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10 dicembre Be Blissful! (Part II)(Continued from Part I ...)
If you deeply analyze how we connect our thoughts instead of renouncing them, you will understand how we create suffering for ourselves. It is the mind that finds the connection. As such, there is no connection between our thoughts.
We have been trained to feed on words and thoughts. That is why we create these shafts. We feed on words because we operate our of fear or greed all the time. Out of fear or greed, we create connectivity in our thoughts. We are afraid to let go of this process because if we let go, there is nothing else to hold on to. We have never experienced an unclutched state of mind where there is no shaft, only bubble-like thoughts.
In the unclutched state, there is no scope for fear or greed. You will simply BE, thats all. But it becomes difficult to understand that we can exist without this shaft of thoughts.
A small story:
An eye specialist was treating a blind man. He assured him, "Once I operate your eye, you will have your vision back, and you can throw your stick away."
The blind man became afraid when he heard this. He asked the doctor, "I understand that I will get my vision, but how can I walk without my stick?"
The man was so used to walking with the stick that he could not understand that by getting his vision, he could throw away the stick! In the same way, when the truth is that we can live in an unclutched fashion blissfully, we wonder how. We see clutching thought shafts as inevitable!
We fail to see how mythical the whole thing is. Our mind is a myth. We have empowered it and become a slave to it, that's all. It nothing but mental slavery.
Another small story:
There was an old man in a family who could not be pleased at any cost. He remained stubborn and grumpy, no matter how much his family tried to keep him in good spirits. His children and grandchildren would visit and try to cheer him up, but in vain. Suddenly one day, he became very gentle and cheerful. His family was shocked by the sudden transformation. One of his granddaughters asked him courageously, "Grandpa, how come you have changed so suddenly?" The old man replied, "All my life, I tried my best to get a contented mind, but never succeeded in getting it. So I have decided to be contented with it now."
Just see the play of the mind! Your mind can make or break you. That is why we need to be free from it.
Just watch the thoughts rising in you. Clearly see how each thought rises and dies and the next thought comes up. Observe how you effortlessly connect these thoughts and create ideas and concepts. Watch the play of these concepts upon yourself; you will understand how you create the whole myth. I tell you: Connecting thoughts is the Original Sin.
Living in an unclutched fashion is the way to a blissful living. Just decide that you will not connect any two thoughts, that you will not pass any judgment on any thought or incident.
When you work in an unclutched fashion,you will find your capacity expanding; you will take on a lot more responsibility without getting stressed; you will not experience mood swings between pain and pleasure; you will be blissful all the time. We are so used to happiness that comes with a reason. This reason is again a shaft that we create with our thoughts. Once you stop creating these shafts, you will be blissful all the time.
- Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Be Blissful! (Part I)Man, by his very nature, is an unclutched and blissful being. What do we mean by the term unclutched? Let me explain.
Every thought that arises in us is like a bubble that forms, rises and dies. Every thought independently rises and dies before the next thought comes up. For example, if you are sitting in a chair and suddenly get up, the moment you have decided to get up, that moment the thought of sitting has left you. If you are working on your computer and decide to shut down the machine, that moment, the thought that you want to work has died. So every thought is unconnected nad happens in series, one after the other. One thought has to die before the next one comes up. This is our true nature.
Our true nature is to renounce thoughts every passing moment. By the word renounce, I mean simply allowing each thought to rise like a bubble and burst and allowing the next thought to rise. Our thoughts have only a vertical existence, like rising bubbles.
This process of allowing thoughts to rise and die without trying to connect themis what we mean by being unclutched. As long as this natural process is allowed to happen, things are all right.
But what we do is, we start connecting these thoughts randomly and form a shaft. By doing this, we convert the vertical and unclutched process into a horizontal one with linear connectivity. Here starts the whole problem. As long as each thought is allowed to rise and die, we can take on any amount of load at the physical and mental planes and our consciousness will remain light and blissful. Once we start connecting thoughts, our consciousness suffers and we start feeling burdened. It becomes damaging to our being.
All emotions like worry, lust, discontentment, jealousy, fear, ego and attention, are purely because we find a connection between independent incidents, between independent thoughts, and create a concept for ourselves and start relating with that concept. We create an imaginary shaft with our thoughts and we suffer because of this.
