You are hardwired for Authenticity
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24 June, 2013
Next, Authenticity.
Practice Authenticity for the
sake of achieving the space of
possibility.
Many of us practice
Authenticity in our life. We go
on expanding. We try to move
from two-wheeler to four-
wheeler, from four-wheeler to
bigger four-wheeler and more
bank balance, more property. We do practice Authenticity, but, unfortunately, with the wrong reason in wrong space.
Listen: I will give you exactly why Authenticity should be practiced. Whether you know it or not, you are the reflection of the Cosmic Soul. The Individual Soul is the reflection of the Cosmic Soul. Jeevatma is reflection of the Paramatma. Paramatma reflecting in your body is Jeevatma. So the Individual Soul is actually inbuilt with the quality of expanding, so that it can become Cosmic Soul. It is like this: if you take a child away from its mother, it will cry and try its best to reach the mother. It you take a calf away from its mother, it will try its best to reach the mother. The Individual Soul's struggle, its innate tendency to reach the Cosmic Soul, is Authenticity. The Individual Soul's innate tendency to expand and reach its original source, its mother, the Cosmic Soul, is Authenticity.
But, unfortunately, we practice Authenticity in many other directions. We start putting our energy in wrong direction. It is our deep incompletion which expresses as Authenticity. You think through more money you will feel completion, through more houses you will feel completion, through more relationships you will feel completion. No. When you become authentic, all this also happens as side-effect.
Listen. When you become authentic and express the space of possibility, yes, you will have more wealth no doubt, better relationships, more property; whatever you want in the outer world also, you will have all that. But don't practice Authenticity with that context. Practice Authenticity with the right reason and right context.
Understand, you are naturally programmed to be authentic. Authenticity is nothing but continuous expansion. You are naturally programmed for Authenticity, because the Individual Soul has a deep yearning to expand and become the Cosmic Soul. That deep yearning only expresses as Authenticity. So all of us are naturally hardwired for Authenticity. So anyone who is alive will practice Authenticity, but unfortunately, in the wrong plane, in the wrong space, with the wrong reason. Now, catch the right reason and practice from right plane.