Positive and Negative
By Karmayogi
Positive events are welcome; negative developments are unwelcome. The
definition of positive or negative can vary according to one’s level of
inner as well as outer development. To secure a seat by recommendation
may be welcome to many. To the sensitive, it may be offensive that
someone should recommend his case. Bribe as income, though welcomed in
certain houses, is negative in cultured homes. Generally GOOD is
positive; what is not good is negative. My topic is conversion of the
negative into the positive.
A man abuses you. It is negative. How can I change his abuse into praise
or at least no abuse. The higher entering the lower changes the negative
into the positive. The higher can be a person, a consciousness, an
attitude, or an understanding. A policeman calling on you to announce
that you are required by his officer is an unwelcome development. On
learning that that officer appreciates your service in your factory
area, the negative event changes into a positive one. Here it is the
information. An MLA’s driver in his growing self-importance quarrelled
with a VIP and beat him. The VIP was a classmate of the then sitting
cabinet Minister. The MLA belonged to the party of the Minister.
Compromise efforts landed coveted contracts in the lap of the victim.
There are phenomena that need no explanation. Anxiety, worry, sadness,
depression are negative. Spirit can remove them by its force. I consider
another possibility here-whether they can be transformed into their
opposites of security, cheerfulness, joy, delight. Anxiety is reinforced
by our constant dwelling on it. Our energy and attention makes anxiety
grow. That being the fact, how can we transform it or get rid of it? In
the very depths of our being, one must be sure that by some perverse
motivation one does not draw subtle pleasure from these negative
emotions. In its absence, one can change it.
Before going to sleep, refer your anxiety to Mother in great detail.
Mother entering anxiety changes the character of anxiety. Even the
reference will lighten the heart. Pray for its transformation. If you
continue to do so, one morning it will present itself as the First
Waking Thought. From that day, it will disappear.