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Compassion

You said order, harmony, frankness, wideness, clarity are good. Not chaos and hesitation. Also, that Silence is often a golden thing. One’s feelings and thoughts and ideas should be offered and shared with the Divine. Unless there is something of crucial importance where speaking out is needed. 💬🕊️ […]

Speaking and sharing are surely beautiful things and important ingredients of a relationship. But this sharing should generally be of a beautiful nature, for example

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It’s easier to think about aligning with God when idle, but harder in moments of real choice—especially when torn between comfort and asking, “What would God want me to do?” Acting with sincerity, enthusiasm, and self-forgetfulness, being a resource to others, and embodying cheerful equanimity feels like a truer way to connect with the Divine. Imagining Their presence and working for Them helps deepen that connection. 🫨🌼🦋[…]

The defects you enumerate are universal, though the extent and expression differs. Their root cause is ego, ignorance and desire which almost universally afflict all

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If Karma is fundamentally a process of learning from ignorance rather than a system of punishment, how do we reconcile the suffering caused by “asuric” acts committed in that ignorance, and how can one maintain faith in the Divine’s control while struggling to see the spiritual purpose behind such cruelty? ⚖️♻️🪃🔄🙏🏻

Yes, thank you for the question and your dilemma or confusion as you call it is quite understandable. In Indian thought, the root of evil

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