A river needs two bunks to flow. The difference between flood and normal river is that water flow is regulated in a river. During floods, water has no direction. Similarly, the energy in our life needs some direction to flow. If you don't give direction, it is all confusion. 

Today, most people are confused because there is no direction in life. When you are happy, there is so much of life energy in you, but when this life energy doesn't know where to go, how to go, it gets stuck. When it stagnates, it rots. 

For life, energy to move in a direction, commitment is essential. Life runs with commitment. If you observe every small thing or big thing in life, they go with certain commitment. A student takes admission in a school or college with a commitment. 

Needless to say, a family runs on commitment - mother is committed to the child, child is committed to the parents, husband is committed to wife and wife is committed to husband. 

Greater the commitment you take, greater the energy/power you gain to fulfill that commitment. Greater the power commitment, easier things are. Smaller the commitment, suffocating it is for you. 

Smaller commitments suffocate you because you have more capacity, but you are stuck in a small hole. When you have ten things to do and if one thing goes wrong, you can keep doing the ten things, the thing that has gone wrong will set itself right. But if you have only one thing to do and that goes wrong, then are you are stuck with it. 

Usually we think we should have resource and then we will commit. Greater the commitment you take, greater the resources will come to you automatically. Whatever you are committed to brings you strength. 

If you are committed to your family then your family supports you, if you are committed to society, you enjoy the support of society. Commitment will always bring comfort in the long run. Make a commitment to make this world a better place to live.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

25 WAYS TO A BETTER LIFE