Leaders are empty🔗

To be empty means to become a nobody. Nobody in the eyes of the society and the mind, somebody you cannot put a frame around or a boundary around to quantify. Dropping the false identities that we create from the continuous conditioning and being the true self.

Ego is the false identity. We create two identities one is outer identity called ahankaar which we project to the outer world as who we want the outer world, society to believe about us. The other identity is the inner identity or mamakaar which we project to ourselves thinking or believe what we really are. Both these identities are pure lies or call them impure lies. Both these identities are a set of ideas, concepts related to societal behavior, morality, qualifications, possessions, name, fame, status, etc. All of these are external and temporary and are created by set of other minds which are once again under some false beliefs about true identity.

Seriousness is nothing but trying to constantly create, maintain and chisel and protect these two identities. Seriousness kills spontaneity and never allows the true self to express instead we are constantly trying to maintain the mind and its concepts. Ego manifests itself in so many ways and we live according to it every minute of our lives. We all actually use masks in our day-to-day lives. We use one mask when we deal with our parents, one with our subordinates, one with our bosses. As long as you know 'who are you for you', as long as you use the right mask for the right persons, it is alright. You can enjoy only when you know that you are something beyond the mask. But ego itself manifests in so many cunning ways, it makes you cling to all these masks and makes you believe that it is your true identity.

Some people have active ego and some of them have passive ego. Active ego is very easy to recognize. Active ego will not be willing to let go of it even if all his other defenses like money, wealth, etc are taken away from him. But passive ego is very subtle and cunning. People who have passive ego will pose to be very humble, lacking courage to face people, shying away from taking credit, etc. The worst part of this is they are like this because they are not egoistic. The truth is they are more egoistic than the other lot. They are so carefully guarding their ego from getting hurt by doing all these humble things. When you are in deep awareness and understanding you will be a mere watcher of your ego and in this state you will automatically be neither humble nor egoistic, you will neither take credit nor shy away from it. And you will not even think or claim that you are neither of these. You simply will be, that's all. When anyone appreciates you or gives you credit, you will simply resonate with Existence and leave it at that, that’s all. And there will be no need for any comparison or claim. You care so much for other’s reactions and opinions towards you. You cannot bear to suffer a dent on your ego that you have nurtured so carefully all these years. This ego is your very anchor point. If that is jolted, you will feel anchorless.

When you are self conscious you are very egoistic. You think that you are a big entity and that everyone’s eyes are on you all the time. The moment you start thinking that people are watching you, ego has stepped in and you lose your natural self. Children are not as self conscious as adults are. If you watch them play, you will see – there will be so much of beauty and innocence in the whole thing. Even when you take pictures of yourself and others, you will notice that pictures taken without you being aware that you are being photographed look much better than the ones taken asking you to pose for the camera. Your being is a river and you have made it stagnate with the so-called knowledge. Real knowledge is in knowing how to drop the knowledge that comes your way and live like a child, flowing with spontaneity. You need to move from ego to spontaneity.

Whatever we think as ours nothing like ours exists. I and me or I and mine which we are holding is a pure lie. All your mine is protected or supported just by law, the law of society, land has no law. Law of the land is beyond your comprehension. As long as you are caught with this concept of I and mine, you will not be able to realize the truth of this existence. You are caught thinking something as you, something as yours. Understand the drama which you are doing, game which you are playing. If you are playing the game to cheat others, it is ok. But you cheat yourself. By and by we forget, we started this game to cheat others and now we are cheating ourselves with this game. There is no I, no mine.

A person who is intelligent, who is willing to open eyes and see, will suddenly realize there is no I and no mine. Whatever you think as I, whatever you think as mine, this body, can you function without air. Even air does not belong to you. When it stops functioning, whatever you think as you does not belong to you. Whatever you think as you, root or base, does not belong to you. We take life for granted. I and mine both have no base. A person who is intelligent enough to open his eyes and see, whatever he thinks as I and whatever he thinks as mine - both are just drama. They are not under his control. The moment the breathing stops, immediately your name will be removed and will be given a new name dead body. Your house will not be useful, car will not be useful. What you think as I is baseless. Mine is also baseless.

We have built our personality on other opinions. We know nothing about ourselves; apart form what others have said about us. We know ourselves based on what society thinks about us. Just look into yourself. If society thinks that you are useless, you will start thinking that and go into depression. If society thinks that you are a great person, you will feel great.