These emotions create all forms of violence, be they religious wars, social conflicts or political unrest. The basis or root of all forms of violence is our emotions and the basis of our emotions is our habit of creating imaginary shafts of our thoughts and empowering them to work on us. For example, the incident that caused worry in us 10 years ago, the incident that caused worry in us 1 year ago, the incident that caused worry in us 1 month ago and the incident that worried us today are all separate, unconnected incidents or thoughts. But we connect these separate, unclutched thoughts and create an imaginary shaft and label our life as worry-filled. We relate to this concept, and start suffering.
When creating these shafts, we choose the thoughts depending on whether we want pain or pleasure. We pick pleasant thoughts at random and connect them to form a shaft of pleasure or pick negative thoughts and connect them to form a shaft of pain. We create shafts of pain and pleasure alternately for ourselves, and oscillate between these two emotions. To unclutch from this tendency is the master key to a blissful life.
(To be continued...)
- Paramahamsa Nithyananda
29 settembre Happiness without reasonTwo friends met after a long time. They decided to have lunch out. One was an actor, the other a psychiatrist. They were talking about what they had been doing after they had left college.
The actor was a very happy man. He said, "I have never been worried about anything. By God's grace, I am happily settled in life."
The psychiatrist was listening. He asked, "How long have you been like this??"
Happiness is categorised with other emotions. We try to frame it in space and time. We cannot understand the emotion when someone says that he is happy! It is difficult for us to believe him.
Great happiness and joy is ours. Enlightened masters are in this state all the time.
Happiness is the core of existence, of nature that surrounds us. But man somehow needs a reason to be happy.
If we are successful in say, business today, we are happy. Then again if someone says something nice about us, we are happy. If we visit new places, we are happy.
But the moment you need a reason to be happy, it means that you do not know what real happiness is.
We choose to suffer because our ego is solid. When we are happy, our ego is threatened.
When we are happy without a reason, when there is no suffering, the ego is under threat. So we go back to our suffering. The ego revives. We believe there is a reason to live when we suffer.
Of course, each one of us has problems. But if you deal with them happily, in a grateful and prayerful mood, you will find that the problem simply disappearing in front of your eyes. But if you allow the problem to make you dull and depressed, you will remain in this mood.
Real happiness is the result of overflowing gratitude in oneself towards nothing in particular. You may be grateful towards the Whole, towards Existence. This is real happiness; this is bliss.
This kind of happiness is happiness without choice.
The moment you are allowed to choose, you will choose between happiness and sorrow.
But to have no choice is Bliss. To choose is to suffer.
Real happiness can never be taken away from you because it came without reason. If there is a reason behind happiness then something can happen, and can be taken away from you. But because it has no reason, bliss can never be taken away from you.
When you have found this kind of happiness, you have found the way to permanent happiness.
- Paramahamsa Nithyananda 15 settembre Do not postpone living. Celebrate!A man after having lost his wealth, prayed to God and got a boon that from dawn to disk on the following day, whatever land he covers by running can be owned by him.
The man started running at dawn and kept running even after he covered more than what he lost. He refused to heed his body's pleas for rest and food. His mind was filled with thoughts of the land owned by his neighbors and relatives. By evening, he felt dizzy and weak. In the distance, he saw a burial ground and a river flowing beyond it. He was very happy at the thought of owning a river and a place where he and his progeny could be buried and decided that he would stop after he reached the river. Just as the sun was about to set, he reached the river.
He bent down to sip some water. The moment his lips touched the water, he dropped dead of exhaustion. They buried him in the burial ground that he had crossed!
This is how we all live our lives. We run the race without even stopping to think why we are running. We travel in the horizontal dimension of thinking "what next?" all the time. This is what causes us to run. As long as we are moving in this horizontal line, we will run till we drop dead in our grave. Travelling from more to more is only travelling towards our grave. It is just slow death! It can never be life.
It is possible to satisfy our needs, but it becomes impossible to satisfy our wants because, they are changing and unclear all the time. Every time one want is fulfilled, a hundred more come up.
Always, as long as we are chasing something, it seems that it is worth the whole world; but after we get it, somehow it is not important any longer! If we become aware of ourselves and understand what exactly we want, and try to do that alone, we will never find ourselves in this kind of self-contradictory and fragmented situation.
