2nd Letter from Acharya Sri Samadarsiniji

Dear friend,

Blessings to you from Sri Amma and Sri Bhagavan. Love and regards
from me. Your letters to God were very touching and beautiful beyond
words. The more you recognise grace, more is the power of God
revealed to you.

What I am going to share with you is a lesson Sri Amma, gave us as
children 18 winters ago as we sat on a huge rock observing a sunset.

Sri Amma told us,
"There are three kinds of people who walk the earth.
1. they that hurt even those who love them.
2. they that love only those who love them
3. they that love even those who hurt them

The first category of people are those who have eyes but cannot see.
Who have a heart that beats relentlessly but still cannot feel. They
are blind and dead to all love and care that is shown to them.

They drink the love that is showered on them and yet hurt, neglect
and ignore those that love. For them relationships are meant to be
made use off. They are incapable of gratitude. They are a plague and
a disease to mother earth. Never be one among them.

Children, the second among people are those who care only for those
for those who love them. Their love is selfish and very limited.
Their love lasts only so long as the other continuously loves them
and plays to their tunes. They make use of people and are also
willing to be made use off, so long as it is convenient to them.

But gradually they become insensitive to love and care that they
experience on an ongoing basis. These are the ordinary people who
only survive but never get to know the joy of living.

I would certainly expect you to become conscious of yourself to see
if you are one of these. The first and the second predominate the
earth and hence the pain and the anguish you find everywhere.

The third among people are a blessing
The third among people are a blessing. It is these that maintain the
balance of dharma in a world that is so adharmic and heartless. You
find them everywhere, humble, innocent, mighty, great, rich, poor -
among all sections of society. You may even find them in your own
families.

They perceive life to be an occasion for learning and therefore when
people hurt them they see them messengers from the divine, who have
come to teach them lessons. Are they not your gurus who teach you
deep spiritual lessons on suffering, on compassion, on forgiveness?
Life is ultimately a quest to know oneself. Those that hurt you, are
revealing to you your innermost emotions of anger, frustration, and
venom etc. Since only that which lurks inside comes out when
provoked. Therefore do not labour under the presumption of
your being righteous and the other being unrighteous. Be humble
enough to see the truth of whatever you are.

Also be grateful that those who hurt you are taking away your bad
karmic debts and cleansing you.

The third kinds of people are the noblest of creation - since they
return love for those who hurt them.

Dear friends,
This message from Amma has stayed with me and all those
who heard it that day, guiding and shaping our lives over the years.

In this season of gratitude why not follow this
profound message with an immediacy of action.

STEP 1: Take a book and a pen and make a list of all people who hurt
you- deep and superficial hurts. (If possible also remember all the
good they did to you as well. Do not benumb yourself to all the good
they did to you, remembering the pain they caused. Include also into
your list those who you think never did any good at all other than
hurt you- that is the place you will experience the greatest
satisfaction)

STEP 2: Make a list of simple and detailed ways in which you could
touch their lives with love and gratitude. (In what ways could you
help those who hurt you? However you can take precautions to see that
you are not taken for a ride again)

STEP 3: Go ahead and do it now.

STEP 4: Report back to us the miracles that you experience along the
way, since you surely will.

Express gratitude
Express gratitude - show it through a letter, a mail,a gift, an act
or kind and affectionate words and you will see the floodgates of
grace open to you.Greater your forgiveness and love - greater the
grace. Take care that you do not however point out their mistakes
and put them to shame in the very act of expressing love and thanks.

All the guides hold you in our prayers to Sri Amma and Sri Bhagavan.
May their grace manifest in your life in the most beautiful forms.

Ever in Their service
Samadarshini