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Though very few, I have found certain verses which help me
tremendously in my practical life while interacting with others. Ever since I
read Mathew 12:35, I have not asked the questions such as why they did this to
me, why did she say this to me, why was I insulted … and so. It is a fact that
when we give same degree of love to many people we receive varying responses
from each one of them. Same school, same teacher, same syllabus—yet responses
of students vary. Jesus got support and help from unexpected ones, from “many
women” when he was being falsely tried and taken to the site of death sentence
(Mathew 27:55, 56, 61) whereas the expected ones, “72 disciples” he trained
(Luke 10:1) did not come forward. Interestingly, Jesus had already declared
there is no basis for expected action/reaction from others because each person
acts according to his delight/passion: “A good person produces good things from
the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the
treasury of an evil heart.” (Mathew 12:35) In psychology we say people
act/react according to the compulsion from things buried in our sub-conscious
mind. Just like each TV Channel has its own passion (some are for news, some
are for entertainment, some are for wrestling, some are for science, some are
for nature, animals, spirituality …etc) each individual has his own
taste/delight and activities; they cannot be the same as those of another. This
realization is a great freedom and relief because we come to know that we are often
not the object of others’ action, but we just happen to be the recipient of
their action because we happen to be around them. They would behave the same
way with anybody around them.
