Authenticity Book 16

The courage of being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, what others expect you to be for them and what you expect them to be for you is what is called śraddhā, Authenticity. Authenticity is you being established and responding to life from who you believe yourself to be ,who you believe yourself to be for others and what others believe you to be for them.

Living in your peak capacity in all the four identities, - INNER IMAGE mamakara - outer image ahankara -others image anyakara - life image svanyakara

aligning your life to all the four dimensions, and expressing your peak potential in all these four, is Authenticity, Śraddha!

When you practice shraddha, cosmos will grant to you anything you want, your life will become a possibility.

If authenticity is not continuously BEING Practiced, you cannot be a possibility, you are dead! Constantly make authenticity a practice, in your work, in your thinking, in your health! Constantly expand your thinking, constantly expand your perception!

Its not so hard to practice authenticity. You just need some time with yourself. Authenticity is a self complete technique, from the beginning to the end. It means bringing yourself out of the mood of powerlessness again and again. When you are powerless, feeling very agitated and uncomfortable, completely wash yourself with authenticity.

When you develop listening, you will not be able to carry inauthenticity in you. Unless you become authentic to listening, you will feel agitated, bored, irritated and try to jump to conclusions. A person who listens patiently without any tiredness to every speaker, is integrated he has found his authenticity. Only then he is able to effectively transmit the truth to others.

Constantly practicing authenticity brings you to the space of possibility. Śraddha or Authenticity continuously connects you with yourself and your highest possibility whether it is being a good speaker or a good listener. Life is for realizing that possibility. Life is for realizing the Self. Life is for realizing itself.

Authentically authenticating authenticity means again and again saying no to the mind which says "it is okay constantly fill yourself with authenticity, authenticity itself becomes a power. You have to make sure that authenticity gives you the power. It empowers you. It constantly gets you out of the space of powerlessness.

The power of passion and the power of patience both express in their extreme, only when you are authentic. Bring authenticity and the ability to stretch yourself to complete the anyakaras of everyone around you. Anyakara is what others feel about you, it is not a curse but a possibility for your expansion. Every time you raise yourself to others anyakara, every time you stretch yourself to fulfill others anyakara, you achieve completion.

When you authentically commit, so much of energy is sent to your body and mind, and your laziness pattern is broken. Whatever you commit will become your reality because that is what is in your inner space. When you commit that you are going to do it, the cosmos immediately sends energy to your body and mind and you do it.

The thinking based on dharma. Aligning all your thinking based on the cognition of the four principles—tattvas of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching is right thinking

It is neither difficult nor easy, but you have to do it! It is nothing but tuning yourself to a certain frequency. How tuning or changing a channel is neither difficult nor easy, it is a simple technique; same way, go on tuning your thinking to śraddha, authenticity. Always think about your thinking and align your thinking to authenticity

Living in your peak capacity, performing in your peak in all the four (mamakara, ahamkara, anyakara and svanyakara), expressing your peak potential in all the four, expressing your highest possible energy in all these four is authenticity.

Mamakara - what you feel as you inner image. Your own expectation about you is mamakāra or Inner Image. It is the inner idea and the experience you carry about yourself like—I am healthy, I am ugly, I am intelligent, I cannot tolerate hard work, I love people etc. But, the idea you carry about you is always less than what you project yourself to be for others!.

Ahankara - what you project you to others outer image The second identity is how you show or project yourself to others called ahaṁkāra or Outer Image. Unfortunately, what you project is always far more than what you believe yourself to be.

Anyakara - what others hold you as—others' image

The third identity you carry is the image that others have about you, how others expect you to be, called anyakāra or Others' Image. How others perceive you may be different from how you project yourself to them, because people create their opinion about you from the subtle signals you give them, rather than what you openly project. Humans are intelligent enough to catch even what you don't say or especially what you don't say!

Svanyakara - what you think about others and life—life image And the fourth identity is very subtle, because it is not directly related to you. It is how you experience life to be for you and what you expect others to be, called svānyakāra or Life Image. For example, you may feel—life is lonely, life is complicated or life is sacred or life is scary, or life and people are always showering me with everything! Please understand, this is also your identity, because it defines the exact experience you will be receiving from the people and situations from life

When you become a leader, you need to continuously maintain leadership consciousness. How to maintain leadership consciousness is though authentically authenticating authenticity.

Someone inauthentic is shouting at you even though you have done everything properly, you start feeling powerless. So the first thing you do is to do instant completion with any person or any situation even when you are right and others say you are wrong. Next what you do is to declare in front of the group to take the responsibility for the other person's inauthenticity and be a cause for it and start taking responsibility for it. This will make you a REAL LEADER

Only when you constantly retain your authenticity authentically, can you continue to remain in the consciousness of a leader, the space of a leader. Nature listens to you when you are in authenticity.

The awareness of your inauthenticity will itself bring you to your peak capability. Then, you will naturally drop all your lower level emotions and live what Kṛṣṇa calls as śraddhāvanto anasūyanto,

Authenticity without envy, becomes the space of possibility.

