DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human PotentialShunya said: “If you want to help a guilt-ridden person, don’t act holy and pure around them. Everyone has a dark side, Be true, Be vulnerable. Be normal. Be human.” What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
This is good advice and reflects a teaching about being in divine alignment in what one does. So, much of human existence is about competition, being put on the spot, being tested, being challenged, being criticized and having to defend oneself, and then becoming tempted, in learning bad examples, to do the same to others when one is confident of having the higher ground, being more in the know, being right, and the other party being in the wrong, at least from one's perspective. But living on the receiving end of judgment and criticism, taking to heart the life lessons it represents, if one can return to divine alignment through healing, will then be in a position to do better for others than how they were treated and strive to be a good example in how to encourage others to do more, become more, and be better in all they do by nurturing that growth within them rather than delivering a litany of complaints. The latter is simply a condemnation and an indictment that will certainly put them on the defensive and cause a negative emotional reaction, embarrassment, humiliation, pangs of regret, and the pain of feeling like a failure. Or, in someone with an overactive ego, may simply make them angry and they might even turn on you with hatred, seeing you as an adversary more so than a corrective influence that could, at a minimum at least, be of value in pointing out errors and saving the person from themselves and their mistakes sooner, rather than later. Keep in mind that people who are flawed often realize that is so on some level and will feel intimidated and even ashamed in the presence of someone who does things better, who is a more accomplished and capable person. Rather than be inspired, they will feel diminished in the presence of someone who is stronger, more advanced, and shows more ability, so it is a lost opportunity to help a fellow human being to give them a leg up, so to speak, a helping hand, simple encouragement, and maybe a positive suggestion or two in how better to proceed rather than dominate them by outshining them. That will not raise them up but separate them further from what you profess to be, a higher standard and something to emulate. A show of ego always backfires because it will diminish the person presuming to feel superior and undercut their thesis in thinking they are top dog, so to speak, so there is a danger in overdoing basking in your assumed status in having arrived, having achieved a lofty perch, a state of excellence. While that might be true on one level and might well be duly earned and a justifiable source of pride, an act of self‑serving boastfulness or pridefulness, in parading one's presumed status being superior, will, in actuality, result in a lessening of others in reaction to the display and, as such, is a karmic misstep that will reduce that person in the end, as a consequence of bringing about negativity and an imbalance in the universe, as an end result.