Identify Your Limitations

*17. Identify Your Limitations*

Every time you are unhappy or miserable, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. And what can you do? You can just feel thankful : "Oh, I came in touch with my boundary, my limitation. This was my limitation." 

You just turn the whole situation into prayer : "Let there be peace, not just in me but in everybody." Prayer is that moment when you come in touch with your limitations, your boundaries. 

You are peaceful, you are joyful, you are happy as long as you have not come in contact with your boundaries. At that moment what can you do? 

You can just say, "My Lord, My God, You have made me become aware of my boundaries. You bring peace. I am giving it all to You." That very moment you will start smiling. However hopeless the situation is, you will walk through it, sing through it, dance through it. This is love. 

In Hindi, love is written with two-and-a-half letters. They say, "Who is a master, who is a pundit, who is a wise person? Not one who has studied a lot of scriptures, but one who has studied the two-and-a-half-letters." 

It is a test of the moment, when you come in touch with your limitations, your boundaries. You are happy, peaceful. Are you in the boundaries? Or are you maintaining your boundless and the innocent love in the heart? Is it remaining? If it is, then nothing can rob you of peace.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

25 WAYS TO A BETTER LIFE