Overcoming The Subtle Desire For Revenge
Ask
yourself very honestly how many times in your life did you feel joy,
even a slight trace of it, when something negative happened with someone
who had harmed you or hurt you or insulted you in any way in the past.
When this impure form of joy, is seen inside you, even if it is at your
extremely subtle thought level (if not in your words or actions), you
need to remember that this is nothing but a feeling of subtle revenge.
It may not sound very nice, but this kind of joy is enjoying the pain of
others and is obviously an extremely low grade form of joy. Sometimes,
as a way of justifying our joyful revenge, we call it justice.
The
driving energy behind this kind of revenge is hatred or anger. It is a
feeling of: "I really enjoyed it when ‘when what they had done to me
came to them’ - I was so happy to see them suffer for what they had
done, this is their punishment … tit for tat." It is a type of joy that
only increases our accounts of negative karmas with the other person,
which as a result, increases our sorrow, instead of decreasing it,
although it may give us an impression for a while that it is decreasing
our sorrow. This kind of joy will only cause the radiation of a negative
form of energy to the other person, which will not only give pain to
the other person, but will also cause the radiation of the negative
energy of hatred from the other person to us that will never bring us
long term joy. Imagine someone meeting with an accident on the road and
in a lot of pain and instead of helping that person immediately we smile
at that person happy with what has happened to him or her. What energy
will such a person send us in return? This example is on a physical
level, but the same principle applies on a subtle level. So the next
time something like this happens in our life, we need to remind
ourselves only if we don’t have the slightest trace of joy inside us
that we can safely say that we are free from any desire for revenge,
even though it may be very subtle.
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