You are not an island🔗

23 May, 2012

Please understand, a human being is not an island as you constantly believe, and as you are made to believe. You are not an island. If the water you drink is poisoned, it is not just you who is going to die; if air you breathe is poison, it is not only you who is going to die. We are not islands, but we constantly live in the delusion that we are islands.

Ignorance is nothing but believing you are an island.

Knowledge means understanding you are connected to everything.

Enlightenment means realizing you are everything.

Any thought trend, philosophical system or education trend, whether it is Dvaita, Vishishtadvaita, Shaiva

siddhantha, Communism, Judaism, anything that is built on the concept that an individual is an island has

no basis. It is built on delusion. It is built on illusion.

Any thought trend built on the concept that you are an island reduces the breadth of your vision, and

finally makes you completely blind.

Do not think that just because you are able to see, you have vision! Seeing is different, vision is different.

Ability to receive this information, process it and present it in front of your consciousness is seeing.

Consciousness taking cognizance and responding is vision! Capturing of data by your eyes is only seeing;

it is not vision!

You are not an island. That is the first truth you need to realize. You cannot just grasp something and hold

on to it. Anything you get is just like a huge ice cube in your hand – including enlightenment!

If you go on radiating enlightenment, and making the people who are around you also enlightened, you are saved and you save others. If you just hold on to it tightly and say, 'It is only for me, me, me!' the ice will melt down and you will be left with only empty hands.

Please understand: anything in your life, whether it is wealth or enlightenment, unless you share it, you will not have it. Why do you think so many people become poor? They fear to share their power, they fear to share their time, they fear to share their life. The fellow who is afraid to share his time is a failed shudra, the fellow who is afraid to share his power is a failed kshatriya, fellow who is afraid to share his wealth is a failed vaishya, fellow who is afraid to share enlightenment is a failed brahmana.

I am using these four words - brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya, shudra - for sake of your understanding. When I say vaishya, I mean entrepreneur. When I say Kshatriya, it means a person empowered. When I say shudra, I mean a person who is supposed to work and execute. When I say brahmana, I mean a person who is supposed to be living enlightenment

When you don't share, you destroy yourself. Go on sharing, sharing, sharing. It will culminate in enlightenment.