Smile and be innocent
Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine
Day 33
Smile and be innocent. Smile from the core of your heart, then you will see all the negativity will fly off, like when the sun shines, the dewdrops vanish, the darkness vanishes. Your smile is the light in your life. Stop fueling negativity, stop feeling obligedthen you are good company.
Not only that, then you will be a good company to anybody. It needs skill to shun someone. When someone is so negative, if you just shun them, and say, “This is not right, what you are saying is hopeless,” they will just shut up and they won't really feel lighter.
You need skill to deal with someone's negativity. Are you getting what I'm saying? They will just stop communicating with you because they are so convinced about their negativity. Unless you say yes to them, they don’t feel sympathetic. So you need skill to put down their negativity. That is satsang.
And when you come from this position you will see that whatever complaints they have, as soon as they are aware of that feeling, they start dissolving, they start feeling lighter. It is the company which will pull you forward in life. Everyone needs good company to progress, isn't it so?
The husband gets into a bad company or the wife gets into bad company the seeds will rip the family. Of course, when people are living together four, five, six, seven years, some misunderstandings creep up in any relationship, somebody says something and there will be an argument.
Skill is needed to acknowledge the negativity, yet not agree with it. Acknowledge it, not agree with it, and then break it-like with a knife, remove it. And move on, feeling lighter.
Your life on this planet is meant to bring peace and lightness to everyone's life, not to create more complications. What do you say? So, when you feel one with everybody, when you have that love for everyone, then you don't feel obliged. But you have to do it with skill.
Question - What is someone's complaints are legitimate?
Gurudev Sri Sri - That is how everyone feels. When they complain, they feel their complaints are completely legitimate. Wake up and see. If you see through knowledge, you always get what you deserve. Nature has that principle, that truth.