Daily Meditation: Monday, December 9, 2002

We are not always rewarded for the good we do, this is true,…

12/09/2002

We are not always rewarded for the good we do, this is true, but that should not be a reason to become discouraged, and what is most important is that we find the right attitude. Let us say you have done somebody some good, by giving them material help for instance. Then, one day, you find that they did not deserve your help, and you go and tell the whole world how ungrateful they were after all you had done for them and that if you had known ... But why say all these things? If you go and complain to everyone, regretting your good deeds, you destroy the merit of what you did. It had already been recorded up above that you should be rewarded and now, by going round telling everyone that you have been let down, cheated, you erase the good you had done. Even if the people for whom you did good show themselves ungrateful, turn a blind eye and forgive them. This is how you grow. And anyway, what you have lost here will be given back to you a hundred times over later. Whatever people do to you, do not try to settle your scores. Wait for Heaven to pronounce itself in your favour; it is bound to happen one day.