FLOWERS AND THORNS — The Creation Plan of God

For instance, a person abuses you, troubles you, and provokes you. In that case you have two ways of responding to them. One is the way of ‘tit-for-tat’. Just as you have been troubled, you do the same to the other person. You also abuse him, trouble him, and harm him. You are reacting to another’s provocation. Today’s world is like a jungle. We have flowers as well as thorns. In the world of ‘tomorrow’, the flowers and thorns will be separated from each other. The one who responds or retaliates in this manner develops a negative personality. He reaps the harvest of thorns in him. This personality becomes a thorny personality. He will rise up as a thorny personality in the world of ‘tomorrow’ and he will be cast in the jungle of thorns where he will spend his life eternally in grief and frustration. On the contrary, a person who responds in a positive manner to a negative behaviour is the one who was abused by others but did not abuse anyone. Others tormented him but he did not torment others. He was harmed, but he did not harm others. He was provoked by others, but did not provoke or retaliate against anyone. This is the man who lived like a flower amidst thorns. He built a personality like a flower within him. Such a personality will be given the opportunity to live in the Garden of flowers. In today’s world of thorns, what is the way of making a flowery personality? For this, nature provides us some living examples. The humble cow is one such example. The cow is an industry of nature. It is given grass from the outer world but the cow converts it, through its inner mechanism, into milk. Something similar is to be done by every man and woman in this world. Every man and woman has to continuously change the ‘grass’ into a form of ‘milk’. There are two major parts of human brain — the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. When a thought comes in the mind of man, initially, it appears in the conscious mind. Gradually, in due course, it reaches the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind of man is a part where every item is preserved forever but that is not in the grasp of man’s conscious mind. Whosoever wants to have a flowery personality will have to activate his mind whenever a negative item comes to his mind and convert it into a positive item. So that in the next stage