Just listening can dissolve your conflicts🔗

Listen.

Constantly listening to your own inner space is beginning of integrity.

When you start listening to your inner space, you start practicing integrity. When your inner space says there is nothing more to listen, only silence - then it is end of integrity. You have achieved integrity. It means, all your blind spots have been brought before the light of your awareness; all your incompletions, all the conflicts in you, have dissolved in your listening.

As long as you are hearing something from your inner space, there is still some lack of integrity. When you hear only silence in your inner space, you have achieved integrity.

Go on listening. When you are talking, listen to you talking; when you are sitting, driving, walking - listen to that also. Tireless listening brings integrity to your life.

There is no separate practice to achieve integrity. When you listen deeply, whatever is there in you, but which is not YOU, is automatically destroyed.

Question: Dear Swamiji, the moment I sit and try to unclutch from my thoughts, I have more thoughts, more problems! How can I sit for meditation or unclutching?

How will you not have more thoughts and problems! Unclutching is not like switching off the electricity to your house. It is like cleaning, sweeping and scrubbing your house! First, listen to your inner space. That is the first step for unclutching, for meditation, for your life.

But even to unclutch, you need to be in a space of completion. When you are drowned in your past, when your past is sitting on you as a dead weight, you will never be able to listen. Only when you want to responsibly work on your future, you start listening. Please listen! The dead past never lets you listen. The past, by its very nature, does not have life, and if you try to indulge continuously in the past, it destroys the future also. Only when completion with yourself happens, you learn to listen.

Only when completion with yourself happens, you learn to listen.

All successful marketing philosophies & ideas are based on listening.

Modern-day marketing is no more aggressive. It is based on listening, not on shouting.

Don’t not force yourself on other person – pushing your product, your belief, your experience. Communication starts only when you start listening.

Don’t go with evangelistic arrogance. No! Go with compassion. Listen to the problem the other is facing. When you land on others with evangelistic arrogance, by your very arrogance you create a barrier.

Most of your relationships involve some marketing! So whether you are marketing yourself (as in a family relationship), marketing your different qualities (as in business relationships) or marketing your products (supplier-consumer relationship) - if you are handling a mind, be passive and learn to listen.

Then, even if you don’t offer any solution, the problem will be resolved.

Authenticity starts with listening, continues with listening and continues with listening. It never ends! Spiritual life itself starts with listening. Human beings miss life when they miss listenin.

J. Krishnamurthy says, 'Listening is God.' Buddha’s first teaching is 'Right listening'. In Vedanta, the first principle is 'shravana' – listening! The second principle is 'manana' – internalizing. The third principle is 'nidhidhyasana' – living it and radiating it.

Sit with authenticity, and listen. Listen. Listening is GOD! Just by listening, you experience God! If you are just listening to the sparrow’s sound without giving any meaning to it, it is God. Pure listening is God. Only if you learn pure listening, you will be able to get the right meaning of anything. Listen, listen and listen! You will see miraculous transformations happening in your body and mind.

Learn to sit with nature and simply listen – to the river, to the birds, to the wind. Pure listening, without a need to gain information, can deepen your listening immensely.