Daily Meditation: Friday, March 30, 2012

Giving - after taking is the first principle of justice

03/30/2012

Giving and taking are like the two pans on a pair of scales. When you take, you must give to restore balance. And even if you do not take, you must also give. Why? Because in this way you set up a motion and receive something in return. But begin at least by learning to give when you have taken; this in itself will be progress. Check your relationships with those around you: take a very honest look at how you behave, not only with your parents, your children, your friends and society, but also with nature, and finally with God. You will see you have taken a great many things from visible and invisible creatures without taking care to give anything in return. Therefore you have debts. Well, be aware that the reason you reincarnate is to pay off all these debts. We all without exception have karma to pay off. Whether it is individual karma or collective karma matters little. There is personal karma as well as social, national and racial karma, but it is not really necessary to ask yourself which it is: we have to pay our debts, that is all, because that is justice. And when you hear the word ‘justice’, your whole being should quake at the thought that this word contains the secrets of cosmic balance.