RESPONSIBILITY MEANS EXPANDING YOUR POSSIBILITIES🔗

THURSDAY, 14TH MARCH 2013

Today, I will expand on the concept of Responsibility.

Responsibility means living, thinking, speaking, acting and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of everything happening inside and around you, and therefore you are responsible for all happenings inside and outside you!

Let me repeat. Responsibility means living, responding, thinking, speaking, acting and reacting to life from the truth that you are the source of everything happening in and around you, and therefore you are responsible for all the happenings in and around you.

The biggest question we now have in our mind is, ‘How can I be responsible for everything happening around me? I can be held responsible for what is happening inside me. How can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me? For example, if an accident happens in my life, how can I be responsible?'

Everybody asks this question. Let me answer you.

Sometimes, you may not be the reason for some happenings. But if it is affecting your life, you ARE responsible for those happenings. Just because you are not the reason as per your logic, you can't say that you are not responsible in truth. You may wonder, how can I be responsible? You need to know that unless you take responsibility, you are neither going to improve the situation, nor expand in inner space.

Vivekananda says very beautifully, 'Take more and more responsibility; your shoulders will become stronger and stronger.'

In any field, freedom is the basic condition for growth. Responsibility brings the experience of freedom. With responsibility, your consciousness expands. Every one of us is greedy for powers that leaders have, the powers that gods and higher souls have. But unfortunately, no one wants to take the responsibility for it. I tell you: the world has abundance. Neither the wealth nor the extraordinary powers are restricted when you take responsibility. When you start becoming responsible, powers, wealth, spiritual powers, all the auspicious things, start expressing through you intensely!

Listen! Let me define responsibility. Responding to you and the world from the best possibility is responsibility. Responsibility not only awakens leadership qualities in you but also awakens leadership consciousness in you. Qualities are different, consciousness is different. In the corporate life, in the outer world, if you are taking responsibility for some position or post, you may express leadership qualities. But only when you take responsibility for everything happening in and around you do you express leadership consciousness.

When you expand, expand and expand, the commitments and responsibilities you hold in your being for yourself go on expanding and expressing all the possibilities. You either react or respond. You only have two ways of relating with the world. If you feel that you are not responsible, you react. If you feel that you are responsible, you respond. When all your actions are responses and not reactions, you are a karma yogi; no karma binds you, you are living in completion and expressing completion. When you feel that you are not responsible, you react. Reacting puts you in bondage. Responding keeps you in completion!

Only when you express all the possibilities out of liberation cognition, are you living your life. Life is

lived when jeevanmukta sambhaavana, the space of possibility, the space of leadership becomes your lifestyle! I tell you, nothing else is required for you to be a leader; just leadership consciousness is enough. When Vivekananda walked the length and breadth of India, he did not have anything other than leadership consciousness in his life. But wherever he went, kings washed his feet, gave their own thrones for him to sit, received his blessings and guidance and requested his spiritual support.

It is responsibility which makes you realize all possibility. It is leadership consciousness which brings not just success, but fulfillment in you. I tell you, I have seen thousands of politicians who have power without having the state of leadership consciousness. Sometimes, people sit on the throne or get the power and become power centers, without having the state of a leader. I have seen them dying in depression or suffering in suffocation, due to the power! They never enjoy the power. Unless you achieve the state, the status is a liability! If you have not achieved the state, the status binds you and also brings suffering to others. The state of responsibility, the state of the leader, ishvaratva - leadership consciousness has to be achieved first.

When you do not carry the consciousness of leader, even if you get the powers of the leader, you are bound by it. You will also bind the people who come under you, accepting you as leader. This is one of the biggest diseases with which India is suffering. There are many seats which are occupied by people who are not responsible enough for the seat they occup. From the individual house, to official power, political power and media power - in every field, many people who have not achieved the state get the status. They become a liability!

Leadership consciousness is an independent intelligence; it cannot be hidden from others. Once you have it, the whole world will know that you have it; the world simply listens to you! You do not need any power, political strength or infrastructure for the world to know that you are a leader. Even if you walk on the street, you will stand tall - as a MAN among men. And the world will respect you!

I want all my swamis and swaminis to create their resume with a photograph! You can all post the way in which you want to express your unique character or energy. It should be published on the website. See, each one of you represent one ray of my energy. Somebody represents my intellect, somebody represents my devotion and somebody represents my being. Each one of you represents one ray of me.

Listen! If I am the sun, each one of you are the rays; each one of you represents a ray. So present yourself as the ray you represent - what you are offering to the world, what are the ways in which you are contributing and enriching the world. This is the statement you want to make to the world about yourself, the ahankara you are projecting. So, the anyakara of the world will start evolving around this. So be very clear on what you are!

And I tell you - you have the full freedom to declare that you are enlightened. You have complete freedom to declare this. Because when you declare, you are responsible, and you will have

to live it. You will have to demonstrate it. When you declare that you are enlightened, you should be able to stretch yourself to the anyakaras you create. Declaring enlightenment is not more power, it is more responsibility! Clear? So it is your individual choice. You can declare any day that you are enlightened. You are after all a swami now. You are an independent entity by existence. You can move the cosmos as you want. If the cosmos is not moving as you want, just create another one, that's all!

The space of positivity, possibility, ishvaratva and enlightenment is your space. So from there, you can declare anything you want, and make it into reality, in any way you want. And anybody who wants to be part of this order can start applying and preparing yourself to be part of this order. Great!

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share and explode in eternal bliss – Nithyananda!

Do not think that if you only enrich yourself, you will experience completion and fulfillment in life. No! Enriching others is a basic necessity of your life, for experiencing fulfillment. When you enrich those with whom life is happening to you, only then will life be complete and enriched for you. Enriching others making others life alive!