INTRODUCTION
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Who is an optimist and who is a pessimist? An optimist is a man who created the airplane. A pessimist is a man who created the seat-belt. In life you always play both the roles. Sometimes you are an optimist and sometimes you are a pessimist. Here, both can lead to the same goal if the inner space is pure and complete. Please listen: Whenever we move our body while feeling a particular emotion, that emotion gets settled inside our system. That emotion will become part of us and get created again and again in our system. Jiḍḍu Kṛṣṇamurti, an Enlightened Master from India, made a wonderful statement about emotions. He says, ‘If you can, try to remain centered, silent, without moving your body when a particular emotion rises in you, without co-operating with it. Within eleven times, or I can say within eleven emotional upsets, if you have managed to be this way, you will be liberated from that emotion.’
With integrity and authenticity, eleven times is too much. When that emotion rises in you, don't cooperate. Let your body not go after that emotion. Don't be taken away by that emotion. Just decide, 'I am not going to be taken away by this emotion. I am completing with it.' I tell you, within three or four times, you will be liberated from that emotion because you will learn the technique of completion.
Drop Greed and Fear, Live Power and Joy
When you come down to this planet, you bring enough energy to live all your desires or to achieve whatever you want to achieve in this life; to create your reality as you want. You have already brought enough fuel. You don't need fuel from fear or greed.
Work only for your desires. Don't waste your life working for others' desires. Decide clearly, 'For the next ten days, I will work only out of my power, my joy and bliss. I will do everything out of my completion.' I can assure you, it will transform your life.
When you start practicing this, for the first few days you will feel a little unsettled because a new inner space is created. Say 'No' to any desire or any fear that comes up. Initially, you will feel some emptiness, a vacuum, but don't worry. In a few days you will beautifully settle with the new space. Don't worry when you fail a few times. Starting this way is much better than staying in fear of failure. So start! At least you will know the technique. I tell you with integrity, it will transform your whole life. It will give you such great strength and courage that invariably you will be liberated.
Remove the tremendous
stress and load from your
inner space. Decide, ‘For
ten days, I will do all my
actions out of deep bliss,
out of a settled mood of
powerfulness and joy.’
In Saṃskṛt, ‘Śiva’ means causeless auspiciousness, reasonless energy. It is possible to live with that reasonless, unmotivated energy. Only two things are needed for that. The first thing is trust that you have that energy. The next thing is starting to live it. Only these two things are needed to reach the Divine Consciousness. When we start working with the causeless auspicious energy, we become Śiva. Otherwise, we are Śava (dead body).
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When we use the word 'renounce'
the way we understand it, we
exclude something. Exclusion can
never be the solution. When we say
'I should give up or avoid
something', we exclude some
creation of Existence. When we try
to renounce the world, we are
renouncing the creation of
Existence. We are trying to prove
that we are more intelligent than
Existence.
Just sit down for five minutes and
be aware of how you perceive
situations. With completion and
awareness, look at everything you
think and do, and you can
understand what I mean. When we
come to an understanding of our
own self and are able to live as a
witness to everything that goes on
around us, unaffected by situations
and people around us, we become a
realized soul, living enlightenment.
If we do things fuelled by fear and
greed, we become hypocrites.
EXPERIENCE YOUR TRUE NATURE
In the Mahābhārat war, Kṛṣṇa drives Arjuna’s chariot. The horses represent the senses held beautifully in control by the divine charioteer. He drives the being represented by the warrior, in the body represented by the chariot towards victory, towards bliss.
When the individual consciousness surrenders control to the Divine, the Divine controls the body-mind-spirit and steers one towards one’s true nature, bliss.
We have forgotten what it is to respond with intelligence. No situation can be exactly the same as before. How can it be? Can a river flow in exactly the same way at two different points? The very water would have changed from the time it flows from one point to the other. Life is like a river. It is continuously changing.
Existence is energy. It can never repeat itself. Every moment is unique.
It is just like when we are in a dream, we don't realize it is a dream. We think everything that is happening is reality. The moment we wake up from the dream we realize in a flash that it was just a dream. The way we are living life now is exactly the same. We are living life in the dream of the future and the past. And we think that the dream is reality.
The reality is actually in the
present, which is the space of
completion. When we realize
this, we simply wake up to
the true reality from the
dream of illusion. Then, we
understand that the senses,
body and mind are not us.
We are something much
beyond these. With this
awareness we become
complete and blissful.
GOALS:
For the children to understand
they do not need fear or greed
to live their life. To understand
that we should live from
completion and awareness,
unaffected by situations and
people around us.