Good deeds return to you
The formless divine being has taken all possible forms in this universe. Hence, there is nothing that is good/bad, right/wrong — because for anything to be good/bad or right/wrong, it has to be different from another, which in reality is not so, as everything is sourced from one origin only.
To stay with the divine, we can start perceiving and attributing everything as manifestation of the supreme divinity. For example, when we are sitting on a sofa/chair, we must feel that we are sitting in the lap of the divine being. When we are lying down on our bed, we can feel that we are prostrating at his feet. Imagine that while we sleep, we lie at god’s feet. Slowly, make this your habit and, eventually, you won’t even have to make efforts to imagine this —it will be your default view towards everything in this world.
The second aspect of the couplet is that the feelings/emotions we show towards others come back to us. Since everything stems from the One, everything becomes a reflection for everything else. If we give love to others, we will get back love, and if we give hatred, then others will hate us.
Lord Krishna has also stated the same thing in the Bhagvad Gita: “With whatever feeling one worships me, I worship him back with the same feeling.”
Sometimes we love somebody, but the other person does not reciprocate. In fact, we experience the opposite and receive hatred in return for love.
Such things happen because, knowingly or unknowingly, in the past (including past birth) we would have been hateful to that person and, so, the other person is exhausting his/her hatred now.
The emotions of love that we feel towards that person now will not go to waste and the same will be returned to us in the future, in all probability, when we need it most. So it is advisable that we express only good feelings towards others (irrespective of the nature of his/her feelings towards us).
Being good to others is a profitable proposition for us as goodness is freely available to us and we don’t have to earn or buy goodness. We only need to channel our inner goodness. As a result:
We will not get upset when others hate us, as we would know that what we are getting is what we gave in the past.
We will not be adding any more negativity and would not get caught in the cobweb of negative emotions.
When the other person’s negative feelings get exhausted, the good feelings that we have deposited over time will come back to us — hopefully, with due interest!
So, irrespective of what others feel for us, we should continue to feel good for them as we are here to make profits and not losses. Goodness shown to others is an investment for the future. This investment is guaranteed to give high returns provided we have faith and patience. Sadguru Rameshji is a modern age
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