Your influence is your value

The Lords of Karma register very carefully the influence people have on others. A man or a woman is a continuous influence for good or for bad.

Suppose you are an actor and you are impressing upon the minds of people how to commit crimes, smoke, use alcohol, kill, use foul language, and so on. Here, ten million people are watching you, and out of that ten million, eight million are strongly impressed to imitate you in their lives. How and by what means will you be able to clear your karma when all these people will add to the account of your karmic liabilities with their crimes?

This means that you will continuously be responsible for what they are doing and will do because of your influence. How are you going to pay your debt to such people? Thus all those who are influencing multitudes because of their position and talents must be careful not to lead people to a dead-end street or into a path leading to destruction. On the other hand, you can create a steady karmic income eternally by influencing people's lives toward perfection.

We not only influence people by what we think, say, and do, but we also influence them by what we do not think, do not say, and do not do. Your influence is your value. You did not kill a person, but you did not prevent a person from killing. Sometimes people are more guilty in not doing than in doing something. In the future we will have laws that will consider things you did not think, words you did not speak, and actions you did not take that hurt people or led them into confusion or danger.

Our progress on the path of perfection is assisted by the inspiration and impressions we give to people to walk toward beauty and light. In the darkest time of our lives such influences come out of our subconsciousness and turn into leading lights on our path.

You must be somebody in order to make another person or persons somebody. You cannot lead people by what you are not. People always need to look up to a hero. When heroes disappear from our life and schools,  corruption and crime take their place. You must be an image in the memory of people for inspiration, courage, and striving. They may forget your help and your words, but they will never forget the example that you demonstrated in critical times in their lives, assisting them to overcome their troubles and limitations. Such images are blessed images that travel with us into infinity. Before he crosses the threshold, every person must feel in his heart the joy that he became a good influence in life and a way for others to achieve.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer