24-11-2020
The ingrate is the person who is in the perpetual state of ingratitude—who is constantly ungrateful and complaining. Today in American and in the Western world we see a proliferation of ingrates all around us.
What makes a person an ingrate?
When the person’s basic attitude in life is that of a victim who evades self-responsibility, expecting things to be given instead of earning them through self-effort, then the person is bound to become an ingrate.
When you make an effort to attain what you want, you realize how much cooperation you need from the rest of the universe. You realize that you need forces beyond you in order to earn, obtain, and attain what you want.
It is your attunement to the universe and receptivity to such cosmic forces that put you in the state of flow and make your effort effortless. Therefore, you feel naturally grateful for the gift of the universe from the universe.
The ingrate, because he/she does not make the necessary effort, fails to have the experience of receiving the gift from the universe. Thus, there is nothing in his/her experience for which he/she can be grateful. Thus, the vicious circle of ingratitude and complaint ensues and continues.
The truth is that ingrates do not really know what they really want. They are programmed to be out of touch with themselves and with reality. What they think they want comes from their conditioning, their conditioned mind, not from their soul.
Their life thus becomes de-souled and they become soulless. They want what they want without passion and meaning. Their wants are conditioned and imposed, albeit internalized. There is no freedom because they live a life of external coercion and internal compulsion.
A high percentage of ingrates are well educated in the sense of schooling, and hence more indoctrinated and programmed. They are emotionally stupefied and become mentally stupid despite their education and intelligence.
So long as they remain ingrates they can never achieve real happiness and joy. If some of them are lucky, there will come a time of reckoning and they will start honest self-examination. They will start liberating themselves from social programming, psychological conditioning, and educational indoctrination. Then, they will be able to begin the process of re-ensoulment.
If they are indeed lucky . . .