The fourteenth session of the 57th round of Congress60' educational workshops was held on January 18 2017 at 11:30 a.m. The agenda was "the difference between a righteous action and seemingly good action". Master Dezhakam was the master and Ms. Fateme acted as the secretary.
Master Dezhakam: hello, I am Hossein, a traveller. I am well and hope you are well too. The difference between a righteous action and seemingly good action is that a righteous action will result in prosperity while a seemingly good action will result in badness, illness and evil. Sometimes, we do something in anticipation of being good to do, while they result in evil. We have found out that the begging children whom you see in the streets are working for a gang. These children are hired to beg and collect money for them. You may think that they are in need of money for their own life and you help them, while this is a seemingly good action which results in supporting the criminals. If you want to help the addicts, do it; but do not reproach them.
Doing the righteous action is a very difficult job to do, and you have to do many prerequisites. You cannot claim that you have done the righteous action unless you had considered many things. Identification of the righteous action is very difficult. You cannot do the same thing in different situations. Today, parents think that their children must decide on what to do, what to eat and where to travel; while this is not a righteous action. Because the result of these actions is spoiled generation who will get addicted. Parents think that they are the only men and women that are gifted as parents; that is why when their children avoid communicating, the parents become sad and think their child has gone depressed! Parents are kind but society is harsh! Itbis like a situation where a tiger is born in your house, and after a while, you put it in the jungle. What happens to it? It is caught by other animals
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Another seemingly good action is our wrong nourishment. Our air is polluted and our nourishment is not appropriate. Today, all people are using fast-foods. Today no one eats healthy food. Nowadays, no one eats sesame-extract which is a very nourishing food. In the past people ate sesame and grape or date extract together. It is very useful for the digestive system and it is full of vitamin E. It is a very strengthening food. Champions do use this food which is full of vitamins and minerals. This is the difference between the righteous and seemingly good actions. Eating pizza and lasagna is not a righteous action. We should have a very strong basis for deciding what is righteous and what is seemingly good. This underlying stone is referred to as "good thought, good words and good deeds" in our ancient Iran.
If we want to have righteous thoughts, we should have a pure heart. Some people are ill-hearted. The thoughts are not purified, unless the heart (the senses) is purified. So long as the heart is full of hatred, anger, revenge, and cruelty, we will never have righteous thinking. If we want to purify our thinking, we have to purify our heart. All the creatures and human beings must be important to us. Their success or pain must be important to us. If a person is suffering from anything, we must care! Streets must be important for us, we should not dirty the streets and environment. That is, our heart must be purified. We should purify ourselves so that our heart becomes healthy. We should avoid the anti-values, so that our heart becomes bright. When a person is ill-hearted or black-hearted, s/he is suffering most. A person with lots of anger or hatred is annoying him/herself. All the anti-values destroy the person most. Therefore, if you want to do the righteous actions, you should do the prerequisites. You should love people around you. Last night, I was watching an American movie in which a person was begging love, he was saying I pay you money, but the only thing I want in return is this: "please love me"! Human beings are striving for being loved. Human beings are in need of love. Therefore, if you want a bright heart, you must love people. When God wants us to avoid anti-values, it is not for our punishment, but because the Almighty wants us to learn (how to live in peace).
If we desire to reach the righteous action, we should learn the knowledge and practice it, we all are in need of them. We are all learning and practicing the knowledge continuously, all the Congress60's members are writing the CDs (to learn this knowledge), that is why we do not accept the illiterates. When a person cannot write, he will bother other members. According to Holy Quran, the righteous action must be linked to kindness and love. They must be together, if we want to be in peace and calmness. As the fifth valley asserts, the knowledge must be put into action, without practicing what we know, we will achieve nothing. In our life, if we undergo some difficulty, we will gain better results. The righteous action is to save a part of our earned money. Our wisdom tells us that if you want to lend some money to your friend, you must take a receipt. A seemingly-good action is to give your money without any receipt; however, the righteous action tells you although s/he is your fiend or sister, you must take a receipt. The righteous action tells you that if you are dealing in with your friend, you should consider a day when your intimacy is blurred, then you have to consider everything as you sell or buy or lend anything to your friend or family members.
Translator: Elahe Sadeghi
