the news of his sufferring. Any comments Mike about your experience or my experience? Fellow Sadhaks? This is my personal experience. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you No doubt about that ! Timing ? Yes ! But I feel for the aggrieved it doesn't matter. He is too busy fighting. He loses the sense of timing. I wonder if he believes at that point that he is into bad times. I feel only today that I was unto terrible waters at that time. I did not feel so then. I don't know why. Any comments Mike? Dear fellow sadhaks? 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I can give many examples from my personal experience in life that it happened. Strangers help. Those who you in the past considered as bad or enemies help. Nature helps. Circumstances help. The most weak otherwise, they help. Help definitely comes without even soliciting and it comes in abundance. No doubt on that. Only thing which aggrieved should conquer and that takes time ( again my personal experience only) is to forget and forgive the evil doers. Baba! It is rather very very difficult. If one prays, one should always pray to be able to forgive. I don't know why it is difficult. May be ego has something to do with it. What do you say sadhaks ? Is it difficult? Why it is difficult ? Today it is not so for me. But in the past, it was terribly difficult. Most of the mental agonies which I suffered were in fact due to that only and not due to evil done actually to me by evil doer or because of the results of that evilness. And then comes the " blaming " . Who do you blame? That also is a very painful phase. I feel today, may be in retrospect, that in blaming you always incur a sin. Blame is sin in itself. Says Taat Shree- You have not forgiven, if you become happy, even subtly and internally, when you hear the news of suffering of evil doer !! Acid Test !!! Some of such tests which He prescribed , they kill your ego decisively. They are simple but absolutely difficult. They are difficult but in fact very very simple. Forgive and forget !! Another principle which I practiced, based on Great Swamiji, was to " do good " , if opportunity arises, to the very evil doer.( God gives you such opportunities, quite often. Another personal experience) . Great results come of that Karma. Believe me on that. It helps you in forgiving and forgetting. I remember I did good but inside my heart I thought that as revenge while doing. But later on I forgot. I forgot without even realising. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B ------------------------------- Namaskar, We should not do good thinking/expecting others to to do good to us. If we do good without any expectations, it will have effect on others, including the evil nature people, in the long run. With respects Sunil K. Thusu ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING -Shree Hari- The last paragraph touches on something that is often missed by modern society. If someone 'throws dirty water in ones face', in return for ones kindness and compassion, in truth it is they who suffer. When I observe such people, I feel compassion, all that spiteful energy gives them a painful and wretched life, their world is different from mine , their world is filled with idiots, and nasty people, mine is filled with wise and beautiful people. As always I enjoy the posts. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: 1. Purpose of the group is to help Sadhakas clarify their doubts related to Gitaji shlokas. Therefore, responses which further clarify the understanding of Gitaji, will only be posted. 2. 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Guest guest Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Shree Hari Ram Ram In today's sadhak posting, " Discharge of Duty leads to Salvation and Freedom from Suffering, " in the last paragraph Swamiji has stated - " Here a doubt may arise that we do good to others but others instead of doing good to us, do evil to us, then how will 'parasparam bhavayantah'(serve each other selflessly through one's duty) be applicable? The answer is that if we do good to others, others will not be able to do evil to us. They will have no power to do evil to us. Even if they do evil to us, they will repent for it afterwards and will lament for it. If they do evil to us; there will be many others to do good to us and to sympathize with us. In fact there is no ordinance anywhere to do evil to anyone. A man because of aversion (dislikes, hate) does evil to others. " Parasparam bhavayantah " (serve each other selflessly through one's duty). This is humanity and it applies to mankind. Due to the lack of " Parasparam bhavayantah " (selfless spirit through one's duties), man is suffering. " From " The Bhagavad Gita - Sadhak Sanjivani " in English pg 288-289 and in Hindi page 165 by Swami Ramsukhdasji To read the entire message please visit: sadhaka/message/2149 PLEASE KINDLY PRESENT YOUR THOUGHTS, questions, doubts, affirmations with reference to this message. Gita Talk Moderator Ram Ram ------------------------------- NEW POSTING Hare Krishna Yes Mikeji, it certainly gives validation and support to me. Yours and Vyasji's posts will help me when I go through the phase which you referred to as 'transition of spirit'. Thank you very much.... Hare Krishna Varun P. Paprunia -------------------------------- Dear Sadhaks, Namaste! Let us look at this in another way " discharge of duty leads to salvation and freedom from suffering " . Suppose in a small village total population of 100 people are living. They went to listen to the discourse given by a saint travelling through the village. Saint mentioned " discharge your duty to your family and fellow beings, and you all will be free from suffering. Now if all of them do it, then there is no suffering people, right? In duty, one of the most important elements is to do wothout being a doer of acts, but with everything one has, and then accept the result as prasadam. Such a one is already free! Sounds hypothetical? sure is in today's world. But the intention of Swamiji is conveyed in this example as is always the intention when any Saint, any time, any where, has spoken. It is for everyone to follow. If someone does evil acts, majority of people will come to rescue, and most of the times apparant victoms get saved. People rush to help others in man made disasters or natural disasters. Aren't they discharging duties even when they are not realized? There is never an evil person, of course there are acts that emerge from ignorance. When I think I am separate from the rest of the mankind, then only there is a possibility for conflict and therefore evil actions, for likes and dislikes, attachments and aversions, and others such pairs of imagined opposites. If I am Whole and everyone and everything(Vasudevam Sarvam), there is no possibility of relating to another and therefore no evility either! All happenings are natural done by Me and for Me and to Me! J. Krishnamurti used to say " You are the World and World is you " . Please realize the Truth of this, it is not hypothetical! By and large there are many many good people around even these days that the world is functioning as it is and World Consciousness is evolving to higher and higher level. What worst can happen to Saints like Jesus, say, other than sacrificing a body which he knew he never was? The body-mind is manifest instrument(like PBS) of God announcing messages like Swamiji's to lead us to the shores of ultimate fulfilment! Namaskar..........Pratap Bhatt -------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Dear sadak 1) The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. Reply: a) Who is your evil doer? The doer and you are one and the same as Vasudeva Sarvam. It is evil (element of bad thought) in a person. So it is not the person himself evil. Ex: A muslim was reapeatedly spitting at Sant Ekanath on Ekadasi day. Sant just ignored. The muslim got fed up as there was no reaction to his doing. He fell at Sant feet. Ekanath said to the man, " Your Kuran teaches that external (Shudhi) cleanliness and internal cleanliness both required to see God. So you were only spitting at me polluting my body each when I came back after bath. But if had I got angry on you, my internal clealiness would have gone. If my Chit becomes dirty with angry words, it is difficult to clean it (mind) " . No any action Evil retreated. b) Christ was crucified, But HE said to his father pardon the evil doer as they know not what they are doing. Here the evil brought death to Christ as it is happening these days. But such great cleaniness Christ had, HE came back with Austrial body, to prove that body and soul are differant. Here Christ Prarabdha was over on earth, so went to heavens. Action was done by Christ to impart knowledge to ignorant people who opposed him. So crucification took place. c) Adi Sankara was taken secretly by Kabali head to be beheaded. Sankara bowed down offering his head for the killing. But will of God that one of Sanakars disciple came at that time. Seeing this, the disciple got cosmic energy that he killed the Kabali by his fingers. Sankara saw this and sang Nurashima Storam, the disciple came back to normal. Sankara Prarabdha is not over, so he had to live. Thus rescued. d) Pandavas were cheated by Duryodan and Sakuni evil mind in playing gambling and sent Pandavas to forest 14 years of suffering. Why? Here Pandavas (yudistra) made of mistake of commiting one of the Pancha Maha Padakam (One of the five great sins) gambling. So there was No rescue. 2. Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. There is NO question evil doer will repent. Once evil in a person vacates, the person by himself (Athuman which was wittness) punishes the body in which Athuman exists. .. Like the person who betrayed Christ for silver coins. Like Buddha said, " Do not take abuses to be at you. Then the same abuses bounces back to the sender like a ball thrown against a wall " . In upanashids it is said, " a person doing evil to you, is doing Good to you by taking off your sins done knowingly or unknowingly " . Ex:1) In Garuda Puran-- There was woman not getting married. A sant (saint) came for Biksha saw the lady weeping and knew her problem. Sant said to the lady daily sit just outside your house with your father and talk happily, your marriage will settle soon. Lady never questioned the concept. People passing by use to pass different comments that the girl and