102. Change your inner blueprint🔗

Each one of us carries a clear blueprint about our life inside us. It is that blueprint which expands into our life! If you go on changing the inner blueprint, naturally your life will also change. Please understand, any change you make in the outer world without changing the blueprint will never stay with you. I have seen many people - if their blueprint is for richness, even if they choose poverty, they will end up possessing poverty. Possessing poverty is equivalent to possessing richness.

I have seen many people, they renounce their home, their wealth, their farms, hundreds of acres of agricultural land, everything, and run away to the Himalayas, or to some holy town like Rishikesh, Kedarnath or Badri. They sit outside some temple there and beg for their food and live their life. But if you go closer, you will find out that they are fighting with one another for the place where they sit every day. Each one has his own 'begging spot', and they fight for their spot with one another!

I was an insider, so I tell you from my experience! They have renounced hundreds of acres of land back home to come to Haridwar or Rishikesh and become sadhus, seekers. They come here and sit in the same place outside the temple begging for their food. And after a few days they get attached to that place! What does that mean? It is equivalent to the attachment to a few hundred acres.

And I have seen people, they give up everything and have only one possession, a kamandalu, a water pot, but they get so attached to that kamandalu that they do nothing but wash, wash, wash it the whole day! I have seen a sadhu, he was called kamandalu baba, water-pot baba, because his whole life was centered on his kamandalu. From morning till night, he would just keep washing and polishing that pot. The kids living around the temple would throw a little cow dung on the kamandalu, just to tease him – and after that he would be seen sprinkling water on it and trying to purify it for the next three hours!

make, whatever you are able to handle, will never leave you. Even death cannot separate that from you. And in the same way, whatever you are not worthy of, even if you think you have it legally, you will not be living it, you will not be enjoying it, you will not be having it. You may think that you have a beach-house, a club-house, a chain of resorts here and there and everywhere, but finally, only your watchmen and security guards will be enjoying those places, not you. Legally they may be yours, but they only will be enjoying them.

Understand: these people have not changed the blueprint, so it is not renunciation. So naturally, the level of attachment, the level of suffering, remains the same. They feel the same level of security with the kamandalu as they used to fee with the hundreds of acres of land earlier. They feel very safe when the kamandalu is shining and fresh. And they go through the same level of insecurity if there is a small scratch on their kamandalu.

And even if you go there, you will not be in the right mood to enjoy them.

This understanding is not just necessary for those who want to renounce; it is for everyone! This one clear understanding can simply remove all your insecurity, all your attachment, all your possessiveness, all your fear and craving and suffering.

Vairagya can happen only with this one understanding: whatever you are worthy of, whatever responsibility you take, whatever commitment you

ACTIVITY

Bring to mind any one area of your life where you are not as successful as you would like to be. Can you identify the inner blueprint which is causing this?