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Love, Kindness, Positivity, Vegetarianism
*Learn the knack of relaxing- Osho*
When you start relaxing, start from the circumference -- that is where we are. We can start only from where we are. Relax the circumference of your being -- relax your body, relax your behavior, relax your acts. Walk in a relaxed way, eat in a relaxed way, talk, listen in a relaxed way. Slow down every process.
Don't be in a hurry and don't be in haste. Move as if all eternity is available to you -- in fact, it is available to you. We have always been here and we will be here always. Forms go on changing, but not the substance. Garments go on changing, but not the soul.
The first step in relaxing is relaxing the body. And you will be surprised that if you approach any part of your body, it listens, it follows you -- it is your body!
With closed eyes, go inside the body from the toe to the head searching for any place where there is a tension. And then talk to that part as you talk to a friend. Let there be a dialogue between you and your body.
Tell it to relax, and tell it, "There is nothing to fear. Don't be afraid. I am here to take care -- you can relax." Slowly slowly, you will learn the knack of it.
—0sho—
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha
Vol 1, Ch #8: The beginning of a new phase
am in Buddha Hall.
I’d like to hire Dylan Dog to help me find the answer to the mystery of life
By Alessandro Carosi
Dylan Dog was my first comic, and I became so passionate about it that I started collecting it until I left for Australia; I ended up with over 200 issues.
From there, my passion branched out to include American Marvel superheroes and Japanese manga, but Dylan Dog remained my favourite. One of the reasons was that it tackled a subject which, at the time – and now more than ever – was close to my heart: I’d started asking myself questions about life, about why we exist, and whether there’s more to life than meets the eye. When I came across Dylan Dog, it was precisely during this period of questioning, and Dylan Dog dealt with the supernatural in a rather unusual way.
Dylan Dog was a private investigator specialising in nightmares, and his cases all centred on the supernatural; his clients sought his services to deal with these issues. Back then, I used to wonder if there was something more.
Now I know that nothing happens by chance. .. https://anextraordinaryandordinarylifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/id-like-to-hire-dylan-dog-to-help-me-find-the-answer-to-the-mystery-of-life/
📰 Opinion and News: Are We Solving Problems or Feeding Them?
Every day, people consume stories through news, social media, and the opinions of others. Most of the time, they are hearing events through a third party rather than from those directly involved.
As information passes from one person to another, the mind starts filling in the missing pieces. Assumptions become narratives, narratives become conclusions, and conclusions become opinions.
Before long, people find themselves emotionally attached to situations they have never experienced firsthand.
The mind carries the anger, frustration, disappointment, and fear of stories that belong to someone else.
Yet few stop to ask:
Is this information complete?
Is my reaction helping anyone?
What part of this story is fact and what part is assumption?
What action am I willing to take to improve the situation?
News also plays a role in shaping attention.
When people are repeatedly invited to focus on problems without being invited to discuss solutions, the conversation can become trapped in a cycle of outrage and judgment. The problem grows in people's minds while the search for solutions becomes an afterthought.
A problem-focused conversation asks:
"Who is wrong?"
A solution-focused conversation asks:
"What can be learned?"
"What can be improved?"
"What action can be taken?"
"How can we contribute to positive change?"
Neither news nor opinions are the enemy.
The danger arises when information stimulates emotional reactions but never inspires thoughtful action.
A society can become skilled at discussing what is broken while forgetting how to repair it.
🌱 Wisdom begins when we move beyond reacting to problems and start participating in solutions.
🤔 Self-Reflection
Do I spend more time discussing problems or seeking solutions?
Am I forming opinions from facts or from assumptions?
When I hear disturbing news, do I leave with greater understanding or greater agitation?
Am I contributing to change, or merely contributing to the noise?
✨ An opinion may satisfy the mind for a moment, but a solution has the power to change reality.
Try to resist it. Part of developing spirituality means reducing the need to sleep so you can stay alert in the spiritual states of meditation. I find sitting straight helps and if that doesn't work you can stand up and if that doesn't work you can start walking around. (Most meditations are possible to do while walking). If you start yawning a lot as you do that it's a good sign. Get used to resisting sleep as a regular practice unless you see health problems because of it.
