1. Align your inner space to Success
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March 27, 2011
My definition of a relationship is reasonless happiness, fulfillment and joy. But there is a definition of relationship
by society, and there is also a definition by the cosmos.
You need to know an important fact: the individual, societal and cosmic definitions can be aligned. They need
not be contradicting one another. We always think that the definition of success by an individual, by society, or
by the Cosmos, will be in conflict with one another. This is a wrong concept.
Seekers usually say, as an individual, I may not be successful, but from the cosmic point of view, I am successful.
No! Look in. Don't justify your poverty as spirituality. When you do not have individual success, you hide
behind spirituality. You think you have cosmic success. No. You only have cosmetic success. You have painted
success on you! I know of thousands of seekers who go into depression in their old age, because of having
neither individual, societal nor cosmic success.
Unfortunately, there is such a misconception about how an individual feels about success, how society feels
about your success, and how the cosmos feels about your success.
Success as per the individual experience differs from time to time and place to place. For example, when
you started your career, you had a plan and an understanding about success. If you have worked at it, learned
something more than that understanding, and changed your idea about success to a higher level, you are alive.
But because you did not achieve the success as per what you felt as success, you create some theories like
poverty is sacred, blessed are those who are poor, and so on. Where are they blessed? In the slums??
Don't add sacredness to your inefficiency, ignorance or poverty. I tell you: blessed are those who are rich through the creation of wealth, not through grabbing, looting or corruption. Blessed are those who are creating wealth and success.
You always use the theories and theologies you build in your life as a buffer to avoid accepting your social failure. Be very clear that when you are a social failure, when you are sick and broke, you are a fool; you are ignorant. Allow that punch to directly attack your inner space. At least now you can rebuild it.
Practice:
All three forms of success - individual, social and cosmic - need to be aligned. Don't think it cannot be aligned; it can be aligned. Just be very clear where you need to align yourself. Do not justify your laziness and wrong decisions by attributing sacredness or self-sympathy to it. Do not attribute this to your failures. Instead, face them head on. Destroying your failures is Veerabhadra. Veerabhadra means the energy which faces your failures without justifying them or adding sacredness to them! Work on ignorance and destroy it! You will achieve alignment with success.