RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL

 

RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL

            It is almost impossible for a non-Buddha to return good for evil. The  whole world  is full of  persons who persistently nourish a spirit of revenge. 

              Crime, as a  result of vindictiveness, prevails everywhere  survives not only for days but even months and years  among individuals, as well as groups  and  nations.

           To forgive and return good for evil, one has to be a Buddha. Lord Gautam Buddha (over five hundred years before Lord Christ) is said to have told a  disciple “If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me; the fragrance of goodness always comes to me, and the harmful air of evil goes to him.”

  According to him a wicked man who reproaches a virtuous one is like one who looks up and spits at heaven; the spittle soils not the heaven, but comes back and defiles his own person.

The slanderer is like one who flings dust at another when the wind is contrary; the dust returns on him who threw it.

The moral of the story is that: the virtuous man cannot be hurt: the misery comes back on the slanderer. 

So don’t be a slanderer,  be a virtuous man and return good for evil.

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19^th October 2022                                         G.R.kANWAL