Protecting ourselves from the bad deeds of others! Simple Tips!
A Girl devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Many unpleasant things happen in this life due to our past karma. However, if we feel for a certainty that we are not harming others, then why still we are hurt by others by words and action. Is it advisable to reverse the bad deed done by them to us back to them?”
REPLY:
Ha Ha.. Typical thoughts. First question is not new. But, the second one is new to this site.
(1)
Actually, the karmic reactions are faced by everyone, though they are very good souls.
All of us know that Mahathma Gandhi is a kind hearted person and he was against killing even an insect.
He tried to strictly adhere to ahimsa, ie, non-violence. However kind he was, he faced death by getting killed.
So, no one is immune to karma.
Only if a person renounces all his material attachments (this is most important) and surrender to the Lord, he can get immunity from Karmic reactions.
Even if he has a trace of material attachments, he has to be under the network of karma.
So, if you like to avoid the effects of past karma, Love all the creations and living beings as the products and parts of Krishna, but stop having attachment with anyone and anything on earth.
Surrender to the Lord and Perform all your activities only for Him. Now you can always be in a bliss.
So, those people referred by you may be a nice and pious people in this birth. However, they might have done some disturbances to others in their past birth. So, they are disturbed in this birth also, though they remain good.
They will reap the good benefits of their good deeds of present birth in their next birth. This is the equation of karma.
(2) Next, Let us see the way of Protecting ourselves from the bad deeds of others!
As said by the Lord Buddha, if you do not accept an offering given by others, it goes back to them.
If you show as if you are suffering because of their acts, they will enjoy your suffering and they will consider it as their success. So, they will increase their tortures.
So, my advice to you is to reject their bad acts and continue to be normal in your approach as if you do not get affected by their acts. They will torture you for once, twice, or thrice, but, they will stop because they will feel boring to deal with you as they did that expecting any response from you.
So, REJECTING their bad deeds is the right way of returning the bad deeds of others back to them in material way!
There is a spiritual way also! If you keep yourself spiritually strong by chanting and following purity, no bad deeds or curses of others will affect you!
You can follow the both together! Materially reject and be spiritually strong!
Don’t worry about any bad deeds of others towards you!
This is my way of approach too as I have faced so many such incidents in my material as well as spiritual life.
You too follow this approach for Protecting ourselves from the bad deeds of others! You will find peace of mind.
(Why even Krishna’s devotees face tortures from spouse? READ HERE!)