Encourage every possibility
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February 10, 2012
A possibility happening inside you is like a new bud, like a tiny plant just sprouting out. It should be treated with a lot of love and respect! Every hope, every faith, every trust, and every little possibility should be kept alive, encouraged, and enriched - that is dharma. In the Vedic Tradition, we have a great heart to encourage every possibility.
I have seen people losing so many things in life, just because they cannot keep the possibility open! Just because of their narrow ideas, they postpone the decision and seal off the possibility. Don't shut down your possibilities, or postpone them, just because you cannot encounter or face certain situations. A person who shuts down his possibility is an atheist.
Atheists are people who do not have the subtle grooves in their brain to grasp the subtle higher truths of life. So they just shut down, saying, nothing like this exists. Shutting down any possibility, shutting down any hope is atheism.
Keep all hopes alive - even if it is false hope! Understand, all hopes lead you to hopelessness, not because they are false hopes, but to lead you to reality. Hope by its very innate intelligence leads you to reality. So keep all the hopes alive.
By rigid rules, so many possibilities get stopped! Whenever the possibilities are shut down, hopes are reduced. Other than the rule of no human trafficking, no other rule should be solid. Everything should be fluid, which a person can bend or alter as per his responsibility. Everything should be a flowing guideline, not a rigid rule.
Shutting down the possibility is adharma. Believing the possibility for further progress does not exist is defined as raahu in astrology. The guru keeps even the smallest possibility open. I have happened on planet Earth to open and fill everybody with all hopes; to awaken all the possibilities of you.