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I would try praying to God and the angels to disconnect any connection or contract that is there between you two. They might do it. If they don't then it'll be because there's some kind of lesson or growth in the experience for you that is supposed to happen. Definitely worth a shot though
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i get irregistible urge to sleep after meditation and also is their any yogic practice which make me feel energetic all day ?
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Pranahuti, also known as Yogic Transmission, is a spiritual practice involving the transmission of life-force energy (Prana) from a qualified master to a seeker to accelerate spiritual growth and consciousness transformation. Derived from Sanskrit, Prana means "life force" and Ahuti means "offering," signifying the offering of life force to the soul for divine uplift.
This technique is central to the Sahaj Marg (Natural Path) system of Rajayoga, rediscovered by Sri Ramchandraji of Fatehgarh (Lalaji Maharaj) and perfected by his disciple Babuji Maharaj. It operates through the power of will and pure thought, allowing an adept to infuse Divine Grace into the heart of the aspirant, thereby removing mental complexities, obstructions, and negative tendencies that hinder independent meditation.
Key aspects of Pranahuti include:
Mechanism: The energy flows heart-to-heart from a competent trainer who is established in the Infinite Source, ensuring constant rejuvenation without depletion of the transmitter.
Effects: It refines the subtle bodies (intellect, ego, mind), expands consciousness, and provides a sense of inner peace and freshness, often described as "food for the soul."
Accessibility: The practice is offered free of charge as a service to humanity, with trainers authorized under the guidance of the current spiritual guide, Daaji (Kamlesh D. Patel), in Heartfulness centers worldwide.
Outcome: It aims to help the seeker realize their highest potential and evolve toward cosmic consciousness by integrating spiritual and material aspects of life harmoniously.
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The moment you can say to existence, “I am perfect as I am, I am happy as I am, “this is what in the East we call shraddha – trust; then you have accepted yourself and in accepting yourself you have accepted your creator. Denying yourself you deny your creator.
If you go and see a painting of Picasso’s and you say, “This is wrong and that is wrong, and this color should have been this way,” you are denying Picasso. The moment you say, “I should be like this,” you are trying to improve upon existence. You are saying, “You committed blunders; I should have been like this, and you have made me like this?” You are trying to improve upon existence. It is not possible. Your struggle is in vain; you are doomed to failure.
And the more you fail, the more you hate. The more you fail, the more you feel condemned. The more you fail, the more you feel yourself impotent. And out of this hatred, impotency, how can compassion arise? Compassion arises when you are perfectly grounded in your being. You say, “Yes, this is the way I am.” You have no ideals to fulfill. And immediately fulfillment starts happening!
The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. And the lotuses bloom so beautifully because they have not heard the legends about other flowers. Everything in nature goes so beautifully in accord, because nobody is trying to compete with anybody, nobody is trying to become anybody else. Everything is the way it is.
Just see the point! Just be yourself and remember you cannot be anything else, whatsoever you do. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself.
There are only two ways. One is: rejecting, you can remain the same; condemning. you can remain the same; or: accepting, surrendering, enjoying, delighting, you can be the same. Your attitude can be different, but you are going to remain the way you are, the person you are. Once you accept, compassion arises. And then you start accepting others!
Have you observered: it is very difficult to live with a saint, very difficult. You can live with a sinner; you cannot live with a saint because a saint will be condemning you continuously: by his gesture, by his eyes, the way he will look at you, the way he will talk at you. A saint never talks with you; he talks at you. He never just looks at you; he has always some ideals in his eyes, clouding. He never sees you. He has something far away and he goes on comparing you with it...and, of course, you always fall short. His very look makes you a sinner. It is very difficult to live with a saint...because he does not accept himself, how can he accept you? He has many things in him. jarring notes he feels. he has to go beyond. Of course, he sees the same things in you in a magnified way.
But to me only that person is a saint who has accepted himself, and in his acceptance has accepted the whole world. To me, that state of mind is what sainthood is: the state of total acceptance. And that is healing, therapeutic. Just being with somebody who accepts you totally is therapeutic. You will be healed.
