5. Be a High Achiever in Everything
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April 03, 2011
If I have to give a basic qualification that you need for living enlightenment, it is to be a high achiever. That's all. Whether it is your body, soul, mind or any other line, be a high achiever. I don't mean by grabbing, looting, swindling or putting others down. No! I mean a simple, energetic, high achiever.
If you are sweeping the floor, be a high achiever. If you are making a flower garland, be a high achiever. Have a tremendous curiosity for life!
Last Sunday, I sat and worked with energy beads. I made a chain with rudraksha beads and wire knots. You may think that it is not a big thing. But when I picked up that job, I decided to be a high achiever in that job.
There is no such thing as mundane or sacred. There is no difference between life and religiousness. The attitude of being a high achiever is religiousness. The juice of my life is the attitude of being a high achiever.
Be a high achiever in any line you pick up. Think extraordinarily, so that you can be in a space of no thinking. Understand, the space of no thinking does not happen for the fellows who are in dullness. No. It happens only to the people who think extraordinarily.
Thinking is like water, it has to disappear by becoming steam, not by becoming ice. Ordinary people think that thinking should lose it water quality by becoming ice. No; it has to become vapor. So awaken all the dimensions of your life.
What stops you from living life fully? It is nothing but simple laziness. You don't want to, that's all. You think that living fully is too much..! You always think, what should I live fully for? Why should I work so much? Why should I think so much? Let me just do what my boss tells me to do, that’s all.
Don’t be foolish! If you think like that, you already sold your life to your boss. Your life is not a bargain given to your boss. Just because your boss pays you only 10,000 rupees, you stop with that. You are caught in foolishness.
Make your whole life into a non-profit. When I say non-profit, I am not saying that you will not receive anything. I am only saying, don’t base your actions on what you receive. Don’t have a mental calculator all the time. Understand that the profit which comes to you is not for the product you deliver, but just to sustain your day-to-day life. This is what is called the attitude of karmanyeva adhikaaraste ma phaleshu kadaachanah, do your duty and don’t have an expectation of the results.
Practice:
Decide that for the next one year, your life will be a non-profit. You will see, you will live fully and intensely. Deliver, deliver, deliver and go on delivering. Achieve, achieve, achieve and go on achieving. Living your life for one year with a non-profit attitude prepares you to live life fully.
