Actions

🌹Que -Quite often it is necessary to take strong action but as you say this should be done with mettā and compassion. On such occasions, if mettā and compassion are not generated should one then take no action? If this is done then the wrong doer could be encouraged. What should be done in such situations?

Guruji-Never encourage injustice. One has to oppose injustice but with the base of mettā and karuṇā. If you oppose somebody without this base then don't justify it. Understand that this was my defect. Next time any such thing happens I shall try to generate mettā and karuṇā and oppose with that base. If you keep on justifying your mistake you can't rectify yourself.

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Que -Can you talk about the mechanism of transference of merit? If the person receiving the merits didn't have the volition to do the good deed, can they absorb the merits?

Guruji: If somebody is thirsty and you offer water but this fellow does not make a cup (with his hands) to take the water-he keeps his hands (open), it falls out-what can be done? There must be some volition on the part of the person to take the share of the merits. If one is not accepting those merits then it is meaningless. Suppose you give mettā to someone and one is not accepting, one is not receptive: you are like a broadcasting station, but this person's receiver is not good enough to receive. It is a waste. But still, one who gives should keep on giving. If one who receives is not capable of receiving it, it is the problem of that person. But if one receives, one is capable of receiving, then certainly it helps.