Tune in to your peak identity🔗

Listen: your mamakara has experience-power. Your ahankara has expression-power.

Your mamakara has the experience-power - experiencing what you think and feel as you. Your ahankara has expression-power - declaring yourself and asserting yourself. When there is lack of integrity, both of them are separate, and when you are integrated, both of them are the same.

Again and again, strengthen your mamakara with the qualities you project as ahankara. Strengthen your ahankara by using all the thinking -power that mamakara has. Integrate both of them - whatever you think of as you, and whatever you project as you - and you will become that! Infuse all the qualities of ahankara into your mamakara. If you are declaring to the world you are strong and intelligent, make that your mamakara too.

Aligning your mamakara to your ahankara is integrity, because what you project as you will always be higher than what you believe as If there are some great qualities in your Inner Image, you need to raise your Outer Image to match that. If there are some great qualities in the Outer Image you project, you need to raise your Inner Image to match that which you project. Use the worksheet to continuously tune yourself to your peak identity.

Many people ask me, 'Swamiji, I understand that I am responsible for what I feel as me, and how I project myself to others. But why should I take the responsibility for others' expectations from me?'

Listen!

I wanted all of you to understand a very subtle truth.

You are responsible even for what others believe you to be for them.

Whether you realize it or not, you are continuously, subtly, co-operating with others' perceptions about you, so you become responsible for them. For example, you may be thinking of yourself as an ordinary man, but you may project yourself to others as a great saint. Now, some people may believe you to be a saint, some may think you are an ordinary man, and some others may believe you to be a fraud! But for each one's belief, you are responsible, because you subtly cooperate with it.

A girl may unknowingly respond to all the signals of a boy through her body language. But when he approaches her, she says, 'I never encouraged you!' You may not be saying anything in words, but even if you are everyone who has expectations from you, and making them having that expectation! Some of your words, or your body language, is responsible for their having that expectation from you. Knowingly or unknowingly, you have given a commitment to them, for which you are responsible.

Until you understand this, you will be carrying your protest against others' expectations like a thorn in your flesh. The question Why Why Why Why Why Why Why? will be constantly going on inside you like an ambulance siren!

This one understanding will take away all the suffering and agitation you carry about fulfilling others' expectations.

Write down the several things you have done because of someone else's expectation, but later found that you have yourself longed to do the same, although you dared not make an attempt e.g. swimming in a pool forgetting your phobia; singing your favourite song in front of a crowd.