Never think, let me work now, I can enjoy later! I tell you, it will never happen. Every tomorrow comes in the form of today only. Doing should lead to being every moment: only then we are on the right track. It is now or never. We all run throughout our lives thinking we can enjoy later, but we land up running into the graveyard.
So don't postpone living. Celebrate! It is now or never!
Be blissful!
- Paramahamsa Nithyananda 26 luglio Responsibility is the way to goWhen you live with the attitude that you are responsible for everything, your whole life will change. When you take up responsibility for everything that happens around you, you will start expanding.
Expansion is the only growth; contraction is death. The more responsibility you take up, the more you will expand and grow. You will become a leader. Most of us wait for the status to descend on us and then take up the responsibility. Be very clear. Only if we take up responsibility, the status will come! People who wait for the status will not take up responsibility even after they get it. They will simply find another reason or excuse, that's all. The person who passes the buck and relaxes will never progress in life.
Responsibility is consciousness. The moment you feel responsible for what is happening around you, that moment the divine energy will rush into you! These are all basic secrets of life that I am giving you.
As long as you are self-centered, you will be nothing more than a blocked bamboo stick that serves only to carry the corpse. When you shed your ego and stand up with responsibility, you will become the hollow bamboo that serves as a flute! Like how the air that enters the flute leaves it as music, the air that enters you will flow as energy! When you work with no feelings of responsibility, you will work and feel like a slave. When you work with responsibility, your capacity will expand and you will flower and radiate energy. Your worries and sorrows will dissolve and all unfinished work will get finished. Umpteen excuses can be given for dodging responsibility, but they will remain poor excuses.
With responsibility, a new kind of joy will engulf you. You will become a natural leader and life will become a celebration. There is a beautiful story on Buddha: It is said that when Buddha goes to beg, he would appear as a King and the kings who gave him alms would appear as beggars! Seeming like a beggar or a king is not in the wealth that you hold but in the state that is within you. When you take up responsibility for the entire cosmos, you will expand and look like a leader.
Feeling that you are responsible is the greatest quality you can possess. When you stand up with a new sense of responsibility, a new intelligence will awaken in you!
Be Blissful!
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda 08 luglio Be Unclutched, Become FreeYour entire belief in rationality and logic is based on the premise that your thinking is sequential and it follows a pattern. This is a lie.
Buddhists say mind is a monkey. That's very true. Your thoughts are not sequential. Your thoughts are independent of each other. They are not connected. They are illogical and irrational. They are like the bubbles in a fish tank which appear connected; but there is no connection between one bubble and another. They are all independent.
Just try this. For a few minutes, truthfully, write down all your thoughts as they occur to you. When you read what you have written again, it will appear to you that what you have written is a madman's diary. Nothing will be connected, nothing will seem logical. You would have jumped from past to present, from future to past, all with no logical connection whatsoever.
It is only when you link thoughts to one another, when you try and provide a logical and rational sequence to thoughts with the help of your mind, you invite suffering. The pleasurable experiences or painful experiences that you have 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 2 years ago and yesterday and today are all independent of each other. They are unconnected. Yet you try and fit them in a pattern and then expect that pattern to repeat. This expectation leads to disappointment and all suffering.
Each thought that you have comes after another only when you have renounced the first one. Unless you renounce the thought of sitting, you cannot stand up. Unless you renounce the thought of standing, you cannot walk. This tendency to link thoughts and form a pattern is what creates your value systems and beliefs, your samskaras, the root cause of all your problems.
It is this pattern woven by the mind and not the ground reality that you experience, which drives your life. Connected thoughts are the foundation of all illusions and suffering. Once you drop the connection between thoughts, you can go to the source of thoughts, the truth of who you are, where you come from.
When you drop the connection between thoughts, you will then realize the futility of that connection except in causing you suffering. When you realize that thoughts arise in you at random and not in any sequence and are always unconnected, you then drop into the present. You become unclutched, you become free. You then regain your Self.
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
24 giugno Eat when you EatA Zen disciple asked his master: How did you change when you became enlightened?
The master replied: I now eat when I eat; I sleep when I sleep.
How many of us eat when we eat? We watch TV, read books and newspapers; if nothing else we gossip. We disrespect the food and it sits on our waist.
