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Unclutch as a Couple!

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How to be unclutched as a couple? You will be able to be a couple without friction only if you are first able to unclutch yourself. Body and mind are just like husband and wife. If you know how to clutch and unclutch your body and mind without creating friction and within yourself, you will know how to clutch and unclutch with your spouse.

What the mind wants is different from what the body wants. What a man wants from a relationship is different from what a woman wants. The man has to decide to become a woman to be in a relationship. Likewise, a woman has to decide to be a man to be in a relationship. The woman should understand she should become a man and give what a man wants; Man should understand he should become a woman and share what a woman wants. The Mind should understand to become the body and stand by the body as it wants. The Body should understand the mind and stand by the mind as it wants.

Lets use the term “Samsar is Samsar”. It is the greatest Samsar when you understand how to be in the other’s space. All great things are achieved by effort. You need to spend time and energy to understand. Understanding is the shortest route. For a good relationship, you need to input some work. You need to be sensitive about the whole thing. A Relationship is not a business. It is not a bargain. It is an art where you need to spend time, energy, intelligence, and creativity!

Relationships do have many benefits. If you are interested in a relationship, you will have to work for it. Working with the relationship itself is a sadhana (spiritual practice).

Learn to be unclutched so that you can be intensely, lovingly, and deeply clutched without friction. The extraordinary joy of sharing love can become a lifestyle for couples when you just know how to unclutch and know where to set the boundaries – Where the other person needs you and where you need yourself. The whole fight is always within.

Your need to be yourself and the other person’s need for yourself actually never clashes, but you create it in your imagination saying it clashes. Then saying “No” to the other person becomes an important identity for you! You start building your identity whenever you say “No” to the other person or when you torture the other person. Thousands of marriages break everyday just because of this misunderstanding – believing that saying “No” to the other person is saying “Yes” to yourself. When you say “No” to the other in ignorance, you are actually saying “No” to yourself. Because you don’t really look in and ask: ‘Am I really saying Yes for me or am I just saying “No” for the sake of saying “No” to the other person?’ If you look in, you will realize that the “Yes” to the other person and the “Yes” in you never clash with each other. You need to know, understand and remember this basic truth. Saying “No” the other person is not always saying “Yes” to you and saying “Yes” to you is not always saying “No” to the other person.

Even if you have made the decision of marriage out of ignorance, don’t continue to live in ignorance. Ignorance can be destroyed. That is the greatness of ignorance.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourse on the Patanjali Yoga Sutras in March, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada

The Story of Saint Dakshinamurthy

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This is the story of a great saint called Dakshinamurthy Swamigal, a Paramahamsa who always lived a life of freedom and a very highly evolved enlightened being from the southern part of India who used to sit in the forest under a banyan tree. His presence was so intense and powerful that one could touch and see God.

One day the official poet of the king’s court sang thousand verses on Saint Dakshinamurthy praising the power and the heroic qualities of that Master, conferring upon him the honor named ‘bharani’ which is the honor given to great warriors who kill one thousand elephants in the war. When the king came to know about this his ego got hurt because the king was the only guy who had killed thousand elephants in the war in the whole region and so he was the only guy who had that song and title. Now the deeply hurt king called the poet and asked him to justify his decision of singing the same thousand songs about that naked beggar who was sitting under the banyan tree and threatened him that else he would cut the poet’s head. The poet calmly explained that he did not have any reason or justification but was not afraid to die since his body and mind had already experienced whatever maximum peak could be experienced in the saint’s presence and in the best interest of the king asked him to visit the saint just once and sit in his presence.

Fortunately, even though the king was caught by ego, got inspired by the many stories he had heard about enlightened beings in the earlier times and decided to visit the saint. The king went with his whole paraphernalia to visit the saint sitting under the banyan tree. There was such an intense vibrating silence. The moment king entered the Banyan tree’s shadow, something happened in him. If a person observed an intense silence in the master’s body language, whether they want it or not, it will penetrate their inner space. This is what happened to the king who had originally come with the idea of shouting at or questioning the saint.

The transmission of silence happened between the Master and the king. All that the king received was one nod by the Master indicating ‘sit’. The king sat and because the king sat, the whole army sat and Master again resumed into the silence. The silence was so intense that neither did the king want to break it nor he had the energy or guts to break it. Even after a week had passed, beyond logic the king did not feel any thirst or hunger or even the idea of time. And the story says after one week, the Master was so compassionate that he just moves his eyes, looks to his poet, his disciple and in a very jovial way says that he thought the kingdom needed the king back. He smiles and suddenly all of them come back to the normal mind or mood. They realized one week had passed; there was no thought, no communication, no food or water or sleep, but only deep fulfillment physically, mentally and spiritually.

