Don'T Be Controlled By Fear Or Greed

If you can look into somebody's eyes without the greed of possessing that person, or the fear of that person, if you can relate with a simple friendliness, you can learn that with life also.

How many of us can look into the opposite gender's eyes without the greed or fear? If you can, then you can relate with life also. This is the first thing you

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need to learn. This is one of the main lessons I am trying to make into an experience and lifestyle for my Gurukul kids. You should be able to handle life without fear and greed. You should be able to handle life with a beautiful friendliness. Never allow the distance with life.

Yesterday, one of the Directors of our TV show was asking me, 'Swamiji, the way you look at the participants and ask the question, they just open up and tell everything! When we ask them, they don't tell anything. How come, when they come and sit in front of you, they pour out the whole thing?'

Understand, you should be able to directly face life, without the mediator of fear and greed. You believe that even to live with life, you need a broker's help. You are nothing but an agent of a broker. For everything, you need a broker. So, with life also, you don't live it directly. You need a broker. Who is the broker? Fear or Greed!

Unfortunately, when your broker knows that you carry fear or greed, he will design the life that way only and bring it to you, so that he can exploit you. For example, if your broker knows you really want a particular land, what will happen? That land will now cost three times more for you! If he knows you have a deep desire for that land, the land is now going to cost three times more.

Same way, you have these two fellows in your life brokering with life – your Greed and your Fear.

If your incompletions are behaving as brokers between you and your life, please be very clear, you are in Hell! You are in Hell! So, the first thing you need to attend to is - complete with those incompletions. Whether it is fear or greed, complete with those incompletions! Otherwise, you will go on suffering between Heaven and Hell! In Hell you have the constant feeling, 'When will I get out? When will I get out?' In Heaven you have the constant feeling, 'Will they kick me out? Will they kick me out?' With Heaven, you are afraid they may kick you out. With Hell you are waiting, 'When will they let me out?' Your greed or fear itself becomes a mold with which you mold your life. Unfortunately, your greed makes sure you don't get what you are greedy about, and your fear makes sure you always get what you are afraid of! Learn to engage with life without the incompletions of fear and greed!