Osho, A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Talk #8
Can anyone here guide me on crystals? I don't get how they work or what you are supposed to do with them. I'm interested in people's personal experiences with them
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🙏 *ॐ शांति* 🙏
जिस प्रकार हम अपने *घर* को साफ करते हैं, उसी प्रकार *मन* की सफाई करना भी आवश्यक है। मन में बीते हुए अनुभवों का दुख, भविष्य की चिंता, किसी से मिली ठेस, अपेक्षाएँ, शिकायतें और अनावश्यक विचार जमा होते रहते हैं। जब मन इन सबका *बोझ* उठाता रहता है, तो उसमें शांति और खुशी के लिए जगह कम होती जाती है। इसलिए सबसे पहले हमें यह समझना चाहिए कि हर परिस्थिति हमारे *नियंत्रण* में नहीं होती। जो हमारे हाथ में नहीं है, उसके बारे में बार-बार सोचकर अपनी मानसिक शक्ति को *व्यर्थ* करने के बजाय उसे *छोड़ना* सीखना चाहिए।
🌸 सुप्रभात...
💐💐 आपका दिन शुभ हो... 💐💐
*Just be yourself- Osho*
NEVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY. All these wise guys who go on ADVISING everybody to do this, do that. These are very DANGEROUS people. Their whole effort is TO IMPOSE THEIR IDEAS ON OTHERS.
I am NOT at all in favor of interfering in anybody's private affairs.... YOU STICK TO YOUR OWN INDIVIDUALITY.
Yes, if inner changes need outer changes, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICE. Always go according to it; that is your guide, AND NOBODY ELSE HAS THE RIGHT TO INTERFERE in your life.
THE POPE is working on a crossword puzzle on Sunday afternoon. He stops for a moment, scratches his head, then asks the cardinal, "Can you think of a four-letter word, meaning woman, that ends in u-n-t?"
"Aunt," replies the cardinal.
"That's it!" says the pope, blushing. "Have you got an eraser?"
THESE ARE THE WISE GUYS, WHO ARE ADVISING EVERYBODY. They are the representatives of God. Particularly the pope is infallible -- and still he needs an eraser!
DON'T BE BOTHERED BY ANYBODY. SIMPLY BE AUTHENTIC AND TRUE TO YOURSELF. It will be something grand to see a mafia guy becoming a Gautam Buddha, with his sunglasses over his eyes, with his toothpicks, looking like a gangster. The world needs... Just one variety of Gautam Buddha, one size, one shape is boring.
I AM IN SUPPORT OF EVERY KIND OF PERSON -- OF ALL SIZES AND ALL SHAPES, of unique personalities, of individualities which have no parallel anywhere -- becoming enlightened. But this is possible only if you don't become a follower, if you don't become a believer, if you don't imitate; IF YOU SIMPLY LISTEN TO YOUR OWN STILL, SMALL VOICE, AND WITHOUT ANY FEAR, TRUSTING IT COURAGEOUSLY, GO ON MOVING WHEREVER IT LEADS. Only then we will have in the world different flowerings, with different fragrances, and a world immensely rich.
THE CROWD HATES UNIQUENESS; it likes similarity. It wants you all to be the same. It does not want you to stand alone, separate, a sunlit peak. The crowd hates individuals -- I LOVE INDIVIDUALS. And the mind of the crowd has been the most destructive mind. My suggestion to my people is, NEVER BE INFLUENCED BY THE CROWD. Try to remain aloof, try to remain yourself. Only then there is a possibility that someday your night will come to an end and a new dawn, a new beginning, a new birth, a new ecstasy, a new dance, a new song will overwhelm you.
That new dawn is very close, you just have to remember to be yourself, authentically, sincerely. Up to now mankind has lived as a crowd. From now onwards, if mankind wants to live at all it has to live as individuals, not as crowds.
—0sho—
The New Dawn
Ch #33: The new dawn is very close
pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium.
