Giving back to Life🔗

There is a beautiful verse in the Bhagavad Gita, which says:

"Satisfied with selfless service, the celestial beings certainly award you the desired necessities of life. He who enjoys the things given by them without offering to the celestial beings is certainly a thief."

This verse beautifully explains how anything you receive without enriching is stolen from the Cosmos! If you don't perform the ritual of ‘yajna’ and give back whatever you can to the Divine energy, you are a thief! When Krishna talks about selfless service, he does not mean that you just have to pour offerings into the fire; he means performing right action.

For example, if you are cutting a tree, plant at least five more trees to enrich your environment. If you are taking water from a river, make sure that the water is purified and recycled and added back to the river. Constantly enriching the source and keeping it alive for the next generation is real yajna. Do not touch anything which is or will be irreplaceable. Don't use non-renewable energy sources. Use only renewable energy sources. That is yagna, enriching.

Krishna is very clear - if you are not enriching, but only receiving and enjoying, you are a thief! Asteya or non-stealing, one of the most important vows of sannyas, can be maintained only by enriching.

Only when you continuously enrich others, non-stealing is maintained. Enriching is where life happens to you. Enriching makes the other three tattvas (principles) into satyas (truth).

Constantly enriching the source and keeping it alive for the next generation is yajna, enriching. life happens to you with these two. Even if you are a Naga ascetic in the forest, life happens to you with the forest.

Listen: with whatever life happens to you, you should start enriching it. You should start protecting it. That is why the Hindus are so devoted to the rivers Ganga and Yamuna, and the Himalayas, because life happened to them with the Himalayas, Ganga and Yamuna. That is why they are so sincere in keeping them alive and enriching them.

Integrity and authenticity are the way you relate with the avyakta, the unmanifest part of God. Responsibility and enriching are the way you relate with vyakta, the manifest part of God.

Please understand, if you are not consciously enriching, you unconsciously create selfish patterns. Be very clear, you are either giving or you are swindling. There is no middle path. So go on enriching with these tattvas. Enriching is en-reaching, reaching out to Life. Enriching Life is life! And remember, whatever you enrich enriches you in turn.

1. List down the top five fields where you are active - your job, your relationship, your passion, your business etc.

2. Find out five ways in which you can enrich the stakeholders in each of these areas beyond what you receive from them.

3. For next one month take up enriching as a lifestyle. Try your best to do good to everyone you see. any tapas! How can I bless someone? How can it work?' Don't worry about all that.

Just decide that for the next one month, enriching is your life-breath. Whoever you see, always try to do what best you can for them. I tell you, all your past karmas will be washed away. You will have vak siddhi, the power to make your words into reality.

This exercise is the solution for any problem that you are facing in your life. Whether you have marital problems, business problems or wealth problems, just decide to go on blessing people from your heart for the next one month. It will change your very aura. It will change the way the cosmos responds to you and the way you respond to the cosmos. When you become part of the constitution of the cosmos, miracles will start happening to you, through you and around you.

Please understand: integrity is the root, authenticity is the tree, responsibility is the fruit and enriching is sharing the fruit which creates more fruit. In enriching you also enrich yourself. So, enriching is enjoying the fruit and sowing the seed for more fruits to happen!

Go on enriching, go on enriching.

I tell you, extraordinary powers will support you and express through you.