Day 36

It may begin as a small ripple but if you keep associating with it, it will become like an ocean. It will cloud your whole mind, your intellect. The same happens when some people irritate you. Observe that irritation. What happens? You get irritated, but somehow you manage to suppress. 

And the next time and the next time, the more you suppress your irritation, one day you just blow it all off. It all becomes so unbearable, it comes flooding out. Don't keep such a company. You know, you always keep the company of someone who is similar to you, or who you think is on your wave length, or equal to you. 

When someone is above you, you honour him, you respect him, idolize him. When someone is below you, then you don’t bother to take any notice of him, you brush him off. The company that you long for, or you want to keep, is that which is on par with you. And that is where all the anger and frustration start arising out of you. 

Either you become very small and keep everything above you or you become so big and see everything as insignificant, everything as that which doesn’t matter at all then you feel much more freedom. Who crosses this ocean of illusion, this ocean of unreality? 

You label yourself, “I am somebody, I am something, I am this, Iam that, I am like this. I am an angry person.” You have labelled yourself and you justify yourself being an angry person because you have labelled yourself, and you feel happy being angry all the time. You have to take off all of your labels. 

You know, you really do not know who you are. Sometimes if you enter into somebody's kitchen, the labels tell you something, but there is something else in the bottle. The container contains something else, the label says something else. And that is exactly what you are. 

You are labeling yourself as somebody, but inside you, you are something completely different. Take off your labels. Who serves the Enlightened, one who serves the wise, one who keeps wise company, becomes free from this feeling of “I want this, I want that, I, I, 1.” You exist as though you do not, you live as though you do not. 

Hollow and empty, you exist like a feather. You have no demands. You don’t demand that people need to recognise you. So what if everyone doesn't recognise you, or if everyone recognises you, so what? Let the whole world recognise you, so what? And if nobody recognises you, so what? 

There are flowers in the garden, there are flowers in the forest. Do they say, “Oh, nobody saw me, I have blossomed?” Does it matter to the rose whether someone looks at it or not? In fact, if people look at it, they may pluck it. It is better nobody sees them they are happy. This urge for recognition from somebody is what kills you. 

You do your job and that’s it. What has to come to you, will come to you. Why do we need to crave for other's recognition? That brings ego -“Me, me, me, I did it.” So many lives like this you have existed on this planet and they have all gone so many mosquitoes like you.