[00:00:00] I wanted to share a thought on kindness and how you treat other people. So when I went through my spiritual awakening, I thought that probably now I will be much more open and, more caring and kind and what not towards people. You know what did I observe? I started seeing that I had closed my mind to people’s toxicity when I was not spiritually awakened.
[00:00:30] But the moment I was awakened, I started noticing the toxic behaviors in people. Things, which I did not think toxic before. I suddenly started noticing those things. And I’m like- “how did I tolerate these kinds of nonsense for so long”?
[00:00:46] All those people who have closed their eyes to reality and preaching that- “oh, we should be nice and kind to everybody”. You are wrong. There is God in everyone. I had been practicing fairness, kindness, and all those good things with others. And you know what happens when you are practicing kindness with a person whose God is sleeping within him or her? When they haven’t been spiritually awakened or when they have not opened their eyes to the reality of things? If I’m interacting with an asshole or a bully, and if I’m practicing kindness, can you predict what the outcome would be?
[00:01:32] It would be a total disaster because these people have not awakened the God in them. If your third eye has not opened, and if you are going to continuously behave and act like asshole, which hurts other people, then you have to be treated like one.
[00:01:50] So if you are practicing kindness with assholes, then you are doing it all wrong. When you are being nice with the person who is displaying toxic behavior, you are sending a signal to that person that- “that is okay. That kind of behavior is okay. I will accept it. And hence I will not protest it. I will either silently tolerate it. Or ignore it as if I haven’t seen it. Or I’m just going to still be nice and kind, and try to explain things to you”.
[00:02:20] So an asshole would not realize that that kind of a behavior is not acceptable. So there are two kinds of assholes. The ones that are doing it deliberately. And the ones that are not doing it deliberately.
[00:02:31] In both the situations, if you don’t call out on that nonsense, if you don’t speak up, or if you don’t say that whatever you’re doing is not acceptable- it’s not going to work. They are not going to change the behavior.
[00:02:48] Why do you think there are so many police officers and law enforcers?
[00:02:52] If everybody could be talked down by just niceness and kindness, would we really require law enforcers? No, right? There are rapes happening in the world. There are robberies happening in the world. There are forced entries into homes. Why are these things happening? Should we close our eyes and say that- “oh no, we just talk with niceness and kindness with everybody. And everybody will listen”.
[00:03:17] If that was the case, then we would have not needed law enforcers. We would have needed some spiritual teachers to go and talk to these people and they would have just stopped doing things. Because the reality has both beauty and ugliness. So let’s accept it the way it is.
[00:03:35] It is okay to defend yourself. It is okay to fight back when somebody is crossing your boundaries, violating your rights. It is okay to get back with force to people whose gods have not awakened. Because the only way you can awaken them is to say- “stop”.
[00:04:00] This nonsense has to stop. Enough is enough. And if you continue doing these, these are the ultimatums”. Only that way, things will change. That’s the only way.
[00:04:13] So if you are in, if you’re not sure whether you should fight back to somebody who’s bothering you, if somebody is causing you stress or pain, or making you put up with things you don’t want to put up with,… this is your time. This is your time to speak up.