Authenticity Book 20

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!.

What is ahamkara – outer image?

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.

Bring authenticity in every level. The way you do business, the way you maintain relationships, the way you take responsibility, the way you think, the way your recognise the world, the way you respond to the word, the way you act, the way you feel, the way you behave with your body, the way you behave with your mind. Bring authenticity in everything.

Not taking the responsibility for what you mean to others is agitation. When you don't take responsibility for your commitments to others, you get agitated, you get irritated, when you take the responsibility for your commitments, you will not be agitated, you will not be irritated. Any root pattern in you which does not allow the cognition of constant expansion, break that first, complete with that pattern first.

Don't show pseudo-sympathy towards you. Because if you show the pseudo-sympathy, you are not showing to you, you are showing sympathy to your root patterns which will flourish and grow and destroy you more. Break all the patterns of inauthenticity. First break the root pattern of impossible in your life. Exploring every dimension of your life for which you spend your life is practice. If you don't explore different possibilities, it will be boring. If you are excited about your life, if you practice, you are alive.

To make them understand when does

irritation and agitation happen.

• When agitation happens?
• When we get irritated?
• What happens when we don't take responsibility?
• What is practice?
• What root pattern we have to break? In which level we have to bring authenticity?
• When you are alive?

If you are excited about life, if you practice, you are alive.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pen or pencil
• 3. Sketch pen

Encourage the children to draw agitation in a pictorial format. Ask them to tell about what they have drawn.

Not taking responsibility for what you mean to others is agitation.

Make the children sit in a circle. Adult will do so many funny actions, so many funny things the game is the children must not smile whoever smiles will be out and they have to do the actions next to make other smile.

When you don't take responsibility for your commitments to others, you get agitated, you get irritated. You will not be happy.

All of us have emotions, good and bad. First thing we need to understand is that all emotions in us are due to chemical changes in our body. All the emotions like happiness, sad, depressed, crying, gratitude, anger, fear, greed, etc everything is an emotion. But in this we shall look at the emotions in a negative way.

So now, the emotions are negative like:

• Anger
• Fear
• Depression
• Sad
• Cying
• Jealousy
• Irritation , etc.

Now let us get into the process.

Whenever you experience any emotion, like anger or crying, these 2 are the best things with which you can play. So when you start crying for something , cry for some time and then stop crying for some time and again start , the emotions should be under your control. do the same thing for anger as well. Increase the anger and decrease anger as per your wish.

When you do this you will master your mind and your mind will be your slave.

Part 2: Authenticity

When you bring Authenticity to your thinking and your action, not just brings the result related to how much you expand. When you practice Authenticity, for example morning you do twenty four Surya Namaskar, you decide to bring Authenticity in your action, make it as fifty four, don't think you are going to have the benefit of only the extra 30 Surya Namaskar. You are going to have hundreds of many other extraordinary powers by that authentic decision. Authenticity does not bring results in proportionate level. It brings results in exponential level.

The power of authenticity brings unknown energies awakened in you, capabilities awakened in you. Authenticity straightaway brings strength in your presence. Nobody will even plan for cheating you. Authenticity brings strength to your presence. When you practice Authenticity, just by your presence you will enrich people. Anything you say simply will become part of the people's inner space. Authenticity has to be practiced authentically. If you live life now, anything coming in next moments only can be more life. It cannot be less life, so expand life.

To make the children understand:

Authenticity creates results exponentially

• What happens when you have authenticity?
• Does Authenticity bring results in proportional level?
• Which brings strength to your presence?
• What is the power of authenticity?
• In which level authenticities bring results?

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil

Encourage the children to draw any picture holding the pen or pencil in the mouth. Ask them to tell how they felt doing the art.

Connect them to the fact. Authenticity straightaway brings strength to your presence. Authenticity brings results in exponential level.

Ask each child to stand in pairs facing each other, one child will do some actions and the other child will mirror the actions. That means they have to do the opposite actions. Ask them whether it is easy or difficult.

Connect them to the fact when you bring authenticity to your thinking and your action, not just brings the result related to how much you expand. It brings results exponentially

It is very important for us to find align our self to something and be in integrity with it. In our life we have to have some core concept, it can either be Friendliness, Responsibility, Integrity, Compassion, etc. it can be anything. So decide a core concept for yourself and live in integrity with it. Whenever any incident happens in your life take a decision from that core concept. WORKSHOP OF THE DAY