Authenticity empowers you. When you are powerless, feeling very agitated and uncomfortable, completely wash yourself with authenticity. By nature, a person with a body and mind has to act in one way or the other. If you follow your nature with authenticity, you can be comfortable and flow in tune with Existence. When you are relaxed, when you are blissful, you express yourself beautifully

Unless innocence happens intimacy cannot happen. Intimacy is the language of Existence. The mind doesn't know intimacy. Only the being knows it. With intimacy there is openness and you can say and do everything that you feel genuinely and earnestly about. There will be authenticity in your words and actions. You will radiate energy that spurs the others around you to be innocent and open. Then the real beauty of Existence can be experienced.

What you feel as you, what you show yourself to others as you and what others perceive you as you all these three put together is your responsibility, it is your being.

It is as if you yourself is sitting in the inner consciousness of everyone who has some expectation towards you and you make them expect these things from you. Some of your words and body language is responsible for them to have that expectation from you.

So you are responsible for it. Some part of you which is suppressed by you, which wants to realize itself goes and sits in another's heart and becomes their expectation about you, so that suppressed part is realized. When you are not ready to listen to your own heart and expand, the divine helps you by creating the same expectation in others, so that you can expand. When you fulfill others expectations about you and realize that is also is your expectation about you, you reach the space of self-realization.

Then it is no more anyakara (other's image of you), you are expanding for your mamakara (inner image) and ahankara (outer image). When you fulfill the expectation of others only then you realize that it is your own expectations that are

fulfilled.

Living in your peak capacity, performing in your peak in all the three (mamakara, ahankara and anyakara), expressing your peak potential in all the three, expressing your highest possible energy in all these three is authenticity.

To make the children understand that fulfilling others makes you powerful.

• Which is your personality?
• Which is your being?
• What happens for your suppressed part?
• What happens when you are not ready to listen to your part?
• What happens when you fulfill others expectation?
• What is authenticity?

CONCLUSION: Other's expectation and about you is nothing but one more than a reminder, one more chance to fulfill your own expectation about you.

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• 2. Paper
• 3. Colour pencil

Connect them to the fact when you fulfill other others expectations about you and realize that is also is your expectation about you, you reach the space of self realization.

Threading beads in pairs. Encourage the children to sit in pairs. In each pair one person will hold the string and the other person will thread the beads. There must be co-ordination and co operation between the pairs to complete the task.

Connect them to the fact when you fulfill other others expectations about you and realize that is also is your expectation about you, you reach the space of self-realization.

Someone inauthentic is shouting at you even though you have done everything properly, you start feeling powerless. So the first thing you do is to do instant completion with any person or any situation even when you are right and others say you are wrong. Next what you do is to declare in front of the group to take the responsibility for the other person's inauthenticity and be a cause for it and start taking responsibility for it.

This will make you a REAL LEADER.

Connect the children to the fact when you fulfill others expectations about you and realize that is also is your expectation about you, you reach the space of self-realization.

Part 2: Authenticity

Any knowledge you imbibe, you become that when the mind becomes subtle and subtle knowledge itself becomes experience. When your body becomes subtler and subtler, sensitive and evolved, you become dual. When mind evolves, becomes subtle, any knowledge becomes experience. Knowledge is masculine, experience is feminine. When your body evolves both become one and you become dual.

Dual becomes non-dual meaning the masculine's strength and the feminine grace just merge into one. Knowledge is always masculine. Experience is always feminine. If your body is centered on one gender and rejected the other component of gender in your system, you will continue to struggle with experience or with knowledge.

Knowledge becoming direct experience happens when there is no incompletion in you. Inauthentic ones yet imagining themselves as authentic just because they have knowledge which has not yet become experience. Going around and around in crooked way, like the blind led by the blind.

Even one wrong idea inside your system by wrong book or a wrong logic sometimes takes years to clean and get out of it. Knowledge becoming experience is authenticity when you are authentic with your body, automatically it becomes dual. Knowledge becoming direct experience happens when here is no incompletion, when there is only authenticity.

To make the children understand learning becoming experience is authenticity..

• Which is masculine?
• Which is feminine?
• When do you become dual?
• What happens to inauthentic ones?
• What is incompletion?
• When knowledge becomes experience?
• What do the inauthentic ones do?
• What happens with one wrong idea?
• What happens to the authentic ones

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• 2. Paper
• 3. Colour pencil

Knowledge is masculine, experience is feminine. When your body evolves both becomes one and you become dual.

Write and paste friend's name or object name or creatures names on the forehead of a person. Each child can ask 10 questions about that name and he has to find the name which is stuck on the forehead by getting clues from the answers for the 10 questions.their balloon correctly without bursting others balloons and without making any mistakes. They have authenticity if a child picks up other child's balloon and he gives it to that child.

Inference: Knowledge becoming experience happens when there is no incompletion, when there is authenticity.

Any vested interest is incompletion and needs completion. When you are given something, anything even if it is toy or small empty box. That should not affect the state you are in. Just by getting something , you cannot be in the space of completion and just by losing something you cannot be in the space of incompletion as completion or incompletion is just from inside and not from outside.

When you have something and somebody is asking for it, you should be able to give it just like that without a thought. If you are in that space then you have no vested interest. Otherwise you have to find the vested interest for that object or that thing and complete with it.