Taking Responsibility
Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhardev Goswami Maharaja
Who is responsible if you look to see injustice? You are held responsible. What is bad, that is your share. You are to take the whole responsibility of misdeed in your hand. If you cannot feel this then you are insincere, and this is true for everyone. Your free will is responsible for all misdeeds and misguided circumstances in the environment. This is the first principle of spiritual life.
‘What is bad in me, I am responsible for that.’ You are responsible for seeing, for coming in connection with that vision. There are also good dealings in another sphere. Why have you come to see this misjudgement and mistreatment of so many who are quarreling with each other? There are so many good dealings and you have not acquired a position to remain in that layer? Then why? ‘I am responsible for all the undesirable things in me—that is a fact. My weak free will has taken me down into this present undesirable environment and no one else is responsible.’
This fact you are to realise. If you ignore this, then you are in maya—misconception, illusion. When you sincerely realise this position, then your dark days will come to an end. When you feel that only you yourself are responsible for all this miserable things, then good days will awaken for you. This is the fact. It is not an imaginary conception to take help of in order to get out of the present condition. It is not like that; it is a fact, it is for everyone whether good or bad—I am responsible for my condition.
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