Message #15151

[Jitendra Hydonus]

The reason and response to poverty were amazingly delt with in the life of Jesus. Think of the joy of someone being told: 'Follow Me'. To be in the presence of an Avatar. I have! There are people who make you richer by being in their presence and deprived by their absence. Yet there was one who was told 'sell everything and give to the poor'. Now; let us ask the simple question who was really poor and who was really rich? So you see karma can be very deceptive. So it is plain to see that we cannot judge and understand karma by an outer display. I have been  around people who think they are rich but have found much more joy in the hearts of those who were not bounded and gagged by the entrapment of financial wealth. Of course there are exceptions to every situation. Such is the character of duality.

Yet often we are blessed to have such people caught in the spider web of finacial wealth leave us before we to have our very life blood sucked up by the black widow who catches us in her web.

 I had the good fortune (karma) to see Daya Mata several times and in person at the Mother Center. She said: 'It is so wonderful to be in love.' Having that presence of God with us and recognizing it makes our conditions appear very different. We are no longer in the grips of outward display that reinforces our existence because we become rich with being.

Karma is not a static phenomena but rather dynamic. There is the karma that comes to us and we simply make a few adjustments and it is taken care of. There is the karma that requires remedial action and there is karma that we must endure and pray about. There is also karma of nations and karma of our earth to name a few. Our understanding of concepts such as karma expands and changes as we evolve and we find ourselves in higher yugas.

So we see that many times in history nations have taken action to relieve the social inequalities that exist. This is something that Obama is making an effort to do. Yet there will always be those who resist the progress of time and evolution. They themselves are blocked in their own evolution. As we once had slavery we now see economic slavery. It is for us to recognize when the karma of a people is changing and the resistance to that change that thwarts progress.