GREETINGS

Swamiji pranam it’s true that devotion and surrender are such beautiful ,purifying and uplifting emotions.But one thing I wanted to know really was that in this transactional world how do we be good to people and at the same time protect ourselves.Sometimes don’t we have to be mercilessly competitive.There are a few people in the outside world who see our goodness and unsuspecting behaviour as vulnerability and take advantage of that.It has happened to me at work and now I cannot just trust people without giving sufficient time with them.When we behave humbly with some people,they try to walk all over us and when we keep our distance from them they understand our true value. I am not trying to say all are like that ,there are truly beautiful people also who are true well wishers like our parents,teachers and spiritual gurus like you.But such negative interactions with people at work lead to negative thoughts which strengthen the negative forces in my life and dampens the positive energies and vibrations required for spiritual growth.It would be great if we had the inner strength to not let it affect us at all but somehow I am not able to get that mental strength maybe because of my own lack of trust in myself or my laziness