Spiritually right, worldly wrong? Or both wrong?

[donq]

Yesterday, I went to my bank to transfer some money. After a bank employee finished doing it for me, she asked me to evaluate her service. I never liked this kind of thing. Once I saw some employees of one of the eye glasses store dancing in the uniforms on the footpath! They looked so terrible. Not because they could not dance well (they danced pretty good!) but they felt so embarrassed. And it was very hot out there! How could that dance invite much more customers? What was the connection between a dance and a customer's decision to have a new glasses? What was the owner of that glasses store thinking?
Back to the bank, there was an emoticon pad on the counter for me to press (from mad to very big smile). She told me, "Please pressed the big smile to evaluate my performance". Though I knew she indirectly led me but I pressed on the big smile emoticon anyway. I did that just because I didn't like this way (of the bank's owner). And that was the reason why I become a freelancer for more than 15 years. :-)
Did I do the right thing? My evaluation might help her, more or less, to keep her job, but how about others bank employees? And other customer? If I helped the wrong person, that means some good bank employees night lose their jobs and the future customers of that bank might suffer her bad service/performance? On the spiritual point of view, I just wanted to help other human I met, if I could, one person at a time. But on the worldly point of view, I helped the wrong person (though her performance was not bad, still didn't deserve that big smile emoticon).  Besides, she was using me by using her indirect suggestion.
Or I was both spiritually and worldly wrong? hahaha  

[sparklekaz]

Hi Monty,

Your description of the glasses shop employees dancing outside made me smile. I guess the owner wanted to attract more customers by grabbing peoples attention, and it got yours didn't it, so it worked.

I don't like being coerced into doing something I wouldn't have done voluntarily. I don't mind being asked to fill in a questionaire and giving an honest opinion about service. But being told what to put.. no! Having said that I'm guessing the young lady in the bank was polite and served you efficiently, so saying you were happy with the service wasn't a lie. But what would you have done if she'd been abrupt and rude? I think you would not have clicked the smiley face. Because to do otherwise would have been dishonest to yourself wouldn't it.

Your thoughts about consequences of your actions, I can relate to. This is something I think about a lot. Do you think the more spiritually aware we become, the more we think about the consequences of our actions? For me personally this has been the case. And oh dear, it is so difficult thing. It makes me so anxious. I try to tell myself, I am no 'seer'. I cannot see into the future. There are so many possible outcomes to our actions. How can we know! This part of my spiritual growth does not empower, liberate or make me stronger. In some ways I feel it makes me weaker. Indecisive, fearful. Do you or anyone else ever feel like this?

Love and light
Kaz

[krsnaraja]

Material growth to me , from boyhood to adulthood, is when we ultimately achieve our individual material goals in life e.g. a happy home, a successful job, health and wealth. Spiritual growth is the opposite. Gradually, we renounce these attachments which are burden to atomic souls when they transmigrate from one body to another body in the next life. You would not want to remember your past life in the present, would you? That's why we read of people remembering their past lives. They were suppose to have renounced these attachments as they grew in their spiritual lives. The more spiritual one becomes the more he is detached from material life. Even to the extent of not wearing a dress or underwear. Some even go naked. For example, St Francis of Assisi and Sukadeva Goswami

[donq]

Hi Karen,

Ah! yes, you were right, it worked. It got my attention, indeed. hahaha

But what if she was old, ugly and rude. Would I still clicked the smiley face. Hmm...I honestly don't know. Partly because I'm a man (it's not good to fight with any woman, especially an old one, right? :-), and partly because my spiritual practice. If, and only if, I was sure that I would click a mad face (emoticon) because of her bad service, not my anger, then, and only then, I might do that. Kidding. Wasn't it said in Bible, "Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also?" The point is that it's so hard to tell when we did something, we did it becuase we wanted to right the wrong thing or just because our ego (love/hate etc.) So it's better not to do the wrong thing at all, right?
I do understand what you said about consequences of our actions. Oh dear, it is so difficult thing, like you said, indeed!
Anyway, sometimes I had to try so hard not to think too much. Because it could not make any good. And it was not good for my health either. hahaha  
Like the following story I read long time ago:
A man walked along the seashore with his grandson. As they passed beached starfish, the boy picked them and tossed them back into the ocean. The old man protested, "The beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of starfish. What you are doing won't make any difference..."
The boy looked at the starfish in his hand, gently threw it into the ocean, and said, "It will make a difference to this one."