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The Essence of Living Enlightenment

Just own it

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Never think that becoming a leader will make you responsible.

Being responsible will make you a leader!

Ownership always creates leadership, because ownership always expands you.

There is no moment in life when you are not taking ownership anyway, for whatever you are doing – whether it is cooking a meal, or crossing a road, or signing a big business deal, or ruling a country. So why not take ownership consciously?

When you take responsibility consciously, it becomes a power and a joy.

Whether to flourish as an individual, or maintain a stable family, or work as part of an organizarion or support each other as a community, you need to take ownership.

If you are a housewife, take responsibility for that. If you are a professional, take responsibility for that! If you are a father, take responsibility for that. If you are a student, take responsibility for that. If you are a son, take responsibility for that. If you are a sannyasi, take responsibility for

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Your bigness frightens you

You always believe that you are suffocated by your smallness. NO! You are suffocated by your bigness! Whenever bigness is demanded of you, whenever you feel you are being 'forced' to expand, you shrink even further into your comfort zone. Your tiredness, your boredom, your weakness, your powerlessness – all these are nothing but the resistance you have to seeing your own bigness!

That is why, when someone tells you that you are weak, poor and a sinner, it is so easy to accept it. But if someone tells you that you are divine, you are powerful, you are complete, your whole identity starts trembling with fear!

But life always demands your expansion, because expansion is the natural law of life. That is why you carry such a deep fear of life, especially life in the form of other people – because people are the most living expression of Life! The more you engage with life, the greater the expansion that will be demanded of you.

You think all your responsibilities are like a solid hill sitting in front of you. No! They are just like a big balloon floating in front of you. You just need a little bit of authenticity or a small needle called initiation to burst

Even your thoughts are in your control

Understand: mind is an action! It is not a solid thing as you imagine. It is changing every moment – like walking or talking!

Suppose you are walking.

If you don’t want to walk, what do you do?

You just stop walking, that’s all!

If you are talking, and you don’t want to talk, what do you do?

You just stop talking and remain in silence.

In the same way, mind is also an action. If you don’t want to ‘do’ it, don’t do it, that’s all! When you can stop walking, stop talking, why not stop thinking?

But we never believe that we can stop our thoughts when we want! Especially the ‘professional seekers’ - they come and tell me, ‘No, no, no! I have tried for years! Controlling the mind is impossible!’

Please understand, mind is a very subtle action of yours. YOU are doing

What is Enriching?

Enriching!

The highest of all the sacred principles, because it infuses life into all the all the other three.

What is enriching? It is going one step further than integrity, authenticity and responsibility. Enriching alone can burn any lack of integrity, inauthenticity or irresponsibility in you! Because enriching means taking responsibility for everyone. It means taking responsibility to remove everyone's inauthenticity and lack of integrity.

About enriching, there is not much to say, because enriching is all about doing! Enriching not a theory; it is a way of life that you choose consciously. of healthy people, or make the people in your company healthy. In the same way, if you want to be spiritual, you should either be in the company of spiritual people, or make the people in your company spiritual!

When you are practicing these tattvas by yourself, you will remain only in practice mode. But when you are enriching, integrity and authenticity simply become a part of you. When you enrich, you start living the tattvas effortlessly. Only then can these tattvas become satyas or truths in you.

Diagram showing Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, and Enriching in a mandala tree design

When you want to work with your life and transform it, you have to work with others also. Enriching means taking responsibility for everyone! When you start enriching others, the cosmos flows through you. The joy happening in you, the inspiration happening in you, is pure cosmic energy. If you want to taste cosmic energy, just start enriching others today.

Enriching is a mirror

Enriching is like a mirror, because it holds your own mind up to your awareness.

Understand, human minds are not very different from one another! Though each of us would like to believe that we have unique and incomparable sufferings, the truth is that almost all human beings are caught in the same five or ten patterns! So the solutions are also similar for all.

For instance, if you are struggling with a problem, and you know the solution but your heart is not accepting it, start giving that solution to others; your heart will start accepting it! By enriching others, your own heart starts imbibing those truths.

Understand: your life is not just yours! This is the truth, whether you want it or not, whether you understand it or not, whether you believe it or not. This is the truth as long as others are involved in your life and you are involved in others' life! Only when you decide to continuously enrich yourself and others does life flow through you.

We have a very wrong idea, 'Let me first experience this truth, then I will start enriching others!’ This is like saying, ‘Let me first get cured; afterwards I will take the medicine!’

Understand: enriching, enriching, enriching, enriching is the cure! Enriching is the experience! Enriching is the technique. Enriching is the path and the goal. It is enriching which unclutches you from your past incompletions. It is enriching which makes you grow.

Activity

1. List down all the areas where you postpone enriching others because you are waiting for your own transformation first

2. In each case, find out how you can take responsibility of enriching others in those areas