EVERYTHING COME BACK!!!
Dear Sir,
What does being 'good' mean? I might be good to different people in different ways. I might feel what I am doing is 'good' for self, for family and for the society at large. But that might not be entirely true. By being good to someone, my action might affect probably someone else negatively. Am I right?
If I am doing good, I must get only good in return is it not? Of course I am not doing 'good' for this purpose. It is in my nature to be so. There is no quid pro quo involved. But the agony and the anguish when one feels when negative things happen to him in spite of doing only good things to others….the hurt one passes through, that's when one asks oneself 'why should all these negative things happen to me when I am doing so much good to others ..'
This is purely a hypothetical scenario.
How to deal with it? How does spirituality help in such situations? How and with whom could one seek solace?
Regards
Response from the moderator
Usually Spirituality doesn't deal with 'hypothetical' scenarios. These are personal experiences that people cherish & keep learning out of that. However, we shall attempt to respond.
First, 'Expectation is the root cause for misery!' Why expect something when we do something 'good'? (The thought keeps coming to us)
Second, 'All good deeds come back to us 100 fold' and so does 'not so good deeds'! This is a Universal truth!
The problem is it doesn't happen in 'our time frame' nor does it happen 'the way we want it!' Hence we interpret it as, 'I haven't got any rewards'!
Duty without expectation of reward is the essence of the Bhagavad Gita.
Let us look at some examples to drive home the point.
1. On one occasion, during Sankranthi festival celebrations, Krishna was offered freshly harvested sugarcane by the Gopis. As there were no machines those days, to squeeze the juice out of the sugarcane, Krishna had to cut it. While doing so, he inadvertently cut his little finger.
Seeing blood on his finger, Sathyabhama, in her characteristic pride, ordered the Gopis to go inside the house to fetch some cloth to bandage the finger. Draupadi, who was also there, however, out of her love and concern, for Krishna, immediately tore off a piece of cloth from the end of her new sari and bandaged the Lord's finger!!!
Years later, when Dushasana brought Draupadi to the court of the Kauravas with the intention of humiliating her in public, she appealed to Krishna for his Divine intervention and to save her honor. Krishna sent her an endless sari with the same little finger that was bandaged then!!! Did Draupadi ever imagine that her good deed would come back to her like this but it did at the right time when she needed it most!!!
2. Once Duryodhan wandered around the halls of the palace made by Maya and got confused. So skillful was Maya's artistry that where there was no water it gave the impression of water and where there was water one thought it was floor.
Doors turned out to be solid walls and walls were the doors. Amazed, Duryodhana once hit a wall when he thought he was walking through the door and once jumped into a pond when he thought he was treading on the floor!
The same Draupadi laughed at him then and to add insult to his injury, she said "Son of a blind man can only be blind man."
This laid the foundation for more & more misery for her & the Pandavas. What followed was the treacherous dice game. Her bad deed also came back to her with full force! But then her faith & devotion to Lord Krishna was so strong which saved her.
3. When Yudishthira decided to conduct the Rajasuya Yajna, Shishupala insulted Krishna as a cowherd and worthless to be honored as a king. He kept hurling abuse after abuse on Krishna, sin after sin.
Krishna waited till Shishupala crossed 100 sins and only after that HIS Sudarshana Chakra zoomed past to cut off Shishupala's head! He was patient & smiling till then! This is quite symbolic; 'For everything there is a right time'.
That's why SWAMI always says, "Watch out not only for your ACTIONS or DEEDS but also THOUGHTS & WORDS!!!
4. Mother Theresa hung a copy of this poem on a wall of the orphanage she founded in Calcutta. (A few stanzas given below)
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
do good anyway.
You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.
OM SAI RAM
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