HOW TO USE KARMA FOR OUR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT PART 2
Let’s take an example to illustrate what this means: Someone is often blocked in their accomplishments by fear of the judgment of others. She does everything to get rid of this fear but without succeeding. However, in other circumstances, this same person might find himself judging in his turn, severely condemning, if only in thought, another person for acts or attitudes which they deem contemptible. These thoughts of contempt, when they are emitted, give their author a feeling of superiority over the person despised. The pleasure that the initiator of these thoughts derives from them prevents him from realizing the evil that these kinds of attitude sow around him. Now, these thoughts, this attitude, are also seeds. The harvest will be that at another time that individual will experience the effect on himself of these same kinds of thoughts. In this case, fear or the feeling of being judged harshly or despised by others will suffice. If he is to be successful in overcoming his fear of judging others, he must first renounce this tendency to judge others himself. By being more understanding, more tolerant, more welcoming towards others, he in turn will feel more the understanding that others will have for him. The harm they may think of him will make him suffer less and less and will eventually leave him indifferent. For him, this is only one way to overcome his fear of judging others: by first stopping judging others.
When it comes to using the karma that reaches us to recognize and correct the faults we have, or to strengthen certain underdeveloped aspects of our personality, the work becomes more difficult when the crops reach us in the form of external events that apparently we did not cause, such as for example, natural disasters - earthquakes, floods), painful losses, accidents, illnesses, etc.
Those who recognize in these events the action of the law of reciprocity of effects will then ask: '' What could I have done to harvest what is happening to me now? '' This question obliges us. to look into the past. Trying to remember what we may have done, said or thought to reap such bitter fruit is no easy task! And if, in addition, the seed of this event was sown in a previous life, then it will be wasted trying to remember the act we may have committed.
Obviously, if the harvest came back to humans faster, it would be easier for them to see the connection between their past actions and present events. But the fact that the harvest may take a long time to return is a consequence of the fall of earthly humanity and its estrangement from the Light. Because, as ABD-RU-SHIN explains:
“In regions close to the Light, movement must be much faster than in regions far from it. "
The cycle that our sowing must go through before reaching us in the form of a harvest, therefore, also sees its movement slow down, which complicates the task of those who want to recognize their mistakes.
Despite this, there is still a way that allows each of us to use the karma that has reached us to recognize what we need to change and improve personally. Indeed, in the Grail Message, we learn that a bad harvest can reach us and hurt us painfully insofar as we still carry within us today the tendency, the inclination, the defect which gave rise to this event in the past. This defect can either be expressed visibly or even remain hidden if the circumstances of life are favorable. But, even if it remains hidden, it is there anyway and it just takes things to ’turn badly’ ’for it to come out again. The mere fact that we still carry this defect within us - without even manifesting itself in visible acts - is enough to bring on us painful harvests.
But if this defect is sufficiently corrected that even in our thoughts it no longer makes itself felt, if a corresponding quality has taken its place, when the bad harvests come, instead of overwhelming us painfully, they will simply bring us opportunities to do good deeds, and thereby show our sincere goodwill to help others.
From this knowledge, we can now deduce that if we are hit hard by any event, it is because the defect that sowed the seed of this bad karma has not yet been erased in us. So it is still there when the harvest arrives. All that remains is to discover its nature.
But, in order to do this, we must not dwell on the outward appearance of the events that affect us, but on the contrary on the profound experiences that these events give us. Because the same event can bring different experiences to different people and, therefore, different harvests for each of them.
For example, a war in one country can strike every individual in many ways: to one it will bring excruciating physical pain, to another the loss of a loved one, to yet another it will bring anguish, fear… or all of this at the same time.
TO BE CONTINUED IN PART3
Catégorie : teachings | article publié le : 17 juin 2021