If you want to stretch a little bit beyond the comfort zone, do that also. If you are youthful, more energetic and want to take some challenges. Do it. While doing all this, relax into your Being, knowing.
DAY10
🌹 Ishavasya Upanishad 🙏🏻
The Password to Divinity.
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Just observe and reflect on the small incidents in your life. All this knowledge is not intellectual gymnastics. It is for you to look inwards and ponder on your own life. "Am I absorbing this? What is the cause of my depression, my anxiety? First of all, I don't believe there is a Power all around me! And then that it is mine and It is protecting me!"
This faith is missing. Secondly, there is a tendency to grab more. What more do you want to grab?
Knowledge?
"If there is nothing material, then I want grab more knowledge more spirituality. "
Come on. Relax. Once you are on the path, once you are sitting in Upanishad with the Master, relax. Still if you keep running , it is like running inside a train. If you keep running inside a train,it is not that you will reach faster. If you get up and walk in the plane because you are in a hurry, the plane is not going to land any faster.
Determination to live for 100 years and being useful doing work, which does not benefit you,it's the secret. There is no other way. Take a few minutes and contemplate on this. Contemplate on all other actions to which we get attached. At some point, we feel like running away from it because our nature is to be free. Which is the action that sets you free. It is the action in which you are not trying to something but the action in which you relax. A flower is there but it's not trying to bring fragrance to your nose. It is just there and it brings the fragrance to you. It is good enough.
In the same way, your being centered is good enough. Now, when I say action, immediately you start thinking "See that person is able to do more sea. This person is able to do more Seva. I can't, I am old and I am not capable. "
Don't get into this trip.
Seva is that Nishkam karma, desireless action, that action which is within your capacity. If you are not a doctor, nobody expects you to treat them. But if you are a doctor and you are not treating your patients , then people ask for it. Do that action which is in your capacity.
Suppose you are 85 years old ad you cannot do anything, never mind. Just sit and bless people. Stop complaining ad start smiling. Elderly people sitting at home giving confidence, assurance to people is a big Seva by itself. You are not expected to do what you cannot do. But what you can do, not doing it is PRAGYA APRADHA.
What we can do comfortably, what we can do with a little stretch is good enough. This action is not a burden on us. Again, we must keep in mind. Sometimes in the name of Seva we take too much burden on our mind. We feel guilty for not doing it. We should be done with, with this sort of mindset. You do what is comfortable and take such commitments or if you want to stretch a little bit beyond the comfort zone, do that also. If you are youthful, more energetic and want to take some challenges. Do it. While doing all this, relax into your Being, knowing.