If you dedicate all your efforts to benefiting those around you, without egotism and expectations, free from worry, your mind can rest peacefully and it will identify with the image of God within. When the mind is deluded by the ego a person thinks “I am the one responsible for doing that!” The truth is, your actions are completely a function of your God-given qualities combined with the influence of your upbringing, the society around you and the era in which you live. You haven’t done anything other than what your talent allows and what you have been taught by others. A person who realizes this can easily remain unattached to whatever the natural outcome of his or her actions are. But a person of realization should not try to convince someone who is still deluded by their attachment to their physical body of this fact. It will only bewilder them. Those who are still identified with satisfying their senses (which are subject to natural fluctuations) cling to the results of their activities for their happiness. They are doomed to suffer.
Not trying to convince others because it will confuse them is a great point! This is very helpful to know! :)
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