Good Will
Thursday August 26 2004 09:48 IST
By Karmayogi
When you meet people of
good will, there is a pleasing sensation in the nerves. Leaving them behind,
you go to do some work. The work turns out to be smoother than you expected. One
of the reasons for that outcome is the good will of the person you met with on
the way. Sometimes we hear, ‘‘Each time I meet your brother, I see
luck around the corner. What is it with him?'' Surely people who
carry good will help you accomplish the work on hand. Of course, it is the true
good will you have for him that activated his good will for you to be effective
in your work. When you have only GOOD WILL towards anyone, whatever good will
they have gets activated and results in good. To have such good will, which
mind is incapable of, it is better to try to shift to the Spirit as often as
possible, especially when you meet with someone.
There was a textile merchant in a village who had acquired a reputation that
whoever saw him in the morning would surely receive a flesh wound that day. Unfortunately
for the trader, it was true in the experience of the villagers. People would
enter any house if news got around that he was on the road, just to escape
seeing him. Can we have good will for him? When you go out, especially for
important work, you do not want to meet people of such reputation. Such people
run across you especially when you are having some negative thoughts in your
mind. Active thoughts that are positive in the mind are less likely to bring
such people your way. These things are of significance only as long as you
believe in them. Should you shift from mind to Spirit, no such person will be
encountered. You will be a bringer of luck to others.
Invoking the Spirit, you will escape such characters if there are any in your
vicinity. Such people will suddenly take another route. If you are positive and
centred in the Spirit, even if you pass him, your work will not be spoiled by
him, should you be in the Spirit. You will see the phenomenon of an evil sight
doing good, reversing its native character. His character may assert to leave a
small dent on your work, but refusal to believe in the power of the evil eye is
more powerful than the evil eye. Your work will be fulfilled at a higher level
than expected. The point is NOT whom we meet, what his rasi is, but what we are
inside, how GOOD we are innately, and how we feel towards the other in spite of
his rasi. We are the determinant, not anyone else. We are the Spirit inside and
that Spirit determines the work.