INTRODUCTION — Gratitude

When we work with expectations all
the time, we will carry a subtle
violence in our body language. It is
not deliberate violence but inherent
violence. If we become a little
sensitive to our body language, we
will be able to catch this. When you
operate from your heart, you are
always in gratitude. Gratitude is not
any virtue. It has to be your very
attitude.

Portrait of Nithyananda Paramashivam as a young boy

Source: Nithyanandapedia.org

It has to be your very attitude. Only when you feel gratitude you can tune yourself beautifully to existence and then existence will reveal to you its magical splendor.

With gratitude your entire body language changes. When you start experiencing deep gratitude, your responses to situations change. You start resonating with existence. Your body will flow with that resonance, with a cool grace and softness.

All your actions will arise out of this grace. There will be no violence, only joy will be flowing, anything you do will only make life sweeter.

Each human being is a unique master piece. But we never feel that we are beautiful enough. We constantly compare ourselves with others and try to look like them. We never make our body feel it is beautiful. Our body is influenced by the thoughts we entertain about it. Every cell responds to our thoughts and feeling and about it.

A digital rendering of a young man with long dark hair, wearing rudraksha beads and traditional ornaments, sitting on an ornate chair.

If we feel gratitude towards our body, our body responds by improving our health. If we hate our body, the body responds by shrinking with disease. It is just like the effect of our thoughts on other human beings. There are people who are born blind.

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There are people who are born without arms or legs. We have everything and yet we take it all for granted.

Sometimes people who have a physical handicap are more grateful than those who have a perfect body. The handicapped person knows what it is to miss a body part so he is automatically grateful to the other body parts