To be in the present is an impossible task for us; our mind flits from past to future, back and forth. Being in the ‘here and now’ helps transcend barriers of time and space so that one can be every where at all times. This is also the state of enlightenment, as the ego or mind breaks down at this point.
People leading a material life wish to be ascetics, sanyasins. They feel that they can realize happiness, peace of mind and calmness only by donning saffron robes.
In the Mahabharata, Vyasa tells us this beautiful story. A crow dirties a Sanyasin who is on his morning bhiksha (begging for alms). The Sanyasin looks up in anger and the crow burns to death. He then walks up with his bowl and stands in front of a nearby house. The lady of the house is serving her husband, and when she is finished comes out to attend the Sanyasin. The sanyasin looks at her in anger, and she asks: do you think I am a crow? Startled the Sanyasin asks her how she knows. He tells: I have no time to explain, please go to this man in the nearby town. The Sanyasin searches out this person in the town and finds out that he is the local butcher. When he goes to meet him, the butcher greets him cordially and enquires about the housewife. The Sanyasin is again surprised, and asks this butcher how two such ordinary people have this great power of divination. The butcher says simply: all we do is to do our duty well; that’s all we know.
Doing one’s duty, one’s dharma, well is the key to spiritual progress. That duty, that responsibility, can be your material life as well. It does not need to be the life of an ascetic that you force fit upon yourself. You need to be aware in what ever you do; you need to be 100% involved in whatever you do, for you to do your dharma well.
Stay in the present with whatever you do; when you take the next step; when you brush your teeth; when you smile at some one; just focus on what you are doing at that point in time. That’s true enlightenment. - From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
15 giugno Living life in realityIn his Yogasutra, Patanjali, the great sage, the greatest writer of them all, talks about eight ways to reach enlightenment. The second element in the first way ( yama) of Patanjali is brahmacharya. Normally this word is translated as celibacy. This is wrong; totally wrong. Celibacy is suppression; it leads to perversion. Brahma means existence, reality; chariya is to walk in it, to live with it; brahmacharya is living with reality.
People ask: to become enlightened, do I need to leave my wife and children? I tell them: renounce only what you do not have; do not renounce what you already have. Live comfortably, intensely, happily with what you have. If you have a wife, live fully with her; not with the fantasy of some other woman. Brahmacharya is the renunciation, the dropping your fantasies. Brahmacharya is accepting reality as it is. When you drop your fantasies and accept your beloved for what she is, your life becomes heaven.
The idea of beauty is just an idea. As long as distance is maintained, things look beautiful. Close-ups are always ugly and flat. Even if you marry the Miss Universe, the idea of beauty will not last more than 15 days. The moment you start living together, reality comes in; glamour wanes and fades. That's why you call the first few days honeymoon, not honey sun.
When you drop your fantasies, you can live with reality for ever. That's why in Sanskrit there is no word for divorce. If you feed your fantasies you can change your partner any number of times and still be unhappy. Only in fairy tales do people live happily ever after. All legendary lovers, Romeo and Juliet, Laila and Majnu, were never married; had they married, their stories would have had different endings.
People forcing themselves into celibacy are sitting on a volcano. They cannot look into your eyes for fear that you will see their suffering. If you meditate and practice celibacy, Hindu mythology says that the Gods above will send celestial beauties to disturb and bring you out of your meditation. The truth is that nobody sends women to disturb you; if that was the case, everyone will start meditating. These meditators of forced celibacy start hallucinating because of their suppressions, suppressed fantasies. Brahmacharya cannot be practiced as morality, but as an understanding. When you accept your partner as he is or as she is, your fantasies drop, and you start accepting yourself as you are. Your partner then becomes your beloved.
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
http://seattle.lifeblissprogram.org 19 aprile Drop what hurts and transform yourselfA Zen master was sentenced to death by his king, He was sitting unconcerned. His disciple asked him, “Are you not bothered you are going to die tomorrow? He said, “How can I worry about a day later, when even the next moment is a new miracle for me”.
When you live in the present, all your fantasies drop, all your fears drop. If someone complains that he cannot change, I say change is your nature. I am surprised you are holding on to the same character. Let go and you will change. When they don’t listen and insist, I give them advice to confuse them.
You say give me a technique. It’s so difficult without technique, a tool. The word difficulty is the greatest difficulty. When you know fire burns, drop the fire. Where is the difficulty? Be a little more intelligent. Drop what hurts. When you understand that the mental setup causes you trouble, drop it. You will then transform your being.
