WHY DO WE NEED COURAGE OF AUTHENTICITY?
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A small story: A man born blind goes to the doctor and asks, ‘Doctor, will you help me gain my eyesight?’ The doctor says, ‘Don’t worry, I will perform an operation. You will get your vision and after that you can walk without your stick.’
Blind people always carry a stick to feel their way around. The doctor tells him that he will be able to walk without the stick. The blind man asks, ‘Doctor, I understand you will do an operation. I understand I will have my eyesight restored. But I don’t understand howI can walk without the stick?’
By and by, the blind man had forgotten that his stick was just an aid. In the same way, just live without the mind. Just live without purpose and goals, you will be able to walk without the stick. The stick is nothing but your planning and worrying. By and by, worrying has become a part of you
Courage is the fragrance of authenticity. When you have the courage of authenticity, śraddha towards living these teachings and start living without purpose, only then will you realize that you don't need the stick to walk. That is when you become authentic to your peak possibility. Once you enter into the depths of your being, you will enter into a totally different dimension. Whatever you think now as spiritual life or material life both lose their meaning and you will enter a new dimension of life. You will be established in authenticity, in the space of possibility.
When you enter into your being, when you experience the purposelessness of life, the so-called material life and spiritual life both drop you and you enter what is called 'Quantum spirituality' or Eternal Consciousness. You are then in eternal bliss. Only then you will understand you don't need worries to live. You don't need your mind. Until you reach the being, you need to have śraddha
The next word is a beautiful word: 'anasūyanto,' which means 'without envy.' This is important. We all think, 'He has that, she has this,' what happens?
All your spirituality, all your authenticity, all your purposelessness, everything just disappears.
You are again in the same rat race. If your neighbor buys a new air conditioner, the temperature in your house shoots up. Envy is the parasite pattern that puts you back in the same rut of inauthenticity. The problem with the rat race is this—even if you win, you are still a rat!
Any pattern you create before the age of seven is the root pattern. Any pattern created after the age of seven is a parasite pattern.
First you will have to work on completing with the parasite patterns and then completing with all the root patterns.
The moment the parasite pattern of
envy or jealousy enters your being,
authenticity disappears, purposelessness
disappears. Again, you fall into social
conditioning and you start running
behind goals like a rat.
Kṛṣṇa is asking Arjuna to bring śraddha
or authenticity in action to the peak
possibility of what he perceives as
himself and what he projects as himself,
without the parasite pattern of envy.