History says that the king built a beautiful huge temple and mutt under the same banyan tree in the place in southern India known as Thiruvarur. And in the temple he had this whole story engraved with his earnest sharing of how he ended up requesting the poet to write more on the saint since one thousand verses of ‘bharani’ looked too less for him.

Based on Nithyananda’s teachings

Message for 2013: Enrich with Enlightenment

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This year’s core message with which we will all work is “Enriching with Enlightenment!”

This simple statement has many layers – enriching yourself, enriching others, enriching the whole world with enlightenment! Bring integrity into the words which you utter to others and to yourself. Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself and the way others experience you. Bring responsibility in your inner space for every happening. Drop the past record; past track never gives you the confidence for future possibilities. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you. The excitement does not happen in you. Past record always brings a deep sorrow because past record by its nature is death. Possibility by its very nature is life.

These four words are the keys to enrich with enlightenment: Integrity, authenticity, responsibility, enriching.

Integrity means integrity in the words and the thoughts. You should have integrity in the words you utter to others and to yourself. Stand by your word. When you are ready to give your life for the words you utter, those words will become reality.

Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself and for others to perceive you. Enrich yourself with authenticity. When you have integrity and authenticity, when you are ready to give your life to fulfill your words, the cosmos itself intervenes and fulfills your words.

Responsibility empowers you. Whenever you feel responsible for everything that is happening, all the problems get dissolved and just disappear. An important secret to feel responsible without becoming powerless is – never give up on people! I never give up on people even when they give up on me. I continue to work on them.

Take this as an important key. This is the math of life, the number of people on whom you have given up are the negatives in your life, and the people you have still not given up on are the positives of your life. Make the balance sheet of your life. This will decide whether you are in profit or loss, whether you are in success or failure. Whether you are a failure or a success is not decided by the incidents but by your spirit. Nothing has been lost if you have not lost the inspiration.

What are a few years? Time is eternity. I am going to be available continuously here for eternity even after I leave the body. When I am in the body I will be doing this, when not in the body, I will do same thing in a different plane. Similarly, you will be doing this when you are in this body and you will do the same thing when you leave the body in a different plane. If inspiration is lost then everything is lost. By the divine grace of Kala Bhairava, Mahadeva, we have not lost inspiration. So nothing is lost!

Life happens to you outside. Life happens to you in relation to others, not with you. Enrich them. Only by enriching them your life gets enriched. Don’t be selfish, your life does not happen to you only inside you. Let’s see experientially where life is happening to you. You have to stand where your experience of life is. Experience of life happens to you based on others. Unless you enrich others with enlightenment, your life is not going to be completely enriched with enlightenment. If you have to learn only one thing from me, learn that I never give up on people. If you give up on people very soon you will give up on yourself. You will lose your confidence.

Enriching with enlightenment means enrich yourself and others with these four great truths – integrity, authenticity, responsibility, enriching, and not giving up. Let the whole universe be enriched with enlightenment.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Discourse given to a live audience on 1st January, 2013 in Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore

Satyakama, the Seeker of Truth

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Enlightenment can happen now, at this moment. It is only a matter of being receptive. The Master is a gateway to eternal consciousness. It is up to the seeker to have the courage, determination and intelligence to take the first step in the right direction. Thousands of parables exist in the vedic texts about the lives of seekers and the paths they must travel to reach the ultimate goal – that is, moksha or liberation. One such story is that of Satyakama, from the Chandogya Upanishad.

Satyakama was a boy who lived in the dense forests of India with his mother Jabala. He had an intense desire to learn meditation and know the nature of the brahman. His search for a guru took him to the sage Gautama. The sage asked him, “Of what family are you, my boy?” Satyakama fearlessly answered, “My mother said that I should tell you that her name is Jabala and my name is Satyakama – and I know nothing more about my family. So I am Satyakama Jabala.” Appreciating his honesty and courage to speak the truth, the sage accepted him as a student.