You ask, how will I survive if I drop? The seed always wonders what will happen to me if I break. Unless it breaks the plant cannot grow. Trust and open, trust and break, you will grow. If you make mistakes, it’s worth making mistakes. Perfectionism is madness. The more you are far from the perfect the more God has grace for you.
Search for perfection is search for madness. Graveyard is perfectly secure place. But it’s not the place to live; it is only for the dead. A ship is secure in the harbor, but it has to move out to function.
As you move from ego to spontaneity you will undergo pain, transition, that’s your penance. That is the price you pay for a better life. Everything will be a miracle. When you take life for granted, what results is boredom and depression. You seek to acquire, not to enjoy. You can increase the height of your bed not the depth of your sleep.
Meditation is the key to spontaneity. Do not keep track of what you have done in the past. It’s better to let go and grow without worrying about what happened in the past and also what will happen in the future.
Enlightenment is not a step by step growth process, it is a quantum phenomenon. Living moment to moment, in the present, without worrying about past and present is meditation. It’s a quality to be added to your life, not a quantity to be added to your life.
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
14 marzo Happiness is living in the nowFor many of us having more choice is a good thing. We believe we have more freedom and more freedom of choice. One of the choices that most people who come to me & are struggling with is to choose between material life and spiritual life. To such people, material life, which represents all that they have in life – physical, emotional, economic and intellectual – appears to bring them unhappiness. On the contrary, spiritual life is greener grass, which they do not have, and which seems to represent all that is missing in their life. I tell them they need not choose. They can, and should be all right leading both lives together.
Doing one's duty, one's dharma well is the key to spiritual progress. That duty, that responsibility, can be your material life as well. You need to be aware of everything you do; you need to be 100 percent involved in what ever you do, in order that you carry out your dharma properly. Being in the present is the key to awareness; awareness is the door that opens to bliss. To be in the present one needs to reach a "no mind" state - without thoughts. Once we reach this point the seeming contradiction of being in the spiritual space while straddling material space disappears.
Being in the ' here and now' helps to transcend barriers of time and space - one can become omnipresent. This is also the state of enlightenment as the ego or mind breaks down at this point. In Buddhism it is called a mindful state.
Many of us while we are eating are actually not eating. We do everything else but concentrate on the task at hand - eating. We talk, watch TV or read books of little attention to the food we consume. The food energy in turn pays very little attention on us. It turns into garbage and stays on our waist and hips instead of being the energy it should be. Stay in the present with what ever you are doing; when you take the next step; when you brush your teeth; when you smile at someone; try and concentrate on what you are doing at that particular moment in time.
You will be what the scriptures say a ' trikala jnani'; one who knows the past, present and future, one for whom the universe holds no secrets. You will be a Master of the Universe.
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
02 marzo Renounce what you don't haveA beautiful Zen story: Two Zen monks came to a river in spate. As they were about to cross, there came a young maiden who requested their help to cross the turbulent river. One of the monks without any hesitation lifted her in his arms and carried her across the river.
The monks then went on their way to a monastery nearby. After many hours the second monk exclaimed," I am disappointed with you. You should not have touched that woman." The first monk answered: “I put that woman down many hours ago. Why are you still carrying her?”
When you live in the present, you stop carrying the baggage of your past into your future, which guarantees misery. Many people come to me saying that they wish to renounce the life of a householder and become an ascetic, a sanyasin. They see the way I live in the bliss all the time, and think that once they too don saffron robes they will be blissful. Not so. I tell them, renounce what you do not have; there is no need to renounce what you already have. I tell them, Stop worrying about becoming a sadhu; a householder with no baggage on his spirit is far more likely to attain truth than a sadhu who has not still renounced what he does not have.
It is the desire for what one does not have: dreams, fantasies and the deep desires, that lead us into trouble. These then are the first list of baggage that needs to be discarded. Buddha said: Desire is the root cause of all sorrow. The desire that Buddha talked about is the desire for what we do not already have, what we do not need, what we can do without; desires that or not our own, but are born out of greed, fear, lust and jealousy. There is no end to desire. There is none amongst us who can truthfully say that once we achieve what we desire today, we shall be satisfied. Tomorrow is another day and brings forth more desires than what we had yesterday. Desire breeds desire; desires are never satiated upon fulfillment.
