Harbors for resentment



From Eswaran:


"If we could interview a negative tendency, say, Resentment, it might say,




"I don't worry! I've been living safely in this fellow's mind for years. He
takes good care of me - feeds me, dwells on me, brings me out and parades me
around! All I have to do is roar and stir things up from time to time. Yes, I'm
getting fat and feeling grand. And I'm proud to tell you there are even a few
little rancors and vituperations running around now, spawned by yours truly!"


So he may think. But when you repeat the mantram, (and practice presence and detachment with self remembering and mindfulness) you are prying him loose. You are saying, in a way that goes beyond vows and good intentions, that resentment is not part of the real you. You no longer acknowledge its right to exist.


We use something genuine to drive out impostors that have roamed about largely through our neglect and helplessness.We move closer and closer to our divine Self, because these impostors, resentment and ill will, are no longer coming between us. "--E.E.




Ouspensky says that negative emotions can and should be sacrificed. Specifically he said: "man must sacrifice his suffering", meaning that we must give up or abandon our harbor for resentment, the selfish and constructed ego, in order to begin to live open and anxiety free lives.


There is a syndrome amongst the folk of the South where women(usually) will exercise a right to be "hurt"... describing emotional wounding...This emotional practice is similar to the harboring of resentment that I am seeking to describe.

We can harbor resentment, and most often in our interpersonal relationships, we do. I certainly have been guilty of it.

Also, I have seen this happen regularly within the context of church. ( Isn't that an irony?)


When we do harbor this type of negative emotion, we are limiting our own growth and spiritual evolution. We stunt and delay our own transformation into the free, 'abundant life- living' creatures that we were created to be, and are enabled to be by the Spirit.[Romans 12:2]

Where there is Christ, there is freedom. Oh, to be free from resentful emotions!

This is quite do-able, but in my experience, the Spirit of God through Christ is the catalyst for the enabling of our growing ability to effectively deal with it.


This is something I am praying for today.

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