The next day, sage Gautama initiated Satyakama into a meditation to quiet his mind. This was the first step to the knowledge of the Brahman, brahma vidya – knowing the self. After teaching Satyakama to meditate, Gautama did something that was very unusual. He took Satyakama to the pasture where hundreds of cows were grazing. To Satyakama’s surprise, Gautama separated out four hundred thin, weak cows. He then told Satyakama that he was about to enter a different type of journey. He instructed Satyakama to take the cows to another part of the forest and to tend to them carefully. He was to return after the cows had multiplied to a thousand. Satyakama had many doubts in his heart, but in deference to the guruvaak (His Guru’s words), he left the gurukul with the cows for the deepest part of the forest.

Deep in the forest, Satyakama lost all sense of time. At first he felt lonely, but soon he sought companionship in his cows and the surrounding nature and forgot even the human language. His mind had become completely silent and even the very goal of his journey was forgotten. He began enjoying his life in the forest. He became one with the nature around him and completely alive in the moment, lost in ecstasy and joy. He carefully tended the cows. His cows ate fresh grass and drank pure water from the streams and soon became very healthy. Satyakama stayed in the deep forest for many years, living a peaceful and happy life, so much so that he even forgot his goal of returning to his guru with a thousand cows. Satyakama never felt alone. Every living creature became a part of his family. When the time had come to return, a cow approached Satyakama to inform him that they were now a thousand in number, and that they should return to the Master.
Satyakama traveled back to the gurukul with the cows, and upon seeing them all, the Master exclaimed that now one thousand and one cows had returned. In other words, Satyakama himself had lost all sense of his former identity, and had simply become one of the cows. The Master simply pronounced the Vedic declaration for enlightenment – ‘Tat Tvam Asi’, or ‘Thou art that’. Satyakama was so empty of identity, and in a state of such pure listening, that the Master’s words just penetrated his being and became a reality in him. In that moment, Satyakama got enlightened.

The Master has the power to create the right situation in which a disciple can flower. It is through the guidance and instruction of an enlightened master that a seeker can reach the state of the ultimate bliss. Satyakama also had doubts, like any spiritual seeker, but he had the intelligence to listen to his Master’s words and the courage to practice the Guru’s instruction. In this way, Satyakama was able to transcend the plane of the mundane and reach a higher level of consciousness. The Master is a vessel for our own transformation, but the disciple must take the first step. Once that step is taken, then the possibility towards enlightenment, eternal bliss, becomes a reality.

Taken from Nithyananda’s teachings. The story is from the Chandogya Upanishad.

Cool the Summer with Cucumbers!

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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a vegetable that belongs to the gourd family. It is one of the oldest cultivated vegetables and is believed to have originated in northern India. Cucumber has a high water content, vitamins A, B, C and minerals like magnesium, potassium, and silica, that makes it a healthy choice for both cooking and snacking.

Here are a few benefits of this wonder vegetable.

Keeps the body hydrated – Cucumber is 96% water. Adding cucumber to the diet helps in keeping the body hydrated, regulating body temperature and flushing out toxins from the body.
Skin care – The high water content, vitamins and minerals present in cucumber make it an essential part of skin care. Facial masks containing cucumber juice can be used for skin tightening. Cucumber juice mixed with juice of a lemon and crushed mint leaves is a wonderful cooling and rejuvenating face-pack, especially in summers. Keeping sliced cucumber on the eyes diminishes puffiness and dark circles. The cooling sensation relaxes tired eyes.
Controls blood pressure – Cucumber juice contains a lot of potassium, magnesium and fiber that work effectively for regulating blood pressure. This makes cucumber good for treating both low and high blood pressure.
Aids in digestion – Digestive disorders like acidity, heartburn, gastritis and even ulcers can be cured by drinking fresh cucumber juice daily. The high water content and dietary fiber in cucumber are very effective in driving away the toxins from the digestive system. Daily consumption of cucumbers is an effective remedy for chronic constipation.
Promotes joint health – Cucumber is an excellent source of silica, which is known to promote joint health by strengthening connective tissue. Cucumber juice when mixed with carrot juice, can relieve gout and arthritis pain by lowering the uric acid levels.
Acts as a diuretic – Cucumber acts as a diuretic due to the high water content. It encourages the elimination of waste products from the body through urination.

When buying cucumbers, ones that are firm to touch and dark green in color should be chosen. Overly matured or yellow colored ones are not to be bought, as they may contain more insoluble fiber and mature seeds, which are difficult to digest.

Why Do We Repeat Our Mistakes?