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*दाजी* – ‘ *व्रज सेवा के* माध्यम से *भगवान श्रीकृष्ण का सम्मान*
( *मथुरा, 13 जून 2026, प्रातःकाल* )
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“आप सभी को मेरा प्रणाम।
भगवान की कृपा से *श्री रामचंद्र मिशन* को *मथुरा* , *व्रज* और *गोवर्धन* जैसे इन पवित्र स्थलों में कार्य करने का अवसर प्राप्त हुआ है।
जिस *ट्रस्ट* की हम स्थापना करने जा रहे हैं, उसका नाम ‘ *ब्रज*वैभव* *अभियान* ’ होगा। इस ट्रस्ट के माध्यम से सेवा करने वाले सभी लोग स्वयंसेवक होंगे और उनके लिए एक विशेष वेशभूषा निर्धारित होगी। उनके बैज पर ‘ *ब्रज रज सेवा* ’ लिखा होगा।
‘ *रज* का अर्थ है इस भूमि की धूल। हम ब्रज की इस पवित्र मिट्टी की सेवा कर रहे हैं; हम उस धूल की सेवा कर रहे हैं। हम अपने कार्य की शुरुआत पूरे क्षेत्र की सफाई से करेंगे। जैसा कि हमने कल देखा, हमारे बच्चे सड़कों की सफाई कर रहे थे। उन्हें देखकर पड़ोसी भी आगे आए और सफाई में शामिल हो गए। उन्होंने सोचा, ‘यदि बच्चे सफाई कर रहे हैं, तो हमें भी सफाई करनी चाहिए।’
इस प्रकार स्वच्छता का भाव फैलता जाएगा। मेरा विश्वास है कि धीरे-धीरे लोगों में जागरूकता उत्पन्न होगी और वे अपने सामने उपस्थित संभावनाओं को पहचानने लगेंगे।
यह केवल शुरुआत है। जिस प्रकार गंगोत्री में गंगा कुछ बूंदों के जल से प्रारंभ होती है, उसी प्रकार श्री रामचंद्र मिशन भी केवल तीन सदस्यों से शुरू हुआ था। आज इसके लाखों सदस्य हैं। इसी प्रकार यहाँ आरंभ किया जा रहा यह ‘ *ब्रज वैभव अभियान* ’ भी निरंतर विकसित होगा।
जब हम प्राचीन काल की कथाएँ सुनते हैं, भारत के पूर्व *वैभव* का वर्णन सुनते हैं, तो मन में दुःख होता है। हम सोचते हैं, ‘क्या हुआ? हम कहाँ चूक गए? हम कहाँ सुधार कर सकते हैं?’ वह सुधार हमें स्वयं से आरंभ करना होगा।
हमें देश का एक *अच्छा* *नागरिक* बनना है। उससे भी बढ़कर, हमें भगवान का भक्त बनना है। *जो व्यक्ति अपनी जिम्मेदारियों और कर्तव्यों का पालन करता है, वही धर्म का अनुसरण कर रहा* है। इसलिए कहा गया है—
*‘धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः* ’ — जो धर्म की रक्षा करता है, धर्म उसकी रक्षा करता है।
अतः हमें कार्य की जिम्मेदारी स्वयं उठानी चाहिए, परंतु कोमल और विनम्र भाव से। हमें हर बात के लिए सरकार, समाज अथवा स्वयं भगवान से अपेक्षा नहीं करनी चाहिए।
सहयोग मिलता रहेगा। बिना माँगे भी भगवान व्यवस्था करेंगे। सरकार सहायता करे या न करे, यह उनका निर्णय है; किंतु हम अपना कार्य करते रहेंगे। और हमारे साथ तो पहले से ही भगवान श्रीकृष्ण का आशीर्वाद है।
अब हमें दृढ़ संकल्प के साथ इस कार्य को आगे बढ़ाना है। जब आप अपने परिचित लोगों से मिलें, तो यदि वे ध्यान नहीं भी करते हों, तब भी कोई बात नहीं। उन्हें सेवा के लिए आने को कहिए। बहुत से लोग तैयार हो जाएंगे, क्योंकि ऐसे अनेक लोग हैं जो ध्यान नहीं कर पाते, पर सेवा करने के लिए तत्पर रहते हैं। कुछ लोग आर्थिक सहयोग देने के लिए भी तैयार रहते हैं।
*कुछ लोग कहते* हैं, ‘मैं ध्यान नहीं करूँगा।’ क्यों? क्योंकि जब वे ध्यान के लिए बैठते हैं, तो उन्हें अपना ही चेहरा दिखाई देता है। वे सोचते हैं कि जीवन में की गई अपनी गलतियों के बाद वे स्वयं का सामना कैसे करें।
लेकिन जो हो गया, सो हो गया। अब एक नया अध्याय प्रारंभ होता है। उन गलतियों को भूल जाइए। भगवान से कहिए, ‘आज से मैं उन गलतियों को दोबारा नहीं दोहराऊँगा।’ बस, इतना ही पर्याप्त है।
मथुरा में अब तक की हमारी यात्रा यही रही ।है।
अब हम सहर जाएंगे। उसके बाद इगलास, अलीपुर, गाज़ियाबाद और फिर अपने घर लौटेंगे।
धन्यवाद।”
may try Heartfulness methods for few weeks, it will work to clarify many points
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SHUBH DIVINE DAY🌞
WELCOME NOVEMBER📿
There are some people
who put U down in Life,
Mock ur Dreams,
& Challenge ur Personality;
they look Like Winners.
