Steve, objectively, you still do not appear to have overcome the fact with the other devotee. Or maybe you overcame that but want to make things clear with the other devotee. Or you just are looking for a spiritually satisfactory closure. Your posts in the other thread suggest this and I do not say I'm right or wrong, I just say my mind construes those posts as not having really overcome the experience.
Burnt means: branded, signed. It is not necessarily negative. In this life I'll never ever trust friends or other people with money. Hopefully in future lives as well. Is that a good or bad thing? Yoganandaji thought to be shrewd in business. That's one thing you learn after time. What I'm learmning now is to be able to be detached and maybe saving something of the ast friendship. And, really, I have sometimes evil thoughts which I'm compelled to control and that's a good exercise. Evil thoughts mean thoughts of shooting my friend.
I still cannot say I got swindled but the amount is going to be pretty substantial and things started out pretty bad. The karma went both ways of course, my friend having lost future income, me
It has taken sometime to get back to answering this. Perhaps it is because i am not sure how to respond to it. When we are still in the midst of conditions with others we do not always have the answers so we struggle with interpreting events and knowing what our attitude should be to such situations. It is just difficult for me to believe that people that are so close to us can be so cruel and i have this hope that someday they may recognize their folly as we ourselves learn and recognize that we have made mistakes in life.
Those are quite difficult thoughts you have mccoy. i (nor do i believe you can see doing this) just can't see getting any kind of revenge or retribution.... which only leads us deeper into a quagmire. It is much more beneficial to recognize other doors opening for us rather than be tied to an inexorable past that can destroy us spiritually speaking. That was then.... this is now and what signs have we for developing future options? Life is very creative in that sense. We create our destiny. i know life is much different now and it would be difficult to go back to pristine times with those we loved when so much has happened. If we continue with them it will be a different destiny than we envisioned.
i find myself more and more grateful for the friendship and love that is given now and recognize how we as humans never quite seem to appreciate what we have while we have it.
Steve Hydonus