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The lives of most people are nothing but a series of repetitive patterns. We wake up in the morning, get ready in the same pattern, go to office in the same pattern, eat food in the same way, and every decision we take is based on the same ideas, in a pattern. Even responses to people and life situations are rarely different; people react in a predetermined manner when they meet a friend or colleague. In some situations, this causes a lot of damage because people even repeat the same mistakes again and again without being able to understand why that happens. In certain challenging situations, there is a lack of ease and the person feels powerless unable to come up with intelligent solutions at that moment.

Even though man thinks he is the one in control of his life, unless he infuses awareness into his engraved memories, it is the patterns that actually run each person’s life. Not surprisingly, very often people find that their lives look like complete chaos inspite of all their efforts to put everything in order.

We need to pause and think about what these patterns are, and why they exist in the lives of people, controlling their every action. When memories of certain unpleasant incidents are etched inside a person, they begin to run the person’s life. These engraved memories are the “patterns” that take control of the person’s mind. Every thought or action becomes controlled by the impact of these memories. For example, a child who was laughed at when performing on stage will grow up to be an adult who is always afraid of being ridiculed in public. Every time he has to go up in public, the fear of being ridiculed will present itself either subtly or vividly, making him wary or being in the spotlight. He may not be aware that he experiences the fear because of the childhood incident, but that is the actual reason – the pattern – which is the root cause of his fear.

There are three ways that infuse life into an engraved memory. The first is when the memory is acted upon. When a person acts on the memory of something, he begins to give life to that memory, without being able to perceive the situation as it is happening. Every action that he carries out will have its roots in the memory of a previous incident and not in the present situation. It is for this reason that the same kind of responses happen again and again, and the same mistakes are repeated.

Another instance that can bring an engraved memory to life when someone encounters a person or situation that awakens any negative emotion like anger, lust or jealousy in him or her. When there are such emotions, even if they are not acted upon, just being in the breathing space of that individual, or in that situation, can infuse life into the engraved memory. The final instance is that of leaving the physical body, or death. When a person encounters death, all his engraved memories are awakened and re-lived.

Break Free of Patterns!

This vicious circle of getting caught in a pattern can be broken by disassociating oneself from the engraved memory. Once someone understands that his response is coming from some engraved memory, he can be aware of his response the next time a similar situation presents itself, and instead of acting in the routine way he can respond differently, consciously disassociating himself from the engraved memory. This makes the memory lose its power over the person. Awareness breaks the vicious circle of repetitive mistakes and creates the space for transformation.

Taken from the collected talks of Nithyananda on the Bhagavad Gita on the subject of “patterns”,  delivered to a live audience in the year 2011 in the Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore

“I” Builds Your Identity

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All of you have a certain concept of individuality. How it gets developed – you need to understand that. The very identity you create as ‘I’ is nothing but lot of threads put together. See, just like how a piece of cloth is a lot of threads put together, weaved in a complicated way, the same way, every time you utter the idea ‘I’, that becomes one thread. More and more number of times you utter the word ‘I’ and assert the identity, that many threads form your identity-cloth. And wherever you assume that identity strongly, that kind of color is given to that cloth. The fabric out of which your identity is made is the very utterance of ‘I’. The number of times you utter I, I, I – that becomes the thread. As many times as you utter, that many times the threads get intertwined and becomes the identity, and you start wearing the cloth. And unfortunately, you start thinking that you are the cloth itself!

The only way to cause the confused ‘I’ to disappear is – stop uttering more and more words that speak ‘I’. Editing the word ‘I’ in all your conversations can be a powerful initial spiritual practice, because that stops the power supply for the cloth to get strengthened or colored. The supply of identity will stop when you stop using the word ‘I’ both in outer conversation and inner conversation also. Please understand, you need to stop using ‘I’ both outside and inside – both are required.

Taken from the morning discourse of Nithyananda delivered on 9th January, 2012 in Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore, India

Meditation for Serenity

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An agitated mind is like a boat with the oarsmen pulling it in different directions. It causes stress and confusion. An agitated mind struggles with conflicting thoughts – fear of the past and greed for the future. These thoughts often lead to bad decisions. A continuous pattern of agitation is like an infection or a disease. It leads to ill health and mental stress. It can also infect others in the society, leading to a breakdown in relationships.

In the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6, Dhyan Yoga, verses 13-14, Shri Krishna gives the direct technique for being centered in oneself and attaining serenity.

Chapter 6, verse 13
samam kaaya-shiro-greevam dhaarayan-achalam sthiraha |
samprekshya naasikaagram svam dishash-chaanava-lokayan ||

“Holding the entire body, the neck and the head in a steady manner, look intensely at the tip of the nose without being distracted in any way.” This is a powerful posture in which Samadhi can be experienced.