But in Actual Fact,
they are only Voicing out their Insecurities & Jealousy.
Do not let them pull u Down.
Believe & accept yourself &
Hold onto what u Believe in.
GOD surely Listens,
understands & knows the Hopes & Fears U keep in your Heart. For when U Trust in HIS Love, Miracles Happen..........!
Be BOLD & FEARLESS
on this GLORIOUS RAVIVAAR😎
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🐚CHANT GAYATHRI 🐚
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Meditation for Day One
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From: “The Book of Secrets” by Osho.
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The following is adapted from The Book of Secrets by Osho. It is a simple technique to give you a taste and experience of bringing awareness to activities you do every day. As you experiment with this technique, you can start to reclaim your natural meditative state from all the noise and traffic of the mind.
Osho says:
When I say that awareness cannot be attained by mind, I mean that you cannot attain it by thinking about it. It can be attained only by doing, not by thinking.
So don’t go on thinking about what awareness is, how to achieve it or what will be the result. Don’t go on thinking – start doing it. When walking on the street, walk with awareness. It is difficult, and you will go on forgetting, but don’t be discouraged. Whenever you remember again, be alert.
Take every step with full alertness, knowingly.
Remaining with the step, not allowing the mind to move somewhere else.
While eating, eat. Chew your food with awareness.
Whatever you are doing, don’t do it mechanically. For example, I can move my hand mechanically. But then I can also move my hand with full alertness. My mind is conscious that my hand is being moved.
The Method
Do it, try it – right now. Reach for something nearby, pick it up. Do it once mechanically, as you would normally do. Now put it back again.
And now... become aware of your hand, feel it from the inside out. If there is any tension in the hand, in the fingers, let the tension go.
Now, remaining with the awareness of your hand, with your full attention on your hand, reach for the object again. Pick it up. Feel the texture of it, the weight of it. How it feels in your hand. See how your hand wants to respond to this object… to turn it over, to weigh it, to play with it… or simply to hold it still. With alertness, aware of each movement.
Now put it down, staying alert and aware of the movement of your hand.
You will feel the change. The quality changes immediately.
Walk with alertness, and you walk differently; a different grace comes to your walking. Do whatsoever you are doing with alertness, and feel the difference.
And when I say, “feel,” I mean observe. First do it mechanically, and then with awareness, and feel the difference. And you will be able to feel the difference.
For example, if you eat with awareness, then you cannot eat more than is needed by the body.
“When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'”
~ Harold Kushner
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Hello everybody, i spoke to someone to be my spiritual coach. i didnt know her that much she just gave good advice. I feel like my name or photo is in a alter now and im losing control and hearing her and seeing her face in my mind now and want information about me.
Someone help please
Sounds interesting but the thing about that is that this idea that you need someone else to do it for you is probably out-of-date (no longer true). I think you can just infuse divine light or prana into yourself from God/Source as long as you are ready for it. Just give it a try. I would try to do it for 20 minutes minimum though, because if you do less than that you might not notice too much change. If you are happy with the change you can always do more later.
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Do anyone know what is Yogic Pranahuti?
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very beautiful message on the topic FEAR, just read and draw conclusions..