father are behaving indecently. Those people took away the sins of that girl done in her earlier birth and she soon got married. a) A prostitute was to be stoned to death by some persons. Christ interfered and said, " Those who have not sinned can cast stones at the lady first " . Once their evil was illumined in their mind they droped the stones. So the evil is differant from evil doer. 3. Nothing. wrong will happen to you. That is NOT a guarantee. Guarantee is nothing wrong happens is to your Athuman, As Bagavan said in Geetha that Athuman is non-destructable.. We saw totally innocent Cooly at Mumbai railway station killed by terrorist. The cooly and the terrorist have no connection. People killed by carelessness by driver. Driver and people got killed have no connection. Same time they were people just came out of Taj few minutes earlier to blast, got saved. Something happening to us or not depends on our Prarabdha Karmas which is arrow out from Bow, this is said in Vivekachdani. Refer Dasaratha death with Sri Rama seperation, where Dasaratha killed a boy by mistake in woods and the boys parents cursed Dasratha death to come years later. 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. No only GOD can rescue one through others. When Jarasandh waged war with Sri Krishna, people said that it is not their look out, as it is purely enmity between Sri Krishana and Jarasand. How much Sri Krishna had done for those people? Christ was crucified, but the entire crowd stayed behind fearing death. How much Christ done for them? Mahathuma Gandhi done untold good to our nation. Are we celebrating his birthday as that of today`s ministers? We do our Karma as Sarvam Sri Krishna Arpanam and never expect someone to save us. Humble request, pardon me where ever I am wrong. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan ----------------------- -Shree Hari- Brother Vyas, I will continue my response to your post, as you invited comment from me. Comment 4:(continued) Blame, some people seem to waste enormous emotional energy trying to apportion blame, it appears as a vane attempt to divert any personal involvement in an unfavorable event. What I see of the constant blamers, is, they do incur sin for sure, always trying to point score, they seem to be horrible people who no one likes. I am in the position now, that someone who did terrible things to me, told terrible lies, is now almost completely in our care, (my wife and I). A very nice Sikh lady we know ask how this person was doing quite some time back, we told her, I then looked at this lady, shook my head and said, " There's an awful lot of Karma here " . I could see the unfolding, and dear Sadhaks, I got no pleasure from this unfolding. What I feel is a sadness, for what could have been. Vyasji from your post, and others of yours, it is clear that you have gone through a transition of the spirit, as I have, I think it is important to mention these things when appropriate, it will give validation and support to others. With Respect and Divine Love, Mike Keenor ------------------------------- Dear Sadaks, Ref: Vandana. Evil will grow day by day more folds. It is bound to happen as Bagavan said about Kaliyug. Just concentrate on Bagavan do not see world. Do not think you want to do good until it is asked for, and forget the action done immediately and keep your concentration on God. The more you see evil the more the mind will sympathize and concentration lost. In tretha Yug Mother Seethas torchered by Ravana, Sri Krishna mother Devi and Vasu dev was torchered. Now it is in multifold. Your aim is to get out from here and not see what is happening. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Hari Om Vandanaji ! A good question indeed ! There are two things. One- your propensity to do evil. Two- your capacity to do evil. You may have desire to do something but you may not have capacity to do something. The evil doer " tries " / even " attempts " / " wishes/wants/desires " to do evil to you- but " can not do evil to you " . He loses his very capacity to impact you or cause results to you. Your entire narration is by and large with reference to " desire/attempt/wish/want/try " of evil doer and not his capacity to do evil or cause harm to you. The distinction between the two is of something like the distinction between karma and result and extends/tilts towards the capacity of your doing karma. But the desire to cause evil remains a separate thing. Hence increase in evil doers are reflective of desires/propensities/attempts of the evil doer and not of his capacity to do the same in effect and thus cause harm to others. Hope this is clear. Next time, I shall of course attempt to answer your questions with reference to the propensities/desires/causes in control, of the evil doer. Last para is irrelevant to the above. It is a separate matter altogether. I shall touch upon that too next time. