Being good and suffering pain

You may be thinking that 'doing/being good' is a privilege you have to live in this world with greater comfort. If you think that ethical living will give you an easy living, you are wrong.

Nature teaches it in this way - It doesn't matter if you are a carnivore or a herbivore, other carnivores will never stop hunting you. Doing good is no reason for the wild world to behave nicely to innocent you.

There are a zillion of examples in real life for this many of which you yourself can think of from your personal lives. You may be good. But its not a shield for you to get protected from being cheated by the best of your friends. Its not that you will never be suffering from others actions if you are good. Moral of the story is not that you have to be cruel to prevent.

Most of the people are conditioned to believe that when they do good, only good things will happen to them. Its the duty of the Supreme Being to make arranagements to shower good things to the good doer. Is it that way? Is it not justice if bad things happen to good people?

Too much on doing good without the concept of karma is handicapped. The theory of karma given by Bhagavat Gita says if you do selfless service to the worthy people, you will feel some supreme presence of goodness or happiness in you. There are many people working with NGOs who are living examples to this. This part of human existence is called Spiritual Quotient.

In my college,SPJIMR, we have a faculty named Mr. Parimal Merchant who has been collaborating with various NGOs apart from teaching students. His personal experience says, the selfless acts to the worthy people fills a vaccum. It is like drops of rain water in the dry soil in summer. As a result of this, his personal power increases. He is loved by everyone in the college. Theres nobody in the college who is not a fan of his ways. His personlaity is worth emulating.

So do not lose heart. Do good and feel the supreme being's presence in yourself. Its the easiest and fastet way compared to sitting idle for meditation.

jo