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2024-07-23

Being Free From The Desire For Praise (Part 2)

Always remember that as an actor in the world drama, I have to perform all actions to my best capability, but it is not possible to always please everyone with my performance all the time. This is because we have woven webs of negative karma with a large number of souls in our previous births as well as in our present birth. Because of this sometimes even our good actions are seen as negative ones or sometimes not noticed by some.

1 ● When we understand this hidden secret of karma, we will perform nice actions only for our happiness and not to please others or receive their respect, which may or may not come. Suppose I talk lovingly and sweetly with someone who is negative and angry with me, do they always respond in the same manner? So, should I also stop being nice to them? So praise for my actions from others is less important than praise from myself and even God, who is always noticing what I do the whole day and how I behave.

2 ● We are all also brothers at the spiritual level. As brothers, we share a bond of spiritual love with each other and to love, care and respect for each other is our natural spiritual duty. But when we consider serving others as something for which we should get recognition, we have forgotten the same. God serves the whole world in different ways. He helps us in different ways, but sometimes we do not realize it.

➤ Does He look for recognition? No. So, 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧. We commonly say we are misunderstood by this person. And then we feel hurt because the other person did not appreciate us. So serving selflessly is the key to contentment and inner freedom from the desire for praise.

(Continues tomorrow...)

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Message for Today

"There is good in every step in fulfilling my promise"

"There is good in every step in fulfilling my promise"

Points to think about:

Often we swear to ourselves and others . Even if we are honest at the time , in practice sometimes the promise is not fulfilled. Truth becomes useless if we do not implement our intentions.


Procedure:

When I make a promise to bring about change within myself , I need to immediately plan a process to help put the truth into practice . I also need to understand why fulfilling that promise is important to me. Until that task is accomplished , it is necessary to remind myself again and again of the responsibility I have assumed.

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