What's your customer feedback?
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Consider your life as an industry.
Your inner image is the product, how you project yourself to the outer world is your marketing and what others expect from you is the feedback you receive from customers.
If you were running an industry, how important would customer feedback be for you? Invaluable - because that is what is going to help you improve your product. But do you feel the same way about your life? Anyakara is your customer feedback! You need anyakara to develop your life.
So constantly get feedback and develop your product. Only then will you be relevant to life! That is how you will be alive and survive in the market. If you're working with humanity, this is the law of life! The moment you stop allowing feedback from the customers and developing your product accordingly, you are dead.
However big or established a brand you may be, if you stop receiving feedback from society and develop your inner identity, society will start rejecting you. Understand, if you don't take feedback from your customers, they will be giving their feedback to others - which is very dangerous! If you don't take customer feedback, others will get the feedback. It is very dangerous! Even without your knowing, your brand will be destroyed.
So anyakara is the most precious input for your growth.
•• Contemplation ••
Others' expectations from me is the most precious input for my growth.
Why do you become inauthentic? Because your past very powerfully tells you, 'You can never be authentic, I know all about you! I know how many times you gave a word and broke it; I know how many times you set a goal and missed it!'
Your past is like a comedian sitting inside you and making jokes about you and making you feel like a fool! You always want to be a hero. But so many times, you become a comedian instead, because your inner space constantly makes fun of you by quoting your past.
Courage to face your past, no matter what, is authenticity.
Listen: a man who is not tired of his own past is a jeevanmukta – he is living enlightenment. The day you start living without becoming tired of your past, without becoming inauthentic due to your past failures, you are a jeevanmukta.