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B -------------------------------- -Shree Hari- Before I go any further I will paste a piece from " The prophet " by Kahlil Gibran: 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know pain.' This lyrical observation by Kahlil Gibran, reflects the wisdom of Swamiji when he referred to the benefits of unfavorable circumstance. Comment 1: The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you... I believe that is correct, if one transcends the knee jerk nature, then something profound happens, but it has to be genuine, you are thus not contaminated by the evil doers poison. Look there is a day of reckoning, that comes upon a person when divine grace touches her/him, it is a blessing but is full of anguish. Even though we may be living a righteous life, what dark murky past have we lived before?... ....I remember starting to say I'm sorry over and over again, then tears then screams, then a feeling that, as it were, I wanted to turn myself inside out, (the stone had broken). Impossible to be the same again. Remember, as far as I know I have not done any real harm to anyone, BUT my soul knows otherwise. The principle of not to mis-utilise, is I think cosmic in proportion, and is highly transcendent, from the mundane to the profound. Comment 2: (As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right). It is quite evident that this is true, if one has hate burnt out of him/her then what is there to forgive, you watch in a kind of sorrow as their history turns into hell. Of course one learns from these events, filed under Wisdom. Comment 3: I am having a little trouble getting my head around that one. Apart from the fact that those who wished to harm me, in the long run did not, every thing worked out as good as it could. Comment 4: A quick and humorous obsevation. When I was in my military training many years ago, (it was brutal), there was a trainee ahead of my entry. He had a huge scare on his face, very gaunt and swarthy, looked like a Gypsy, and I used to think, " I better keep well out of of this fellas way he looks lethal " . In the fullness of time I was posted to a certain electronic servicing establishment. Yes there he was, yes he was of Romany stock. He was a gentleman, definitely helped me when I needed it, taught some Romany knowledge about wild food, he was a pleasure to work with. Behind the scenes I think Baba who loves us, his children, and by looking to Him the beloved, we will progress. Vyasji I have answered these points you put to me off the cuff. Although I sense Gitaji all around this thread. With Respect and Divine, Mike Keenor -------------------------------- Dear Sadaks, In the first instance, Do good to others ONLY when repeadly asked for. vasita Rishi in Dasaratha kingdom is Guru. Dasaratha attempted many ways to have child. Everything failed. He asked Guru what can he do? Guru said Do Puthra Kamesti Yog and you will have children definetely. Dasaratha said, " Why have you not told me earlier Guru? " . Guru said you have not asked me till now. Only ask then Do good. Mother Drowpathi cried for Sri Krishna` s help while being disrobed, Bagavan came to rescue. Secondly when evil is returned for good just ignore as the Pala of action is not your. It is Sri Krishna` s. Also when one can make differance of Pala as Good or evil, he is still in ignorance. Thirdly never ever think that for evil done in return for good has to be repented by the evil doer. Vasudeva Sarvam Mayam. The doer and the receipent are one and the same. By thinking the evil doer will repent one day or other, you are showing supramacy over the evil doer and your Chita (Buddhi) becomes Ashudh (poluted) Do good at mind level or physically only when asked for. Sometimes good done turns to be harmful to the other. Besides where comes the question of doership. Jai Sri Krishna baiya sathyanarayan -------------------------------- Respected Vyas Ji, I fully agree and believe with all the four points given by you i.e. 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I have always believed this world works on the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction i.e. whatever we do comes back to us sometime , somewhere , somehow. But Why then the evil is increasing and goodness is decreasing in this world. We find people instead of being selfless are becoming selfish by each passing generations, moral values are going down, educated people (like Mr. Sarphod ) are questioning the existence of GOD , all around us we find more evil than goodness (Mr Sarphod, i am not referring to you as evil but people in general including myself) ) . Anger, jealousy, greed these negative feelings are more prominent in people these days (I don't categorize people as good or bad , I believe nobody in today's time including myself is 100 % GOOD OR 100% BAD )but the negative traits are increasing by the day. How can we then say that evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil. Could it be because when our evil deeds come back to us we are not able to relate them with our wrong doings done earlier and instead name them as BAD KISMET . Vandana -------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING Indeed, as Mike would often say, Swamiji had capacity " to look into the souls " of us. Now a statement like this can only touch your soul. Why this statement only? - I have found so many such statements holding true in actual life and getting manifested before you EXACTLY when you need or rather when Paramatma felt you needed ! A dozen at least