Daily Meditation: Saturday, December 11, 2004

Spiritualists - their engagement does not spare them ordeals

12/11/2004

Even among spiritualists, how many have discovered the inner attitude that enables them to surmount their difficulties? They will give you erudite commentary on the law of karma, with references to all the books of India and to complicated Sanskrit terminology… They will tell you that the law of karma is the law of cause and effect, the law of justice; that a particular action leads to particular consequences for an individual's future, and so on. But as soon as they themselves are afflicted with misfortune, they rebel: they study, they practise a spiritual discipline, they work for good, so how is it that God has not protected them? Suddenly they have forgotten that the earth is a school through which they too must pass. They are perhaps more educated than most, but they still have much to learn.