Are you afraid of your possibility?
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Understand, it is because you carry the fear of your possibilities that you get into the space of 'impossible'.
Your patterns, your anxieties, everything, is directed only in one line – fear of your possibilities.
I can share an example from my own life.
I first had the experience of enlightenment at the age of twelve.
At that time, I was in love with the joy that I experienced from that state. Beyond this, there was no cognition of having reached the state of 'ultimate truth'. For something as huge as the experience of enlightenment, this cognition was incomplete.
After this experience, it still took ten years for my bio-memory to believe that what I had experienced was the ultimate truth, and settle with that possibility - because the biggest roadblock was the vast possibility that would follow the first experience!
It is not easy to believe in your own importance, the possibility you can actually be!
What is stopping it?
One day a young man prays to God, 'God, please make me win the lottery!'
He goes to sleep that night full of hope, but the next morning, nothing happens.
Again, that night, he prays, 'God, please bless me to win the lottery.'
Next morning, nothing happens.
Again that night, he prays, 'God, please let me win the lottery, I pray to you!' He cries bitterly.
Next morning, nothing happens.
This goes on for sixty years!
The man prays, prays and prays, but never wins the lottery.
Finally, one day, he is on his deathbed.
That day he really cries to God, asking God to appear before him.
So God appears and asks, 'My dear son, what do you want?'
'It's okay' is not okay!
How many times have you stopped yourself from achieving your highest potential, just out of the attitude of 'it's okay'?
'It's okay' are the words which can ruin your life! It's okay if I miss my tennis practice just today… it's okay if I have one more chocolate… it's okay if I cheat on her just this once… it's okay if I miss only one spiritual vow… and then finally, one day, anything is okay.
Don't think that you will directly start with big crimes! Loss of integrity always starts with a small 'It's okay'. Unconsciousness enters into your system only through small actions.
One of the great disciples of Sri Ramakrishna - Swami Brahmananda
- asked a young monk to leave the monastery simply because of the unconscious way in which he was found peeling potatoes in the ashram kitchen! Sannyas (monastic life) requires the highest degree of integrity, because once you take sannyas, you become responsible for the whole world.
Even if you feel as if you are having your own way when you say ‘It’s okay', be aware: it is just a state of powerlessness. Not performing to your