For most people material life is the way to live. Renouncing material life in search of an unknown spiritual is foolishness. What is needed is to reach the balance between material life and spiritual life that leads to enlightenment. This is possible and certain. We should live in the present. Living in the here and now, in space and time, within the boundaries of our own being guarantees enlightenment. Meditation is the key to being in the present- it leads you into enlightenment and bliss.
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
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Logout of your inner chatterMind is in constant inner chatter. It starts as soon as you wake up. If you record all your inner chatter you need a recorder for all your waking hours, say 15 hrs. All this chatter creates problems unconsciously. You are comparing yourself unfavorably with others. Of these 15 hours of tape, all spoken by you, why don’t you convert the chatter to give you positivism and freedom? No man is so poor that he cannot create words that create bliss. We are not poor in capacity, only in consciousness.
These 15 hours of tape are our karmic system. Ten hours say I cannot; only five say I can.
Reverse it: let at least ten hours of tape create freedom in you, to start with. When all 15 hours give you from freedom from chatter, you have reached liberation.
Now your mind is locked into one space, as an engineer, as a doctor, whatever, you cannot touch any other part. All of you are endowed with memory of past life, yet you do not recollect, why? That’s because you are so caught up in this life’s memory. If you can come out of, relax from, your mind, you can enter all sections of your mind. You can log in and log out. As of now you can only log in partly since you afraid of log out.
Is it possible to log out, walk out of inner chatter?
Asks Buddha: When you have the capacity to create, don’t you have the capacity to walk out?
Unconsciously you invite suffering. When everything is right you look for trouble. A guy living by a railway track is so used to the noise of trains that he wakes up if he cannot hear the sound. You are so habituated to the incessant inner chatter of worry if it stops you miss it. If your worries are reduced you lose your importance. This world runs not because of us, but in spite of us.
Let us be a little more intelligent and use words that liberate us instead of making us addicted. Napoleon on his deathbed told his subordinates: Place my hands out of the coffin so that people will know even the great Emperor Napoleon carried nothing with him when he left this world.
When you drop your cravings, they may get fulfilled. When you keep cravings even if they get fulfilled you are not content. Choose between filling and fulfillment.
- From the talks of Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
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07 dicembre Responsibility - the way to expand!When you live with the attitude that you are responsible for everything, your whole life will change. When you take up responsibility for everything that happens around you, you will start expanding. Expansion is the only growth; contraction is death. The more responsibility you take up, the more you will expand and grow. You will become a leader. Most of us wait for the status to come and then take up the responsibility. Be very clear - Only if we take up the responsibility, the status will come! People who wait for the status will not take up responsibility even after they get it. They will simply find another reason or excuse, that's all. An ordinary sweeper in an organization who takes up responsibility and performs his tasks can inspire an entire organization into becoming more responsible. The person who passes the buck and relaxes will never progress significantly in life. Responsibility is a Consciousness. The moment you feel responsible for what is happening around you, that moment the Divine Energy will rush into you! These are all basic secrets of Life that I am giving you. As long as you are self-centered, you will be nothing more than a blocked bamboo stick that serves only to carry the corpse. When you shed your ego and stand up with responsibility, you will become the hollow bamboo that serves as a flute! Like how the air that enters the flute leaves it as music, the air that enters you will flow as Energy! A cognitive shift will happen in you. Your mental setup will change. When you work with no feelings of responsibility, you will work and feel like a slave. When you work with responsibility, your capacity will expand and you will flower and radiate Energy. Your worries and sorrows will dissolve and all unfinished work will get finished. Umpteen excuses can be given for dodging responsibility, but they will remain poor excuses. With responsibility, a new kind of joy will engulf you. You will become a natural leader and life will become a celebration! There is a beautiful story on Buddha: It is said that when Buddha goes to beg, he would appear as a King and the kings who gave him alms would appear as beggars! Seeming like a beggar or a king is not in the property that you hold but in the state that is within you. When you take up responsibility for the entire Cosmos, you will expand and look like a leader! Feeling that you are responsible is the greatest quality you can possess. When you stand up with a sense of responsibility, a new intelligence will awaken in you!
My love and blessings to you to reach the state of Nithyananda or Eternal Bliss!
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