To think of harming anyone is to harm ourselves
No evil can come to another
as a result of our contemplating or doing harm to him or her. An evil consequence
is reaped as a result of our past actions. Under such circumstances if we
contemplate or do harm to anyone we harm to ourselves. When our mind harbors
ill-will towards another, such ill-will reacts on our own life. We continue to
mould ourselves according to the Pattern of our thoughts.
There are numerous blessings
in the kingdom of God and the Lord has also endowed us with a wonderful faculty
of entertaining blessed thoughts. If we turn this faculty to account, not only
will our joy and happiness of others.
When we contemplate or do
good to others we do good to our own self, the continued continues practice of
contemplating good promotes our tendency to do good. Then it becomes our nature
to do good, and our doing good to others reacts most favourably on others; they
too begins to contemplate and do good to us in return. In this way all are
benefited as a matter of course by contemplating and doing good to one another.
We earn the good fortune of performing the meritorious act of propagating and
extending good.
The capacity of those who
make unstinted and timely use of the God-given faculty of doing good develops
further; while those who do not make the most of their capacity in time have to
repent. Growing feebler and feebler the capacity disappears. Therefore, do not
lose an opportunity in hand; do not put it off a benevolent act for the morrow.
Do it immediately and whole heartedly as far as possible and expending your
full energy in the proper channel. The Lord’s grace will descend on you. Your
capacity will grow and your will be able to make yourself blessed by serving as
a mighty instrument in the hands of the hands of the lord, the benefactor of
the world.
We ever seek and expect from
others that all may do a good turn to us, that none may persecute us, that none
may do an ill turn to us, that none may persecute us, that none may do us harm.
Start doing unto others what you would have them to do unto you. The good turn
done by you will revert to you. The good turn done by you will revert to you in
an infinite measure in the same way as few handfuls of grain sown in a field by
a cultivator return to him in an infinite degree.
He who seeks his own
gratification, welfare and good but does not wish well of others, nay, who
persecutes others, wishes ill of them and wishes harm to them cannot attain
happiness, blessedness and good luck. He may at one time deucedly account
himself happy, but he can never be happy. To wish harm to others is to harm
one’s own self. This is an established conclusion, a really unfailing
proposition.
You have not at all come to
this earth for contemplating harm to anyone. The Lord has vouchsafed to you a
human body in order that you may achieve your salvation even while
contemplating and doing good to all, all the time, and in the end attain the
blessed goal of realizing the supremely blessed Divinity. This is the object of
your life as a human being and to move carefully towards it is your only
paramount duty. Keep this great objective in mind and continue to discharge
your duty.