We need to understand how this I and Mine gets built as our identity. How does one acquire the ego or identity which is not the real self. These deep truths from vedic wisdom can lead you to a quantum jump in unleashing the True Self and realizing the real you. Just having the understanding and allowing that understanding to work on you will start the psychological revolution in you. If you cooperate and change your day to day activities based on the understandings happening to you, more and more understandings will start happening to you. These kinds of sutras or aphorisms, are just the kind of clicks you need to understand the real you and to shed the false identities which is all ideas of the mind. Next thing you need to do is cooperating with the effects that are happening out of this psychological revolution.

One of the greatest declaration, greatest weapon and greatest tool given to human beings for awakening of the consciousness by our ancient wisdom is that mine comes before I. Not I and then mine. If there is I and then mine, then you can never realize the true self because whatever you do you will be working only on the mine. Mind is mine. See mind is also one of your properties. So whatever you do will be only on your property, not on you. Operating on your properties cannot get you out of disease. Surgery being done to your car cannot help your knees. So all your operation if it is on the mind, which is mine, then how could the false ego be lost? I sat and consciously verified how the I and mine gets created.

First comes the mine which are all our desires and knowing which is all the concepts and ideas and so called knowledge. Only on that the I or your identity what you think as you is getting built. Not that I is base and on that mine is getting built, which means you don't know even the false identity before you start accumulating the properties and knowledge which you hold on as mine. I was able to verify this when I had the opportunity of watching a child that one of my relatives had brought with her. She placed her infant son on the floor with toys. He was playing with the toys and then he picked up one of the toys and put it in his mouth trying to swallow it. I snatched the toy so that he would not hurt himself. The moment I snatched, I saw not only the child was weeping and crying but his whole life, was jumping out of his body to have that toy, to have that possession. See I was in a deep pure awareness and consciously alive and witnessing what was happening.

I saw from this incident that I only took what the child thinks as mine. His whole life was shaken. His whole being was shaken. He was feeling as if his whole life is being taken away and he is being killed. Some of his part is being taken away. I could see very clearly, consciously, that the I is built on mine from the young age. If the mine can be removed then I has no work, I just loses its base. I cannot exist without mine. Mine is like fabric out of which the I is created. If you remove all the fabric, there will not be I. I gave the toy back to the child. The moment he put the toy in his mouth, I saw clearly his I coming back to life, and settling. Somehow consciously I had awareness to scan what was happening inside, in his system, in his being. Again, the moment I removed the toy, again I saw his whole I, his whole being is shaken.

From the young age when you are living with unconscious, it means from day one, the I is getting built only on mine. After sometime you collected enough of mental ideas as mine. Only on those mental ideas the I is standing. Even if all the items, outer world things are taken away from you, you have collected lot of ideas and knowledge as mine. On that knowledge and ideas the I is standing. That child fortunately does not have ideas and knowledge collected as mine, but he has products and items collected as mine. The moment it is taken away, the I is shaken.

Till the age of 7 you are getting built only on whatever physical things, physical properties you have. After sometime, you acquire ideas, desires, fears and so many things. Then you are building yourself on that. That is what I call having individual logical thinking. If you start acting or if you are active even when you don't have things around you then the individual logical thinking has started happening to you. If you can start acting or if you are active even when you don't have physical things around you, what you think as yours, then you have started having, intellectual logical thinking. You don't understand that the ideas and concepts and so called knowledge you have accumulated are also some more properties. They are also properties of your mine.

Understand, till age of seven kids cannot think without their properties. If their properties are not there, there won't be thinking. Nowadays, at the age of 3 itself it starts because input is too much. After enough input is put inside, then a platform is created by the collected ideas of desire, fears. It is on all these things that you start thinking you. You start creating the I because the platform is there from the moment you started having the I. You never think that without the platform, the I cannot exist. You start thinking that the I is more stronger and permanent. You may argue, no I can think even when I don't have properties around me.

Understand now, this one click and allow this initiation to work on you. The understandings that you are currently having that you are the center and that your desires are your own and that they are your property is a lie. Your fears are your property or whatever is happening inside you, your mind is your property is a lie. You are the property of your mind. This will bring so much disrespect to your mind, so much of rest, so much of un-clutching between you and your mind. As long as you think your mind is yours you will never be able to stop fulfilling what it says. What it anticipates. You will never be able to escape from its roots.

