Feb. 15, 2002
(by Karmayogi)
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The mother-in-law is negative
to the daughter-in-law
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The opposition is negative to
the ruling party.
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A jealous rival is negative
to me.
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The bargaining customer is
negative to the store.
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In fact, the
world and life are full of negatives.
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Can the negative disappear, or become positive or
can both become one single harmonious Whole?
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Yes, it can, if
the positive can realise that it is the Whole that includes the negative.
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We accept a boss, in spite of
his bad temperament, when we see his indispensability for us, especially when
one temperament surfaces in him.
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That we feel his
indispensability is the irresistible link to the other side.
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Knowledge is his bad temperament is indispensable to
us, to our progress.
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A spendthrift comes to
Mother. Her atmosphere changes the consequences of his spending. He sees that
the occasions for him to waste are now less. Wherever he wastes money, he sees
a part goes into good use and even generates income.
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Extravagant waste is the other side
exuberant generosity.
¨ When Mother’s consciousness is fully accepted, his
negative faculty becomes positive and his
extravagance becomes an instrument of enormous incoming money.
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The stingy, profit-seeking
storeowner meets a bargaining, cunning, dishonest customer.
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The storeowner accepts Mother
and becomes generous-minded. Now his customers are not bargaining, are honest
and pleasant. We know this happens. How does it happen? What is the process?
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Mother’s
atmosphere changes our negative side to positive to some extent, as in the
presence of Her atmosphere the negative loses edge.
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Generally in the whole of our
personality we are at the centre. When we tend to one side, our personality
takes on its character. Hence, we are positive or negative.
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When She comes
in, She compels us to be on the positive side.
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In a whole positive is what we
accept and negative is what we do not accept. She enables us to accept more.
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The Spirit
rising from inside accepts ALL and there is nothing left
out to be called negative.
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Using Her Presence inside, if we bring the Spirit to the surface, our
negative side disappears. As a strategy, it is the best.
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Sometimes more explanations may be
needed.
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When someone is deceitful, it is
obvious he is under an inner pressure to be deceitful. By recognising
his need, we sympathise with him. That gives an
opening.
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We quickly recognise
the occasions in our speech, manners, tone, attitude, etc. which compels him to
be deceitful. As we recognise, so he too recognises. The whole atmosphere changes.
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By concentrating more on
Mother, without our noticing we become unsuspecting and generous. That brings
about a corresponding change in him.
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As you look at another person
if you look at your inner self as another person, the same change occurs.
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The key lies in the urge to change.
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The extent of change becomes
greater by the width of our comprehension.
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To assume contradictions are complements at one high end, we can
practically concentrate on Mother, taking the other man’s point of view. It will soon be clear that Negative is only
an Attitude in us.
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