then you may act on that conclusions…
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(उपरोक्त अंग्रेजी के संदेश का हिंदी रूपांतरण)
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मेरे प्यारे बेटे, एक और पड़ाव पार हो गया! तुम्हारा हर कदम, तुम्हारा हर काम, तुम्हें हमारे और करीब लाता है। तुम फ़र्ज़ की भावना से आगे बढ़ते हो। तुम हमारे लिए प्यार से काम करते हो, और हर बार थोड़ा और ऊपर उठते हो। इस धरती पर तुम्हारा मिशन बहुत हद तक पूरा हो गया है। तुम्हारे कामों की रेंज हैरान करने वाली है।
धरती बीमार है, यह दुख झेल रही है, और इंसान ही इसकी वजह हैं। वे शिकारी बनना कब बंद करेंगे? इस मामले में कड़े कदम उठाने होंगे।
लोगों के कामों के नतीजे बहुत बड़े होंगे, और जब यह तूफ़ान अपना कहर बरसाएगा तो उसे कोई नहीं रोक पाएगा। यह सभ्यता बहुत खतरनाक है, और यह अपने आप नहीं रुकेगी; सिर्फ़ तत्व ही, अपनी बिजली जैसी प्रतिक्रिया से, इंसानों को उनके पागलपन में रोक पाएंगे।
धरती पर बहुत ज़्यादा आबादी है, और कुछ शैतानी तत्व ऐसा खेल खेल रहे हैं जिसका विरोध करना मुश्किल है।
चलो अपना काम करते हैं, मेरे बेटे। हमारी मिलकर की गई कोशिशें एक अहम संतुलन बनाती हैं। आइए, दुनिया को रोशन करते रहें, भले ही चारों ओर धुंध छाई हुई हो। हमारे काम एक तरह का संतुलन बनाए रखने में मदद करते हैं जो इस मामले में मुश्किल है लेकिन भविष्य के लिए मज़बूत नींव तैयार करता है।
इस हैरान इंसानियत के लिए काम करते रहो; तुम्हारा काम उन ज़रूरी ताकतों के केंद्र में जुड़ जाएगा जो कल की दुनिया में हावी होंगी।
मेरे प्यारे बेटे, तुम्हारे पास हमारा पूरा सपोर्ट और प्यार तुम्हारे कवच के तौर पर है।
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OSHO Times The Other:
Self-Compassion
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If you don’t love yourself you will never be able to love anybody else. If you are not kind to yourself you cannot be kind to anybody else. Your so-called saints who are so very hard on themselves are just pretending that they are kind to others. It is not possible. Psychologically it is impossible. If you cannot be kind to yourself, how can you be kind to others?
Whatsoever you are with yourself you are with others. Let that be a basic dictum. If you hate yourself you will hate others – and you have been taught to hate yourself. Nobody has ever said to you, “Love yourself!” The very idea seems absurd: loving oneself? The very idea makes no sense – loving oneself? We always think that to love one needs somebody else. But if you don’t learn it with yourself you will not be able to practise it with others.
You have been told, constantly conditioned, that you are not of any worth. From every direction you have been shown, you have been told, that you are unworthy, that you are not what you should be, that you are not accepted as you are. There are many shoulds hanging over your head, and those shoulds are almost impossible to fulfill. And when you cannot fulfill them, when you fall short, you feel condemned. A deep hatred arises in you about yourself.
How can you love others? So full of hatred, where are you going to find love? So you only pretend, you only show that you are in love. Deep down you are not in love with anybody; you cannot be. Those pretensions are good for a few days, then the color disappears, then reality asserts itself.
Every love-affair is on the rocks. Sooner or later, every love-affair becomes very poisoned. And how does it become so poisoned? Both pretend that they are loving, both go on saying that they love. The father says he loves the child; the child says he loves the father. The mother says she loves her daughter, and the daughter goes on saying the same thing. Brothers say they love each other. The whole world talks about love, sings about love...and can you find any other place so loveless? Not an iota of love exists – and there are mountains of talk, Himalayas of poetry about love.
It seems all these poetries are just compensations. Because we cannot love, we have somehow to believe through poetry, singing, that we love. What we miss in life we put in poetry. What we go on missing in life, we put in the film, in the novel. Love is absolutely absent, because the first step has not been taken yet.
The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don’t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn’t belong to you. You are just to be yourself. Relax and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don’t go on copying others signatures.
You are not expected to become a Jesus or a Buddha or a Ramakrishna; you are simply expected to become yourself. It was good that Ramakrishna never tried to become somebody else, so he became Ramakrishna. It was good that Jesus never tried to become like Abraham or Moses, so he became Jesus. It is good that Buddha never tried to become a Patanjali or Krishna; that’s why he became a Buddha.
When you are not trying to become anybody else, then you simply relax; then a grace arises. Then you are full of grandeur, splendor, harmony...because then there is no conflict! nowhere to go, nothing to fight for; nothing to force, enforce upon yourself violently. You become innocent.