Chapter 6, verse 14
prashaantaatmaa vigata-bheehi brahmachaarivrate sthitaha |
manaha samyamya macchittaha yukta aaseetha matparaha ||

Lord Krishna further instructs – “Being serene within oneself, abstaining from apprehensions, having subdued from the thoughts, intent on the vow of living like a God, intensely reflecting on Me, live your life, devoted to Me.”

Being serene within oneself is to stop having an agitated mind. An agitated mind destroys health and causes deep distress in the old age. Abstaining from apprehensions is to be free from thoughts of fear and greed. And having subdued thoughts is to reduce the number of thoughts. Shri Krishna also instructs his devotees to follow the vow of celibacy or brahmacharya vrata, and to live a life intensely reflecting on Him and live a life devoted to Him.

This is a direct instruction from an incarnation to human beings to save themselves. If a person is drowning and he is given this instruction by the captain of the ship, the person cannot stop to question the captain. Similarly, this is a direct and unquestionable instruction from an incarnation to human beings to save themselves.

Taken from Nithyananda’s morning discourse on Bhagavad Gita on 11th September, 2012

Money = Maya

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Money is the most illogical thing that all logical people on planet earth believe! The greatest superstition on planet is not God, it is money. Money is the greatest parama maya – the worst collective delusion. created by human beings. In truth, whatever you have is by chance. So why should somebody be called as millionaire, somebody as billionaire, somebody beggar? No reason. A few people who want to exploit others gathered together and created the concept of holding, created the concept of money. Then unconsciously, every fellow started following it. Whoever rebelled against it was killed and controlled in the name of law. In the course of time, the whole world was drowned. They had forgotten that they have created the superstition called money! In the movie Matrix, the artificial intelligence created by human beings takes over human beings. Same way, the superstition called money created by human beings has taken over human beings.

So whenever you are handling money, be very clear: “This is the language the world understands, but I am not going to believe it as a power. I am something more than all my wants. All my wants put together is not equivalent to me, it is only a part of me. Money can bring the cot I want, it can bring the food I want. But it cannot bring me what I really am.” When you are feeling gratified with whatever is obtained by chance, your inner space drops from the world’s largest superstition.

Taken from the morning discourse of Nithyananda delivered on 14th March, 2012 in Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore, India

Responsibility Makes You A Leader!

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You are the Source of Everything!

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

The biggest question we have now in our minds is, ‘How can I be responsible everything happening around me? I can be responsible for what is happening inside me. How can I be responsible for what is happening outside me? For example, if an accident happens in my life, how can I be responsible for it?’ Everybody asks this question. Let me answer you.

Three kinds of people

The person who does not feel responsible even for his own actions is an animal – he lives in a very low consciousness. The person who feels responsible for his own actions is a human being – he lives in a middle level consciousness. The person who takes responsibility even for others’ actions is divine – he lives in leadership consciousness – ishvaratva. 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 you are not responsible in truth.

Everybody asks me, ‘Swamiji, how can we be responsible for things for which we are not the reason?’ Being a reason or cause is different; being responsible is different. Sometimes you may not be directly the cause or the reason, but when you understand you are responsible, you will be able to solve it.

You may wonder how you can be responsible. You need to know – unless you take responsibility, neither you are going to improve the situation, nor going to expand in your 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.

Feeling Responsible is Life!

Feeling you are responsible is not just a methodology or technique to increase your productivity in the corporate circles, or making you a responsible citizen for the sake of the country. No! I am not funded by any state or corporate. I am supported by the cosmos! I am not against you being a responsible employee, but I am not teaching responsibility only to make you a responsible employee, or only to make you a responsible citizen. I am teaching responsibility to make you an enlightened being.

You are the source of everything, and you are responsible for everything. Whatever is happening you are responsible. Only when you understand you are responsible, the possibility for expansion starts. Feeling responsible is life. You not feeling responsible is death. When you don’t feel responsible you shrink in your life continuously. When you feel responsible for anything, your life in that zone expands. If you feel responsible for your family your relationship with your family expands. If you feel responsible for your company, the productivity of your company expands. If you feel responsible for your city, the life standard in your city increases, it expands. If you feel responsible for the world, the world becomes a better place. If you feel responsible for the universe you become enlightened.

