Own and Let Others Own
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14 June, 2013
Human beings feel that living with the pure consciousness is too much; it is too much of happiness! I am exactly reading out from the Akashic Records, the ultimate truths about why patterns are created. Pure Consciousness is like a vast ocean; it is too much of joy. Many of you do not know that space after the age of three or four, once the root pattern has started in you. Once the first root pattern has started in you, you do not know the space of that extreme joy and living in pure consciousness.
The pure space seems to be a little heavy, a little too much of joy! Human beings feel they can't afford it! It is like this: you don't want to own the whole ocean, you want to own only the beach, because only in the beach you can put a fence and ensure that others don't enter into it! You can own the ocean, but you can't possess it. Please understand: owning is different, possessing is different. All of us can own the whole world, but we can't possess it. That is where the problem starts. The whole village

owns the village temple, but you
can possess only your house!
When you possess, you make
sure others don't enter it.
You don't want to own the ocean; you want to possess the ocean. But you know you can't possess the ocean. If you want to own, you can own the whole world! But when you want to possess, that is where the problem starts. Unfortunately, only if you eliminate others, you feel you are victorious, which is not right, which is a basic wrong understanding. Please get it!
I want you to know a very important fact. Never, ever will you be free by your efforts to be free. Freedom will happen to you only by the right knowledge about freedom, never by your efforts towards freedom. Never are your efforts towards freedom going to give you freedom! It is only the knowledge about freedom which will give you freedom. Get it?
In any field, own and let others own. Don't be stuck with the possessiveness. Don't be stuck with the wrong idea that eliminating others is the only way you can be safe. No! If you eliminate everyone, you will be all alone and you will be suffering with loneliness. I have seen people having large houses, eliminating everyone and sitting all alone. Poor people's huts are more joyful and rich, overflowing with people who live and celebrate life, than some of the so-called rich men's houses.
It is actually whether you "own" or "possess" that decides whether you are rich or poor. A man who possesses everything will always be poor. A man who owns and lets others own will always be rich. I own this ashram and let the whole world own this ashram. That is why this place is eternal celebration, Nithyotsava!
I tell you, if you want some place to be in joy, celebration always, this is the secret: Own and let others own! Own and let others own!