Even if you escape from your desires, these same desires will attack you in the form of fears. Your mind is very intelligent when you escape from the desires it will create fears and make you do the same thing what it wants you to do, in a different way. It will enter from the back door. Whether it is your fear or your desire, it is not yours. The very understanding your fears are not yours will leave you so freely, with so much of rest, you don't have to stop or escape from them. You don't have to stop them. You don't have to escape from them. At the most what can happen? Death. Let it happen. For whom it will not happen. For everybody it will happen. Not only for you, even for me. At least what you think as me. This body is going to die. There is nothing that is not going to die. Let you have this courage. Anything has to disappear, this one clarity, your fears are not yours. You are not needed you don't have to protect yourself from those fears. You are not continuously needed to protect yourself from those fears. Neither you are needed nor do you need to protect yourself from those fears continuously happening. Your desires are not yours, your fears are not yours. You are only being created and given a illusory idea to you that you exist so that you will continue to fulfill your fears and desires.

Your fears and desires have crated a lobby and put you as the president just to fulfill what they want. This is the essence, but unfortunately you start thinking you have power and you are fulfilling the needs of your fears and desires. Because of that you continue to exist and you continue to create things which needs for you to exist. Relax just from this one thing. You, what you think as I is nothing but created leader by the fears and greed. Every fear you remove, part of you will die. Every desire you remove, part of you will start melting away. The moment you remove all these things, suddenly you will see, you don't exist.

Your identity is now like the light at a certain point created in these laser beam shows. From three or four places they will send some strong laser beams. They will hit at one point and will appear like a strong light, or a sun in one spot in the sky out of nowhere. If you remove the laser beams, the sun will not exist. But because you are seeing that sun for quite a long time, you forgot that laser beams are responsible for the sun to exist. You start thinking that sun has its own existence. You start thinking you have your own existence, apart from those three, four laser beams which are contributing to your existing. What you think as you is not self emanating. You are truly self emanating.

When you understand your fears are not yours, your desire are not yours and you are the property of all your desires and fears, suddenly you will start losing respect for them, then you will un-clutch completely from whatever you think as you. The sun will disappear. When the laser beams are moved away, the sun which was there will disappear. This is what Buddha calls nirvana, extinction. What you think as the false you will be extinct. If you remove the fuel supply what you think as the false you will be extinct. What all you think as yours that only adds to what you think as you.

All you need to do is allow all your desire, fear, greed, idea about world, idea about you, ideas about me, everything to go through a change based on this understanding, this clarity. When the clarity happens, when you click with this sutra, start tuning your day to day activities based on this sutra. If you say, no, no my life is already planned; I don't want to disturb it, etc then ok. Anybody who is courageous, understand, if there should be psychological revolution click, this click is enough. Now sit and revise all your goals, all your ideas about what you want to do in the life, what you a want to become. What you are. You may be having an idea about you and your efficiency and your possibility. Your efficiency will always think as lower than your possibility and your goal and so many other things. Now revise all of them, just with this one understanding.

Understand, before desire and before knowing, how can I say I am. It means, be very clear, your desires or your knowing does not have a base of your being. Even though you are continuously believing this is what I want to be and this is why I carry all these desires, that is why I carry all this knowing and that is what I am expressing in the life. Your belief of what you want to be, and the path to what you want to be is not in tune. This is the click. How can you say, your desires and your knowing exist in you before you realizing the true you. Your understanding, your desires are your property is the main reason, why you are running behind trying to fulfill till the end of the life and getting frustrated.

Go through a simple shift and reorganizing. You are the property of your desires. They are just kicking you from left to right and right to left from different corners. Decide for some time, to keep all of them away, your desires and knowing and see what remains. Just tune your day to day activities, decision making to keep all these things away, whatever you think as mine away and see what remains. Understand these clicks are not such a small thing as we think. They are so powerful, so strong. Sometimes these clicks can do a psychological revolution in one second.

You should have the courage to go behind the click and see the end of it. I am not saying you will leave the wealth and go but imbibing this deep understanding and tuning your thinking and life to this click can do such a big transformation in you. Falling in tune means if you can arrange your day to day activities in tune with this click, your day to day decisions in tune with this click, this same click can reveal deeper and deeper clicks and understandings to you. This initiation is like giving you one light. That light can be put off by any cyclone, or air or blowing wind. If you protect it, it cannot be put off. Protecting it means, tuning your day to day activities in tune with that click. You will see your day to day decisions are again and again revolving around that click. Your day to day activities are falling in tune with that click. Whenever, your day to day activities are made to fall with that click, with that understanding, deeper and deeper truths will be revealed by the same initiation.