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Responsibility Expands Your Possibilities

Every one of us is greedy for the powers leaders have, the powers higher souls have, but unfortunately no one wants to take the responsibility for it. I tell you, the world has abundant. Neither the wealth nor the extraordinary powers are restricted when you take responsibility. Powers, wealth, spiritual powers, all the auspicious things starts expressing through you intensely when you start becoming responsible. Responsibility expands your possibilities. Responding to the world from the best possibility is responsibility. Responding to you and the world from the best possibility is responsibility.

Extraordinary powers are not myth, mythological stories or just some blind faith. I have already done enough scientific researches to demonstrate the genuineness of the possibility of teleportation, telepathy and materialization. Look in, look into your life. When you start taking responsibility you can decide the way your heart beats, you can decide the way your lungs function. You can also decide the functioning of the non-mechanical parts of your body. Each one of us has mechanical parts of the brain and non-mechanical parts of the brain. Mechanical parts of the brain are responsible for the functions of your body like the functions of the heart, lungs, liver, kidney, intestine and the functioning of your nervous system – experiencing touch, taste and seeing. The non-mechanical parts of your brain are responsible for extraordinary powers like telepathy, teleportation and vaak siddhi. When you take responsibility for how you think, how you feel, instead of leaving the responsibility to the society, media and others, you can make the non-mechanical parts of your brain function. When you take responsibility for all the happenings inside you and outside you, a new energy, a new possibility opens up in you. The first step to realize the divine in you is to take the responsibility.

Responsibility gives birth to a Leadership Consciousness

Sometimes people sit in the throne or become a center of power without having the state of a leader. I have seen them dying in depression and suffering in suffocation due to the power. They never enjoy the power. Unless you achieve the state, status becomes a liability. Status binds you and brings suffering to you and others if you have not achieved the state. The state of responsibility, the state of a leader – leadership consciousness or ishvaratva – has to be achieved first.

Responsibility not only awakens leadership qualities in you, it 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 you may express leadership qualities, but when you take responsibility for everything happening in and around you, you express leadership consciousness.

When you do not carry the consciousness of leader, you are bound by the powers of the leader even if you get it, and you will bind the people who come under you accepting you as leader also. This is one of the biggest diseases India is suffering with. Many seats are occupied by the people who are not responsible enough for the seat they are occupying. From the individual houses to the seats of 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.

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Reacting and Responding

When you go on expanding, the commitments and responsibilities you hold in your being for yourself also expand and become great possibilities. You only have two ways of relating with the world. Either you react or respond. If you feel you are not responsible, you react. If you feel you are responsible you respond. When all your actions are responding – you are a karma yogi; no karma binds you, you are living in completion, expressing completion. When you feel you are not responsible, you react. Reacting puts you in bondage and keeps you in incompletion.

Only when you express all the possibilities out of liberation cognition, ‘jeevan mukta sambhavana’, you are living your life. Life is lived when ‘jeevan mukta sambhavana’ becomes your lifestyle. 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 on, received his blessings and guidance, they requested for his spiritual support. Leadership consciousness is an independent intelligence. It cannot be hidden from others. Once you have it, the whole world will know you have it. Simply the whole world listens to you. You do not need any power, political strength or infrastructure for the world to know you are a leader. Even if you walk in the street you will stand tall – as a man among men, and the world will respect you.

Only Evolution Can Change the World!

You need to know this one truth – constantly cognize you are responsible for everything including what you think as accidents. When you cognize, the way you perceive and experience the world becomes different. When you perceive the truth of the world in a different way, you can change the facts of the world; not before that. No revolution can change the world. Only evolution can change the world. When you evolve, if you just sit with responsibility under a forest banyan tree, a city will happen around you who want to learn that truth from you; nothing else is required.

It is very unfortunate that human beings are taught from the beginning to put responsibility on others. I just sat taking the responsibility for the Vedic tradition and making all these truths available to the world. Now I can see the power of my cognition. Hundreds of people are taking this responsibility on their shoulders. I give my clarion call to the youth of India. Oh youth of Bharat! We are all responsible for Bharat, for India. It is only by the spiritual strength we are going to rebuild the country. Only by building human beings we are going to build the nation. Wake up! Don’t waste your life just imagining an IT job and a wife, 2 kids and a small family. Don’t be in that unfortunate small cognition. Wake up! We are responsible for the whole world, for humanity. Take the responsibility for others irresponsibility. Take responsibility to teach responsibility to the world. Take responsibility to teach integrity and authenticity to the world.

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