You are not born with your patterns🔗

One of the biggest problems that people face is, ‘I understand what is right and what is wrong, but I forget and do my own thing!’ This is the one complaint I hear from everybody every day! You understand what is right and what is wrong, but when it comes to actions, you act as per the old patterns. You always feel powerless in front of your patterns, because you feel that they are who you are.

No! Please understand, you are NOT born with the patterns with which you are living now! When you are not born with a certain pattern, it means that it is created in you. Anything that is created can be changed. You CAN destroy the old pattern and create a new one. But constantly, for years and years, you go on complaining – ‘I know what is right and what is wrong. But I cannot do, I cannot understand, I cannot change..!’

For all the people who think like this, I have a story:

One guy, during lunchtime in his office, opens his lunch box and says, “Oh God, today again the same potato, brinjal and tomato rice.” Anyhow. he eats it.

Next day, he again opens his lunch box and starts crying, “Same potato, brinjal and tomato rice!” All his friends feel sorry for him. When you go deeper and deeper, you understand there is only one problem – your resistance to the flow of life. If you go deeper, you will realize, even that is not there. Everything is just your own imagination.

When you don’t know the root cause, or the first time you started responding the way you are responding now, you are called ignorant. If you know when you started the responses you are having now, and the root cause of those responses, you are called enlightened. When you can live beyond all the beginnings of all your responses, you are called an incarnation!

When you go to the root of your problems, all your problems are attended to.

Only on a superficial level does it look like there are many problems. When you go deeper, you will find that there is no problem other than your belief that you have a problem.

Understand: the moment you associate yourself with a pattern, it teaches you to suspect everything other than itself! Pattern becomes independently intelligent the moment your presence graces the pattern.

When the pattern is not touched by you, when you don’t associate with it, suddenly you see that the pattern doesn’t have life. Please catch the truth. When it doesn’t have your presence to infuse life into it, the pattern cannot exist. The moment you associate yourself with it, the pattern gets life. Now it becomes independently intelligent. It starts playing, making you suspect everything other than itself.

That is why, when you find somebody else with a problem, it is very easy to lift them out of that problem. But when you are facing the same problem, you will be struggling. You are not even able to remain balanced. Because when you are facing the problem, you will not be able to see outside of the problem, outside of your pattern. The doors of your intelligence shut down when you are operating from a pattern.

Listen: anything which is extension of your personality is your own muscle. Anything which is forced out from you suddenly is cancer! Being unaware of your purpose is no excuse for irresponsibility. Not knowing only means that somewhere, secretly, you are still comfortable with your patterns.

You are not yet feeling the suffocation of your patterns.

How often do you say, 'I did it unknowingly'? The next time this happens, can you find out what patterns are at work here?

Trying a new response to a pattern weakens the hold of the pattern on you.

Even for your physical patterns or problems, start trying out new ways of responding. Start responding to them newly. When you are feeling really tired, when you are sick, when your body is hurting, just jump out of the bed, go for a run. See, actually, when you do that kind of thing, all your muscles and your bio-memory will simply wake up, just out of the survival need!

Same way, when you are cornered, put into depression, criticized, shattered, just go into meditation and unclutch from it, detach yourself from it. Because that is the response you have never tried before! Start a new way of responding.

See, the new way of responding is always very juicy. For example, when you are depressed, you usually pull your blanket up to your nose and sleep! Instead, just decide, I will jump out of the bed with energy and power. If you can do this once, even if your depression comes up again, you will not allow the old way of response anymore.

Breaking just one pattern makes it easier to break all your patterns! If you

Let me first define the concept of rebirth.

Listen! You have had many bodies and many minds. You have had many bodies through many minds, and many minds through many bodies! Just to pass through one pattern, you would have taken twenty bodies. Just to pass through one body, you would have taken many minds. Sometimes, with one body you go through twenty minds, sometime without even changing a single mind, you would have gone through twenty bodies.

Understand, I am not talking only about many bodies. So many bodies have passed. You need to understand that in so many bodies you lived with one mind, and with so many minds you lived in so many bodies. Sometimes, with many minds, you are still not liberated. Sometimes, with one mind, you are liberated from so many patterns. The moment you understand this, you have the power to transcend this bondage, this vicious circle. Now you have the power to be liberated from this.