If the mine can be relaxed, you will see the extinction happens. Imbibe and have this initiation with you now. Let the initiation do the process. Initiation is like putting a fire in a huge cotton go-down. All you need to do is allow it to be burnt. Do not dump too much cotton on that small fire. If you put too much cotton on that small fire, you may put it off. Just allow the fire to burn. It means you don't have to do any techniques or any mental confusion, chaos or anything. That is like dumping too much cotton on that fire. You may put it off sometime. At the most allow some air. It means tuning your day to day activity and thinking towards that initiation, towards that click, towards that inner fire.

See you do not exist before you accumulate and start working on fear or desire or your properties. Whatever properties you have outside or inside is not you. When you understand your desires need not be fulfilled by you. Your fears need not be fulfilled by you. You don't have to protect yourself from those fears, a deep grace happens to you. A beauty happens to you. Neither your desires need to be fulfilled by you nor do you have to protect yourself from your fears. They are not yours. You are theirs.

Total duration: 30 minutes

This technique has two parts. One to cleanse the Ajna chakra and the other to energize it. The Ajna chakra or the third eye is known as the destroyer of illusion and lust. It helps open the super conscious in you.

Place a lit prayer lamp in front of you, using sesame oil or clarified butter from cow’s milk. You may use a candle also, but ensure that it is made of vegetable fat. This is a guided meditation if you use the CD, it will have the instructions and music change for every five minutes.

Sit cross-legged on the floor with your eyes closed. Those who cannot sit on the floor may sit on a chair.

For five minutes, focus on your Ajna chakra as if to penetrate it.

After five minutes open your eyes and look at the flame of the lamp through your third eye between your eyebrows. Your eyes may blink or burn or tears may flow, just allow it to happen. Look at the flame without blinking for five minutes.

Close your eyes and again focus on your Ajna chakra for another five minutes and repeat this cycle three more times.

Effects of stress ... ... On your body

Headache , Chest pain , Pounding heart , High blood pressure

Shortness of breath , Muscle aches , Back pain , Clenched jaws , Tooth grinding

Stomach upset , Constipation , Diarrhea , Increased sweating , Tiredness , Sleep problems

Weight gain or loss , Skin breakouts

Effects of stress ... ... On your mental setup

Anxiety , Restlessness , Worrying , Irritability , Depression , Sadness , Anger, Mood swings

Job dissatisfaction , Feeling insecure , Confusion ,Burnout

Forgetfulness, Resentment, Guilt, Inability to concentrate , Seeing only the negatives

Effects of stress ... ... On your behvaiour

Overeating , Undereating , Angry outbursts , Drug abuse

Excessive drinking , Increased smoking , Social withdrawal

Crying spells , Relationship conflicts , Decreased productivity , Blaming others

Meaning of Stress

Similarly stress is at the being level, heart and soul level – asking for attention.

Cause of Stress

The potential causes of stress are numerous and highly individual. What you consider stressful depends on many factors, including your personality, general outlook on life, problem-solving abilities, and social support system. Something that's stressful to you may not faze someone else, or they may even enjoy it. For example, your morning commute may make you anxious and tense because you worry that traffic will make you late. Others, however, may find the trip relaxing because they allow more than enough time and enjoy listening to music while they drive.

1. Excess Worry results in stress

2. Worry is negative inner chatter

3. What is this negative inner chatter about – meeting deadlines, planning, re-planning, impressing, need for attention, discontentment, fear, etc.

4. Negativity about anything is the root of worry.

1. Example if you suffer from a business failure due to some reasons, how will you react? You will feel sad that you met with failure, that is ok. But you will not stop at that. You will feel frustrated and angry and you will allow all sorts of things to enter into your head

“Oh, this is my bad period!” , “Everything I touch is sure to be a failure!”

“I am good for nothing!” , “Why am I always so unlucky?” , “What am I going to do? .. And so on..

Worry is a Habit

It is a HABIT. ! (A mental habit. At same time every morning you will produce the same chemicals even if you remind yourself you don't have to go to work...)

Just like how you are able to soak in laughter for a few seconds and let it permeate through every cell of your body, letting it continue to produce positive chemicals, letting it to heal, without resisting by moving on to next activity.

Similarly, the bad habit is to dwell, cling on to worry – we are soaking in the worry, soaking in the negativity. Helping the prolonged creation of negative chemicals.

We have become addicted to this heavy feeling instead of the light feeling.

It is just a habit. Like any habit it can be kicked.