of such laws and principles, diverse/ touching your life in different ways , which I can list! Swamiji was indeed Crown Jewel of your " Beloved " . This statement of Swamiji (Taat Shree) has many facets- 1 The evil doer loses his capacity itself to do evil to you. I don't know how it happens. May be " conscience " has something to do with it. ( What according to you can be the reason Dear Sadhaks? Brother Mike?) But I know most certainly that it never fails to happen. It is my direct personal experience, not with one person but at least with dozen people who in my bad (?) phase , in different ways, at different times, under different pretexts, giving different reasons, did evil to me. ( O God ! In bad times even your cloths become your enemies). Another reason I can think of is again Swamiji's principle only - " If you misutilise any thing, you lose that thing. " He would often say if an Employer deals badly with good employee, next time he WILL NOT get good employee. Why? How? I don't know. But I know it is true. Another reason I now think is that God wanted me to realise the truth. He washes our eyes with tears till they are clean enough to behold the reality. 2 Evil Doer will repent. Will cry. Will suffer. As you sow so shall you reap. History proves it right. What perplexes me is the timing.(May be because one can at least tend to wait, what else aggrieved can do. But this " wait " is not good, experience has taught me that) Is there any thing which governs the timing? I don't know. But my personal experience teaches me- it is faster if you forgive and stop considering him to be evil. On this I have no doubt. If you keep your wounds green and unhealed- the evil doer will not, AT LEAST to you, " appear " to be repenting. An honest remark by me based on personal experience. The moment you forgive and forget, suddenly and unexpectedly you hear the news of his sufferring. Any comments Mike about your experience or my experience? Fellow Sadhaks? This is my personal experience. 3. Nothing wrong will happen to you No doubt about that ! Timing ? Yes ! But I feel for the aggrieved it doesn't matter. He is too busy fighting. He loses the sense of timing. I wonder if he believes at that point that he is into bad times. I feel only today that I was unto terrible waters at that time. I did not feel so then. I don't know why. Any comments Mike? Dear fellow sadhaks? 4 As against one person doing evil to you, many others will come to your rescue. I can give many examples from my personal experience in life that it happened. Strangers help. Those who you in the past considered as bad or enemies help. Nature helps. Circumstances help. The most weak otherwise, they help. Help definitely comes without even soliciting and it comes in abundance. No doubt on that. Only thing which aggrieved should conquer and that takes time ( again my personal experience only) is to forget and forgive the evil doers. Baba! It is rather very very difficult. If one prays, one should always pray to be able to forgive. I don't know why it is difficult. May be ego has something to do with it. What do you say sadhaks ? Is it difficult? Why it is difficult ? Today it is not so for me. But in the past, it was terribly difficult. Most of the mental agonies which I suffered were in fact due to that only and not due to evil done actually to me by evil doer or because of the results of that evilness. And then comes the " blaming " . Who do you blame? That also is a very painful phase. I feel today, may be in retrospect, that in blaming you always incur a sin. Blame is sin in itself. Says Taat Shree- You have not forgiven, if you become happy, even subtly and internally, when you hear the news of suffering of evil doer !! Acid Test !!! Some of such tests which He prescribed , they kill your ego decisively. They are simple but absolutely difficult. They are difficult but in fact very very simple. Forgive and forget !! Another principle which I practiced, based on Great Swamiji, was to " do good " , if opportunity arises, to the very evil doer.( God gives you such opportunities, quite often. Another personal experience) . Great results come of that Karma. Believe me on that. It helps you in forgiving and forgetting. I remember I did good but inside my heart I thought that as revenge while doing. But later on I forgot. I forgot without even realising. Jai Shree Krishna Vyas N B ------------------------------- Namaskar, We should not do good thinking/expecting others to to do good to us. If we do good without any expectations, it will have effect on others, including the evil nature people, in the long run. With respects Sunil K. Thusu ------------------------------- PRIOR POSTING -Shree Hari- The last paragraph touches on something that is often missed by modern society. If someone 'throws dirty water in ones face', in return for ones kindness and compassion, in truth it is they who suffer. When I observe such people, I feel compassion, all that spiteful energy gives them a painful and wretched life, their world is different from mine , their world is filled with idiots, and nasty people, mine is filled with wise and beautiful people. As always I enjoy the posts. 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