Daily Meditation: Monday, April 26, 2010

Exchange, law of - rules all human relationships

04/26/2010

Harmonious social life can only be founded on fair exchanges, and these can be summed up in two words: give and take. On the material plane, the issue is clear for everyone; we all know what a fair exchange is. But that isn't really enough, for the law of exchange concerns all realms of existence. Someone can say, 'I am an honest person, I pay my taxes, I pay my employees, I don't swindle my customers.' That's fine, but how do they behave towards their parents, their husband or wife, their children? It is so much easier to be honest and fair on the material plane than on the psychic! You even see people giving all manner of outer displays of honesty, the better to hide the dishonest way they relate to others intellectually and emotionally. They succeed in deceiving others (and then, not always), but they do not deceive divine justice, whose definitions of giving and taking are not the same as those of human justice.