In that innocence you will feel compassion and love for yourself. You will feel so happy with yourself that even if the divine comes and knocks at your door and says, “Would you like to become somebody else?” you will say, “Have you gone mad?! I am perfect! Thank you, but never try anything like that – I am perfect as I am.”
🌱 Entitlement: From Demanding Others to Respecting Yourself
Many people think entitlement means having the right to get what they want from others. They expect special treatment, respect, attention, or service simply because they believe they deserve it.
But true entitlement was never meant to control others.
As children, we are often raised with a sense of entitlement. Our parents care for us, protect us, meet our needs, and sometimes place our well-being above their own. This is natural for a child.
However, there comes a point when that chapter ends.
Growing up means learning that the world is not obligated to treat us the way our parents once did. Not everyone will prioritize us, agree with us, respect us, or serve our preferences. The sooner we accept this truth, the sooner we gain freedom from disappointment.
What many people call entitlement is often an expectation that others should behave according to their wishes. They may demand respect, argue for special treatment, or attempt to control how others respond to them.
Yet entitlement does not give us authority over other people.
True entitlement begins with the self.
You are entitled to care for yourself. You are entitled to protect your peace. You are entitled to uphold your values. You are entitled to treat yourself with dignity and respect.
The mistake happens when we try to extend that entitlement beyond ourselves and expect others to satisfy it for us.
Entitlement combined with ignorance leads to self-destruction because reality will continually challenge our expectations.
Entitlement grounded in truth becomes self-respect because it teaches us to take responsibility for our own well-being rather than placing that responsibility on others.
The moment entitlement stops being a demand placed on others and becomes a standard you uphold for yourself, it transforms from arrogance into self-respect.
✨ Reflection:
Are you using entitlement to demand something from others, or are you using it to give yourself the respect, care, and responsibility that only you can provide?
🌿 Sometimes the greatest sign of maturity is realizing that what we once expected from others is now ours to cultivate within ourselves.
🙏 *ॐ शांति* 🙏
हमारे शब्दों में बहुत *शक्ति* होती है। वही शब्द किसी के मन को प्रसन्न कर सकते हैं, उसे हिम्मत दे सकते हैं और उसके भीतर आशा जगा सकते हैं; वहीं कठोर और *असंवेदनशील* शब्द किसी के मन को गहरी चोट भी पहुँचा सकते हैं। इसलिए भाषा का वास्तविक सौंदर्य केवल अच्छे शब्दों में नहीं, बल्कि उनके पीछे छिपी *भावना* और संवेदना में होता है।
🌸 सुप्रभात...
💐💐 आपका दिन शुभ हो... 💐💐
🌱 THE HIDDEN COST OF CONSTANT COMPLAINING
Recently, I asked someone a simple question:
⏳ "How long will you be using this place?"
They answered:
☀️ "About 10 minutes. The sun is too hot. I can't stand it."
I noticed something interesting.
I asked how long they would be using the place.
They answered with a complaint.
I did not ask about the weather.
I did not ask how they felt.
I only asked how long they would be there.
Yet the complaint entered the conversation anyway.
Many people do this without realizing it.
A simple question becomes an opportunity to talk about what they dislike.
A neutral conversation becomes a place to vent.
Over time, complaining can become so automatic that they no longer notice how often they do it.
⚠️ What they often fail to see is that every complaint is more than words.
It is a rehearsal.
Every time they retell the frustration, they revisit the emotion.
Every time they repeat the grievance, they strengthen the habit.
The sun may be hot. That may be true.
But repeatedly saying, "It's too hot. I can't stand it," does not change the temperature.
Instead, it can deepen the feeling of discomfort.
The person speaks the complaint.
Then hears it.
Then thinks about it.
Then feels it more strongly.
🔄 The event happens once.
The complaint replays it many times.
Many people believe their emotional state is created entirely by their circumstances.
They never stop to consider how much of that emotional state is being maintained by what they repeatedly focus on and speak about.
🌻 A grateful mind asks:
"What is good here?"
🌧 A complaining mind asks:
"What is wrong here?"
Both receive answers according to the question they repeatedly ask.
The habit of complaining is not just speaking about a negative experience.
It is practicing one.
🤔 Reflection:
Think about your last ten conversations.
How many times did you bring up something you disliked when nobody asked about it?
Were those words helping you move toward gratitude, or were they guiding your attention back to dissatisfaction? 🌱