Minor Injustices of Life
Consciousness
By Karmayogi
Minor injustices of life are major
incidences of grace is a statement that raises an outrage even in a saint. Man
is normal when such indignities are not meted out to him. One is most pleased when life offers complete justice
in minor matters. Spiritually it is at those points God is trying to
enter our being. We put up a furious resistance and proclaim to the world, This
is an unjust world. People are bad. No one is reliable, not even the kith and
kin. I am afraid I shall grow cynical and selfish. Maybe I shall lose my faith
in God Almighty.''
For one who has taken to invoking the Spirit, the opposite occurs. Life changes,
and the very atmosphere of family is transformed. Of a sudden, children seem to
need you more affectionately. The boss who usually frowns, suddenly SMILES, the
wife after a long break of dry years becomes intimate, handsomely acknowledges
your worth, reviving the earlier days of romance when her looks were
flattering. One seems to be floating on the crest of psychological admiration. The
Spirit, thus, gives what the surface being was unsuccessfully craving for all
these days.
Next comes another phase in which your depth, called the subliminal, wants the
Spiritual reward. Being aware of its innate impatience, the depth asks the
Spirit for Patience. The deep personality knows the surface does not like
patience at all. The depths - the subliminal - compel the surface to seek work
by which it can learn Patience. The surface mind foolishly but eagerly joins a
club attracted by the eloquence of its president who admires you. Very soon you
find out the president is unpardonably slow. On the day of your office
inspection, the club president delays you when your nerves are on fire. A
quarrel issues, nerves breakdown. You feel you cannot meet him any more.
It scarcely occurs to you that after that provocative meeting with the
president, you are a whit less impatient. After all, you are free to disoblige
the club president on the day of inspection. You are your own master of this
situation. Still you honoured his invitation and he mortally offended you. It
is a minor injustice having major
consequences in your official life. Behind the president's
outrageous behaviour lies the Hand of God, known as grace, that responded to
the urge of your deeper personality. Minor
offences are Mother's caressing embrace is a bitter pill now. When
we offer a smiling welcome to the touch of such destabilizing approaches of
life, WISDOM dawns on us. It is God's embrace.
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