9. Clinging to reward binds you
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June 29, 2012
Clinging to reward takes away your life from yourself.
It is like you handing over your decision-making authority to others. Does anyone want to hand over their freedom to others? No. But the moment you have the clinging to reward, you very subtly hand over the reins to others. You say, drive me as you want; I will run.
Please understand, clinging to reward is nothing but handing over your freedom to others, psychologically becoming a slave to others. This thought flow, thought current, thought trend, destroys your very core, your very source. Whoever you expect should reward you, they drive you. The man who pays the piper decides the tune. Same way, the people from whom you expect the reward decide the tune in which you are going to dance, the tune in which you are going to work, the tune in which you are going to perform your actions.
As long as you have the attachment to the reward for performance, your life is going to be hell; you are going to be living in suffering. When you give up the idea of reward for performance, tranquillity happens in you. You achieve the highest tranquillity. The last attachment human beings suffer with is this clinging to reward. I tell you, give up this attachment to reward for performance. You will be in the highest tranquillity. You will be in the greatest peace.
Becoming bound, becoming entangled, is the greatest suffering human beings carry. Look into your life to see where you may be caught in this clinging or attachment to the reward of performance. Please understand, one who has had the spiritual experience, having given up the reward for performance, gains the highest tranquillity.
Decide not to get rewarded by anybody who is expecting a reward from others. Just take a simple decision - I will not beg from beggars. I will not ask for or expect any reward from the fellows who are also expecting a reward from others.
Decide - if I have to be rewarded, I will be rewarded only by a person who does not need to be rewarded by anybody. If I have to receive, I will receive only from the king!