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276. The Reward of Loyalty

In the sixties a worker joined a team of people collecting manure. He was paid one rupee a day. He was young, full of energy, resourceful in work. Soon he became the leader of the group. Agriculture work offers no scope for labourers on daily wage. He was posted as a watchman on the same salary.  Communities are known for different attitudes. Families of blacksmiths will be extremely skillful. So are the carpenters to a lesser degree. Certain communities among the working class have distinguished themselves for utter loyalty to the master. Other communities are there where loyalty is of no value. Some other communities set store by pilfering. Perhaps each has its own swabhava.

Luck gravitates to a man who denies himself the privilege of the defects of his family or caste. Great luck is in store for one who exhibits the attitudes of a higher community.  This watchman was actuated by a sense of loyalty, a value not espoused by his family. That was his value. That VALUE in him began to translate itself into Prosperity in his life. Loyalty in him was so great that all other defects, errors, and crimes were overcome by this value. He was a leader of men. About forty to fifty people were happy to carry out his behest.

Circumstances changed. His master left the town; he sought other avenues. As he left the town, one of his closest friends, an elderly politician desired to take back the house he had sold to the Master of the watchman. Out of friendship, no document had been made or receipt written. The buyer of the house, out of sheer good manners, had trusted the politician. The politician now had other ideas and wanted the house back as if he had simply rented it. The politician approached this watchman and asked him to use his band of men to vacate the house so that he could take it over. As the watchman had left his Master some years before and was from a community not known for its loyalty, the politician counted on this watchman's help. The loyalty in the watchman reared its head. He not only refused to do the bidding of the politician, but warned him against vacating his former master's house.  Years later, news came that that watchman had prospered and is now wealthy, owning a Maruti van.

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  • Acknowledgement by the Author
  • Introduction
  • 201. Fear of Death
  • 202. Lending Money to a Friend
  • 203. Romance is the Adventure of Consciousness
  • 204. 'The Last Englishman to Rule India'
  • 205. Science of Life
  • 206. Darshan in the Subtle Plane
  • 207. Prosperity not Austerity
  • 208. A Further List of Spiritual Truths in Life
  • 209. "The Hound of Heaven"
  • 210. The Significance of the Insignificant
  • 211. What Do We Mean by Taking to the Spirit?
  • 212. Self-Giving
  • 213. Knowledge is Power
  • 214. The Upanishads
  • 215. Greater Mastery of Human Life
  • 216. Failure Leads to Greater Success
  • 217. The Life Divine
  • 218. Demand for Proof
  • 219. Incommunicable JOY
  • 220. Invisible Profits
  • 221. Profits in a Small Business
  • 222. Income of the Family
  • 223. Positive Value of the Negative Person
  • 224. Increasing Accomplishment
  • 225. Proverbs of Tamil Nadu
  • 226. Unconscious Oblivion
  • 227. Pieces of Good Fortune Come Together
  • 228. Why Good People Suffer
  • 229. The Children of The Mother
  • 230. Letters of Love
  • 231. Problem–Free Life
  • 232. Human Potentialities and Actualities
  • 233. The Indian Mind
  • 234. The Leaders of the World
  • 235. Tyranny and Fairness
  • 236. Teaching and Learning
  • 237. SMILE
  • 238. Surface Mind and the Subliminal Depth
  • 239. Token Practice
  • 240. Token Act - Psychological
  • 241. The English are Wedded to Democracy
  • 242. Coconut Never Falls on a Man
  • 243. Proposal
  • 244. Efficiency
  • 245. Spirit in Action
  • 246. Interruption of a Speech
  • 247. Chronic Illness
  • 248. Accomplishment of Indians Abroad
  • 249. The First Waking Thought
  • 250. Worry is Absence of Faith
  • 251. Falsehood Prospers
  • 252. Choice Helps to Invoke the Spirit
  • 253. The Power of the Press
  • 254. Spiritual Transformation
  • 255. Yawning
  • 256. Problem Solving by the Spirit
  • 257. Reaching the Higher Consciousness
  • 258. The Greatness of the Birthday for the Great
  • 259. Positive and Negative
  • 260. Building up India
  • 261. The Politician and the Administrator
  • 262. Good Will Towards the Spirit
  • 263. Overriding Personality
  • 264. Home is a Centre of Personality
  • 265. Tenfold Expansion in Ten Years
  • 266. Back Pain
  • 267. What is Left Unsaid
  • 268. Product of Prosperity
  • 269. Marriage is Essential
  • 270. Prestige and Prosperity
  • 271. Wealth Lies in Self-Employment
  • 272. Incentives to National Prosperity
  • 273. Education is an Instrument of Prosperity
  • 274. Levels of the Spirit Emerging in Man
  • 275. The Many Ways in which the Spirit Comes to Us
  • 276. The Reward of Loyalty
  • 277. The Different Aspects of Spiritual Power
  • 278. Subtle Inversion
  • 279. The Causal Plane
  • 280. God Proposes; Man Disposes
  • 281. The Great Indian Dream
  • 282. Psychic Sadness
  • 283. "Count Your Chickens Before They are Hatched"
  • 284. December 28, 1928
  • 285. Out of Dust
  • 286. Ambition Versus Achievement
  • 287. Where the Spirit is Helpless!
  • 288. Spiritual Courage
  • 289. Mathematical Formula of Life
  • 290. "After all, I am a Useless Person"
  • 291. The Value of OIL
  • 292. The Various Strengths of Human Nature
  • 293. A Bi-Monthly Magazine for Spirituality
  • 294. The Prince and The Pauper
  • 295. The Essence of Enduring Success
  • 296. Authority of Love
  • 297. Validity of a Contract
  • 298. This Once
  • 299. Indira Gandhi's Question
  • 300. Spiritual Equality
  • Appendix 1: How to Invoke the Spirit
  • Appendix 2: Invocation of the Spirit
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