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If you dislike somebody, for sure youll exaggerate them in your mind. Exaggeration means youre unable to see things as they are. If youre unable to see things as they are, you can never handle life the way it should be. So liking and disliking exaggerates either in positive ways or in negative ways, but it exaggerates or it distorts life.
So what you like is not important. Have you made yourself in such a way, not just people, just everything likes you, every creature around you likes your presence, even the flowers, the plants and the trees like you? How can the plants and the trees like me? Theyre very sensitive to who you are. Theyre extremely sensitive to who you are. They respond accordingly.
If you make yourself in such a way that the very earth that you walk upon likes you, then you will see everything in your life will become a blessing. If everything around you dislikes you, you will see everything that could be a well-being could become a curse. Right now there is no curse sitting upon human life. It is things that people want, its things that people aspire for, things that they work for, strive to have in their life, which turn into curses in their life their work, their property, their relationships, their own body, their own mind which is the cancer of their life.
Misery is not raining. Never its raining misery. Its just that things that you like have become source of misery. If you strive to make yourself in such a way you cannot be helped nobody can help liking you, life will blossom better, everything will yield their best to you, not their worst.
But if you go by what you like, not always life will yield its best; you may have everything and still have nothing. So spiritual process is not about pursuing what you like, its about striving to make yourself in such a way even the birds like you, the squirrels like you its about making yourself in such a way that every atom in this Existence likes you, wants to yield to you. If Existence does not yield to you, you do what you want, nothing will work in real sense. You may do something, you may become something, you may earn a living, you may make a living, but nothing will happen.
You will just go through a cycle without nothing tremendous touching your life. For those of you whore living in the ashram, I want you to learn to stand, walk, sit, breathe, in such a way that even the stones around you like you. How do I know whether they like me or not? You will know for sure. If you are sensitive about being like that, you will also know you will also be sensitive enough to know that.
You If you are never sensitive about these aspects, you will not have the sensitivity to know, otherwise distinctly you will know. Do not become in such a way everything has to be shouted into your ears. You must become in such a way if you look at somebody before they speak, you know. For this, you need a certain sense of receptivity Receptivity will not happen to you if youre too full of yourself.
The less you are the more you receive, the more you are less you receive. If youre too full of yourself, nothing bigger than your nonsense will happen to you. If theres no such thing as myself, you simply sit here, the whole existence will dance within you, you will become an instrument of the Creator, otherwise you will be a bundle of thoughts, emotions, prejudices and rubbish. This is the choice every human being has either to exist here as a limb of the Creator, as a Ishanga were calling them these days (Laughs), or to exist here as a bundle of thoughts, emotions and nonsense that you have gathered.
This choice is available to us every moment of our life continuously choosing, continuously choosing to be like that. If this striving is there it will deliver you to a different place of gracefulness, where every stone, every pebble, every rock, every tree, every atom in the existence speaks to you in a language that you can know, otherwise you are alone in this vast existence feeling constantly insecure, unstable, psychologically challenged. This is the choice. It is not a gift, it is a choice.
One makes the right choice, right things will happen; one makes the wrong choice, wrong things will happen. Its a very fair and just existence, I want you to know. It doesnt spare anybody. It doesnt spare anybody.
Its not like a social structure that some people can get away with wrong things. In this existence it doesnt spare anybody. It doesnt matter who you are, if you jump off the roof, the earth will break your leg. Yes? Raja Ranka Fakir (Laughs) (Referring to Kabirs song, indicating all kinds of people) everybody nobody is spared.
It doesnt matter who you are, no exemptions, and nobody is barred. Anybody who is willing, for everybody the possibility is open. For everybody the stick is also there You make the right choices everything is open; make the wrong choices everything will knead you in a different way. So if pain comes, suffering comes, misery happens its not time to look around.
This is always the problem. If youre miserable, you think somebody else needs to be fixed. No, no, no, no. If youre miserable, this (Referring to oneself) needs to be fixed, not somebody else.
No Im miserable, fix the situation for me. No, no, no, if youre miserable, who should be fixed? If you are sick, who should be given the medicine? Shall we give it to somebody else when youre sick? If youre hungry, shall we give the food to somebody else? No, it only works if you give it to this (Referring to oneself), isnt it? If food is like that, medicine is like that, is that not true with every other aspect? That if youre miserable, something else or somebody else need not be fixed, only this one (Referring to oneself) needs to be fixed. Just to understand this simple fact, people take lifetimes. (Laughs) They think something else has to be fixed.
On a certain day, Shankaran Pillai went drinking with his friends. Yogis and drunkards both are timeless, you know. They dont know the passage of time. He went drinking.
He intended to go back home at 8o clock, but drink after drink and time he became unconscious of time. When he looked at the watch (Gestures) (Laughter), it was 02:30 AM. So he thought its really late, and he wants to get back home quickly so he took a short cut. And he was walking through his shortcut on his unsteady legs and he fell into a thorny bush.
The whole face was scratched up. So in this condition he went home and tried to find the keyhole. That took another half-an-hour. (Laughter) Opened, went inside, went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he was bleeding all over the face.
So he opened the medicine chest fixed himself whichever way he could and quietly crawled into the bed and slept. Morning 8o clock, his wife took a bucket of cold water and threw it in his face; he got up. Said, You idiot, once again drinking? He said, No honey, I havent touched a drop. Six months ago when I promised, since then I havent touched a drop.
She held him by the shirt, dragged him into the bathroom and showed him, the band-aid was all over the mirror. (Laughter/Applause) It doesnt work like that. Only somebody who is completely unconscious will do such things. If its hurting here youll fix it there (Gestures), because youre completely unconscious or inebriated.
So whenever youre miserable you want to fix that one and that one and that one; no, no, no; this one (Referring to oneself) needs to be fixed. If you put band-aid on the mirror it doesnt heal your wounds. You have to attend to the wound. And both your miseries and joys are caused from inside.
So it needs to be attended here, not somewhere else. The sooner you learn this, the more graceful and wonderful your life will become..
