Spirit in Action
By Karmayogi
It is a truism in life and much more so in Spirit that when we give up our due,
the rightful right, what the Spirit considers our desert, will come. I can tell
myself I should give up my wrong desire, but it will not work. To give up my
desire has always been an impossibility to me. How can I bring myself to give
up my right which I deserve? But life demands that of man when it wants to
reward him abundantly. In Spirit, that is the first rule.
A poor college student was an affectionate member of a rich family as he was a
classmate of the son of the family which owned a sizeable company. It was a
privilege for the poor boy to mix with his friends family, and for about ten
years he was one of them. Particularly an annual feast was this poor boys
entire responsibility. It had been customary that the poor boy would be invited
to dine there in the feast. It was an ordinary courtesy in any house,
especially when it was he who arranged the feast in all its details.
The poor boy was talented, charming, and pleasant. Everyone in the family
recognised all that. That evoked jealousy in the rich boy who felt the full
force of his right to order him about. It was the annual day of the feast. As
usual the poor boy had done everything. His friend decided to wreak vengeance
on him. His meanness grew perverse. He decided NOT to invite his poor friend
for the dinner that day. The poor boy was stung. It began to rankle. Now he had
to do all the work but not sit at the table. All eyes were on him. He was
covered with shame. It was too much, even for a saint.
It was a crucial inner moment for him. He went in and was unable to face the
inner misery. He told himself, Mother is great, greater than this meanness.
He tried to shift himself from dwelling on this humiliation to the sweet
expansiveness of The Divine Mother. Contrary to his experience, until then,
there was a great relief; no longer was the offence real. Just at that moment,
the mother of his friend called him to her room and said, My husband and I
appreciate what you are to the family. From on Thursday, you are a director in
our company. My boy may not like it. Keep it confidential.