Goodness
By Karmayogi
Goodness is one of the three
aspects of Sat – Sat Purusha. Each aspect of Sachchidananda splits itself into
some aspects. Sat becomes Unity, Truth and goodness. Chit becomes knowledge and
will. Ananda resolves itself into Beauty, joy and Love. When Truth acquires knowledge, Goodness is born. Some
people are naturally good. Mother easily comes to them. They are pleasant,
expansive, and ready to oblige, anticipating another person's needs. Generally
good people are more interested in being good than in Mother, even when they
are devotees. To them, goodness is a way of life, an instinct, an article of
faith. They cannot refrain from being good.
Such goodness is found in people irrespective of education, status or other
positive endowments. It exists by itself. Good people are in their elements
when they express their innate GOODNESS. Ancient Tamil culture was an ethical
culture. Thirukural is an ethical treatise, not a spiritual one. The purity of
that ancient tradition remains unsullied in Jaffna.
People there are frank, open, self-giving in the extreme. The normal human
consideration of self-interest we call selfishness is not part of their schemes.
To outsiders, they may appear credulous and gullible. Really, they are innocent
of guile. Love thy neighbour is a live unspoken maxim in their lives.
There was a good girl born in a family not so good as she. They were NOT trying
to marry her even at an advanced age. The members of the family conceived of a
plan to dump her into a disadvantage in marriage. The girl preferred to remain
unwed. Though she was working in Mother's atmosphere, she had no
particular faith in Mother. She married into great advantage a citizen of Canada who was from Sri Lanka. It was a family that lived in
affection, showering attention on all members. She was smothered in
affectionate attention. It is a family where excess savings are used to buy
properties for those who have none. To them, it is an affectionate custom, a
long ingrained usage in the family. The girl is unable to juxtapose her own
family with her in-laws even in her imagination. They are poles apart. Mother
has taken her to a family where every member exceeds her in native goodness. This is Mother's
transformation of her atmosphere.