Whenever a new way of response starts in you, one new janma (birth) starts in you. For example, suppose in every situation of your life, you always made the response of fear, withdrawing, non-confrontation or non-involvement. Suddenly you decide, from today I am taking the

For the next 48 hours, try responding to every situation you encounter in a new way. In some situations, it will be easy. In others, it will seem impossible. The responses that you are struggling to change point to where your patterns are hiding.

Never ever believe your beliefs. You respect your beliefs too much! Listen: all your beliefs are just a result of your patterns. All your beliefs are based on only one or two incidents of your life. For the remaining part of your life, you simply hang on to your beliefs and refuse to see anything that falls outside of your beliefs. After some time, you even stop acknowledging anything that doesn’t align with your beliefs!

Infuse awareness into all your beliefs. Become aware of all the ideas you carry about you. Become aware of your typical responses. Question all your ideas, all your responses. Don’t even bother about whether that belief has served you well in the past or not. Continuously break free of all your beliefs, all your patterns. One month is more than enough to see a change in yourself.

Every time you question a strong belief that you hold, you will start creating a new idea about you. Just by cancelling all the wrong definitions you have created about you, you can go on creating a new you.

# Are your patterns taking your decisions?

Look into how you make decisions in your life. Ask yourself - is it out of my mental pattern or will power or discrimination? Ask yourself - am I doing this out of an honest, truthful, right space? Am I taking decisions out of consciousness, out of spiritual strength? Or am I at least acting out of discrimination?

The poorest way of taking decisions is from your mental patterns.

Discrimination is, seeing the larger truths of life and making decisions. It means you will be completely honest and integrated to the highest truths of life in that situation. For example, someone has stolen something. If he is trying to hide even after being caught, he is strengthening that pattern. But if he says, let me be honest. I will be punished once, but at least I will be out of this pattern for lifetimes! - this is discrimination.

So move from one step to the next. If you are taking decisions out of mental patterns, move to intention. If you are taking decisions out of intention, move to discrimination. If you are in at least in the level of discrimination, then I can move you to Consciousness!

Go to the root of every response. Find out when you started creating that particular response in you.

There may be ten qualities in you, positive and negative qualities, like courage, depression, insecurity, confidence – so many qualities. When did you start developing those qualities? Means, when did you start responding in this way to these problems?

Go to the root. Find out when that pattern took birth in you. That was the time this version of you took birth!

Go to the root of every pattern you have and see when you started responding in that way. Now decide, from now on, you will not assume any pattern. You will assume only the flow which liberates you. Make a conscious decision to respond only from consciousness, from pure spiritual freedom.

See, when you function in a liberating way, you will radiate all auspicious qualities, but you will not even know it! You will not think you have those qualities, but others will think that you have those qualities! But you will radiate all of them!

1) Make a list of all the patterns you are struggling with, and classify them as 'strong', 'medium' and 'weak', based on the hold they have over you.

2) Now, start working first through the weak patterns. Resolve to stop responding through these patterns. After a few weeks, you will see that you would have broken many weak patterns and are ready for the next level.

3) Now move to the 'medium' patterns and repeat the process; lastly with the strong patterns.

In this way, you will be successfully breaking your patterns, and you will also the courage and confidence in yourself to break stronger and stronger patterns. can fulfil you, immediately reduces you to the level of matter.

But you are not matter - you are Life!

Only Life can infuse life into matter; matter cannot infuse life into Life! Only you can infuse value into anything that is outside you; nothing that is outside you can infuse value into You. Whether you realize it or not, you are complete unto yourself. Then why do you look to something external to complete you?

The only incompletion you are really carrying is not knowing that you are already complete! It is this one incompletion that expresses itself as your fear, your greed, your anger, your jealousy and your depression.

I am not saying that success is wrong, wealth is wrong. But pursuing them out of a feeling of incompletion is wrong.

Incompletion is poison in your life. It is incompletion that drives you to take one birth after another. Any incomplete action is karma. It will pull you again and again to repeat that action till you achieve completion.

Completion makes you tremendously powerful, too powerful to be intoxicated by success or defeated by failure.