Understand your higher identity
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March 27, 2012
You can never ever become a high achiever if you are not built on a foundation of high ethics. Your ethical principles create the foundation on which your personality is built. Understand, if the ethical foundation is not strong, even a small shake will send a tremor through you. The whole building will shake.
Every individual should understand his position in the broader context of society and the universe in which he is living. Let me give you an example. You usually settle down with a few small identities - I am the son of this person, father of this person, wife of this person, manager of this team, subordinate of this boss, supervisor of this band. But this is not enough, because a small shaking from society is enough to cause an Earthquake in you, a mind-quake in you. Your whole personality will be shaken. You need to see your identity in the broader context, in relation to society and the universe also: what am I in this society? What is my social responsibility? What am I in this universe? What is my responsibility in the universal context?
Understanding your expanded identity makes the job of the smaller identity easy. When your identity becomes clear within the broader context, the identity which you carry with your family or your team will look very small, simple and easy! Remember the higher truths about you. When you remember your universal responsibility and social responsibility, completing your office responsibility becomes nothing! Or your household responsibility becomes such a simple thing. You will play this
game out of freedom. Remembering the higher identity makes you understand that the responsibilities you have are too small, too simple, and you are much bigger than them. Then you will perform well with your team, and have a beautiful relationship with your family.
Whenever a responsibility is easy for you, you will have no trouble following the ethics. You will say, let me be ethical, nothing wrong. Only in complicated situations, when you are in crisis, you compromise on your ethics. Understand, there is no crisis in the world. Even if the whole world is in crisis, you are not in crisis - because it will dissolve into you and come out as you.
If you think you are a body, you will never be able to wake up early in the morning, because the fight is between equal identities. Your laziness and your physical identity - both have equal powers. Always fight the lower identity problems with the higher identity. Associate yourself with the higher identity.
Remember your higher identity and infuse that into your day-to-day life. Keep your body, mind and consciousness infused with the freedom of higher identity. When you infuse the higher identity into your body, it is health; when you infuse the higher identity into your mind, it is joy; when you infuse the higher identity in your consciousness, it is enlightenment.