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How can 'Love all. Serve all.' be applied to the people who harmed me?

[An online spiritual discussion was conducted on Datta Jayanti Day i.e., December 07, 2022, in which several devotees participated. The questions of devotees answered by Swāmi are given below.]

[Smt. Anita Renkuntla asked: PaadaNamaskaaram Swamiji, First of all, Thank You Swamiji for the grace You are showing upon me in both happiness and sufferings and do forgive me for my mistakes. I have a few questions to clear from You. Do enlighten me.

AMMA and Satya Sai Baba say to love all and serve all. By reading this itself, we get positive vibes. But in our daily lives, we come across some people or relatives who have already done harm or humiliation which pricks us a lot. It is hard to develop a good corner for them. How should the above quotation be applied?]

Swami replied:- When God comes in human form to the earth, even devotees insult God (Avajānanti Mām… Gita) due to ego-based jealousy based on repulsion between common human media. In order to remove the anger and hatred towards the contemporary human incarnation, elders have introduced a training program of loving and serving humanity that removes hatred towards co-human beings so that at least the minimum positive attitude is developed towards the contemporary human incarnation. The purpose of the program is forgotten and people believed that the program itself is real and started serving humanity thinking that every human being is God (Mānavasevaiva Mādhava sevā). Social service masked the background so that social workers forgot the real basic concept for which only the program is framed. If every human being is God, why did the Gopikas run to Krishna when they have God in their house in the form of husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, children etc? If every human being is God, why did Krishna advise Arjuna to kill the Kauravas, who are God only? Now, you have understood the concept with its background. There is no harm if you are not serving your relatives who humiliated you and you can even fight with your relatives if they are really wrong.

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