Where the Spirit is Helpless!
By
Karmayogi
Many people have successfully
invoked the Spirit and have seen it in action. The government is too formidable
for an ordinary citizen to face as an opposite party in the court. When the
government chooses to acquire the only property on which a humble man pins his
hope, it is exercising its right. There is no law that the government is
contravening.
Nor is the party permitted to plead for mercy since many can plead so. The
Spirit intervenes by a telegram from the higher-ups of the government and
restores the humble man his only hope. When a high placed official is falsely
accused of corruption, the Spirit he relies on intervenes on his behalf,
without his knowledge, and proves to the central Finance Minister that he was
the only one incorruptible.
I am not going to recount the earlier examples in support of my argument. In a
family that was very well off, owning a car and two houses thirty years ago,
misfortune reared its head. All was lost. Fortunately there was one earning
member. Maybe he had half-fed the family but could not pay off the unpaid
debts. Life was hell. Education of children entered that phase when it becomes
expensive. Following education comes wedding. Not one, more than one. Close on
the heels of these heavy catastrophes and heavier responsibilities came Mother.
The unbearable became painfully bearable. Every impossibility, on referring to Her,
became a possibility. The family that was to be on the streets remained in the
house. Problems were over. But, responsibilities remained.
SHE came in, and shifted the responsibilities to other shoulders. The
unexpected happened. It added a pleasant surprise each time. Every positive
aspect multiplied. The non-devotee who had unleashed all this misfortune on
their heads now lamented and moaned that his prestige was lost. The Spirit can
solve insoluble problems or remove hurdles, but it is incapable of demanding
gratitude from an ego that is sensitive. God is helpless. The Spirit is
rendered incapable when it comes to asking for gratitude from a human heart. The
human heart forgets the Spirit, is not aware of the fact that it is ungrateful.
It abuses everyone, hurts the hand that feeds it. God, the Spirit, the Psychic
Being all simply wait for the devotee to grow grateful.