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Wealth
created and maintained out of insecurity brings more and more
bondage and fear. Wealth created out of overflowing energy,
intelligence, clarity and freedom brings more and more freedom.
So the basic attitude with which you create wealth is going
to decide whether you are going to be a Kubera or a Lakshmi!
Understand, the cosmos runs based on its own dharma (code of
righteousness) and that is: Whatever you carry - intelligence,
energy, relationships, love, wealth, awareness — everything
stays with you even if you die. When you die, you are like
a bubble that disappears here and reappears somewhere else,
that's all. If you are able to internalize this one truth,
you will be liberated from the fear of death right now.
You will be completely liberated from all the insecurities
and fears you constantly carry. Now you are carrying your own hell. The constant
fear and insecurity you carry with you can be
healed this minute, with this understanding.
Be very clear, the cosmos is not an accident, it
is an order; it is pure auspiciousness. If you believe that the whole thing is
chaos, then depression is inevitable. Because at every step, there is fear because
there is no order. You don't know what can happen next moment. If you think you
are here to be punished, you are in hell. But if you think you are here to be
fulfilled, you are in heaven. Hell and heaven are not geographical, they are
psychological. A small story:
A man was driving his car on the highway when he
heard an announcement on the local radio station,
'There is a car driving at 180 mph on Highway 205.
Please drive carefully while the traffic police are at work
to catch the culprit.'
The man exclaimed to himself, 'One car? God, there are
hundreds!'
The man was himself driving on the wrong lane but
was blaming others for driving on the wrong lane! Understand, if you feel life
is a chaos, you are driving on the wrong lane!
Understanding the purpose of the cosmos, the purpose
of your existence and the connection between the two is what I call awakening
to the truth, awakening to the enlightenment. Then the cosmos will simply live
through you.
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Essence
of Kalpataru - Living Enlightenment
Kalpataru
means the energy which makes you live enlightenment, which
makes you live as jeevan muktas, living enlightened beings.
Please understand, let me describe the word 'living
enlightenment'. Living enlightenment does not mean becoming something. It is
not a lifestyle change. If I have to describe the idea of jeevan mukti in one
word, it is living a 'conflict-free life' - life without any inner or outer conflicts,
living completely at ease with the whole truth, living in tune with the whole
truth. Living enlightenment means living a conflict-free life. Whatever you may
be doing, wherever you may be living, living a conflict-free life - is living
enlightenment. There are two ways to enjoy life: either raise your energy to
fulfill all your desires, to change whatever needs to be changed, or raise your
intelligence to accept whatever need not be changed.
If I have to put the whole truth of living enlightenment
in a few words, it is having the:
Shakti: energy to change whatever
needs to be changed. In life we can change so many things.
But we don't them change because we have neither the awareness
nor the energy or even the will to change them. For example,
we can change our emotional response to so many things happening
around us, we can change our smoking habit, but we don't make
that effort. So awakening the energy to change the things which
you can change in your life is shakti, energy.
Buddhi: intelligence to accept whatever
need not be changed. There are so many things in your life
which need not change: like making people listen to you, wanting
to fly instead of walk, all these need not change.
Yukti: clarity to understand however
much you change, whatever you may do, the whole of Existence
is a continuously changing dream!
Bhakti: devotion or a strong feeling of connection with
that unchanging eternal Truth that is running the whole show. You may call
that as guru or God, or whatever name you choose. The strong feeling of connection
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