Self-love and selfishness!

 

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Self-love and selfishness!

And when we love ourselves this way, there is no way we can harm any other person in the world! For we will find ourselves in everyone!!! We become everyone! And that includes every life form in the Universe!

And in the other extreme to this state is “selfishness”. It is totally dependent on the assumption that we are separate from the other! We identify ourselves with what is pleasing and dear to us. It may many times also include all that we call our “own” like our relations, possessions, achievements and desires! And in the “good intention” of protecting our ‘own’ we end up hurting all and sundry whom we assume to be responsible or seem threat to our identity! Here, we even go to the extent of killing the other for our benefit – sometimes!

This is exactly the reason why a person hurts, insults, manipulates, lies, cheats, dishonours and exploits the other.

So, you see self-love is so very different from selfishness!

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# self-love, selfishness, sharing and caring, love, relationship, ignorance and knowledge, ignorance, ego, separateness, 

also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Me%2C+My+Guru+%E2%80%93+A+stinking+frog%21

Self-love and selfishness!

 

Self-love and selfishness!

We mistake selfishness for self-love! Both are not the same!

Self-love:

A person can love self only when he knows who he is!

How can you love something that you don’t know?

We are so used to desiring and wanting things that we don’t know anything about. And in the same way, we think by knowing there is ‘self’ or ‘atman’ as some name it, we already own it and love it!!??

First, one should know what one is. We should then experience it! Isn’t it funny, odd, ironic and interesting to know that we are not experiencing ourselves? 

We live through our lives without ever even having a slight brush with ourselves??? And only then, will we be able to love us. Well, here it is bit easy job. Because, we don’t have to put in an effort to love ourselves. For just knowing ourselves we will also know our “swaroopa” nature itself to be “love”. Then, only then will we know what love is and loving is!!! 

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# self-love, selfishness, sharing and caring, love, relationship, ignorance and knowledge, ignorance, ego, separateness, 

also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-river.html 

Becoming eligible for grace – By sharing their experiences/insights/understandings/answering the questions posed!

 

Becoming eligible for grace – By sharing their experiences/insights/understandings/answering the questions posed!

Udaya Bhanu, Bhagya Rekha, Kshitija, Aparna, Mona – Mogambo khush hua – for sharing this week – and so will be sending Reiki to you all 3 days from today!

Were you aware of receiving?

Sharing enriches a person like nothing else! Such an innocent act and yet has such a profound impact on our sadhan levels, emotional well-being, karma, returns that we get and the list continues …

Are you noticing the benefits of this sharing in your life/state of mind?

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also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-sharing-your-experiences.html       

Dassera 2023

 

Dassera 2023

This year, let’s work towards the spirit of Dassera.

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2016/10/on-dassera_7.html

and

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-rituals-and-traditions.html 

Read the previous posts to understand it better.

Let’s resolve to work on ‘asura’ within!

Let’s seek Mother’s blessings in killing the ‘asura’ within!

Let’s work towards our freedom!

 

What is the work plan?

What are we supposed to do?

What do you propose to do?

What should be our agenda?

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Becoming eligible for grace – for finding little joys!

 

Becoming eligible for grace – for finding little joys!

Aparna will receive for next two days for finding joy in little nothings of life! 

Way to go!

Why?

When a person appreciates the beauty present in life he finds abundance that is there already in life. He becomes hopeful. He is cheerful! He radiates joy around himself and to people he comes in contact with! He is charged with energy!!!

And with the "extra bounce of energy" that he starts feeling, he looks for things to achieve and chase in life. He diverts his energy towards his dreams and desires! And he finds himself endowed with strength, stamina and zest enough to fulfill his dreams! And with gratitude he raises his hands up to the sky and thanks the Lord for it! And the "beautiful cycle of abundance, receiving grace and joy" continues.....

So, now, is it clear???

What did you understand?

What is the quality worth developing?

What is the quality worth putting into practice every single day of life?

How would that benefit you?

Don't look at the other - come back to self!

 

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Don't look at the other - come back to self!

Now, you tell me, what did you understand?

What is your immediate action plan?

What is your takshana kartavyam?

What do you propose to do?

Any doubts?

So let’s take a detour from this dard-ki-gali (pain street) and walk towards our abundance!!!

I have put up a sign “take a diversion” sign? Are you able to see that?

Was it useful? Don’t answer now….

Let’s see if it was useful after a week……keep me posted after a week…

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Don't look at the other - come back to self!

 

Don't look at the other - come back to self!

Half of our energy gets drained while proving the other person “wrong”!

Do we need it?

What is the purpose of our life?

To prove the other as wrong or growing as a person?

We need energy to make things right in our life. We need energy to sustain various aspects of our lives like physical, mental, professional, financial and so on and so forth! Isn’t that our need of the hour? Shouldn’t that be the ONLY concern in our life? Shouldn’t we be concentrating on the “personal growth” rather than spend our time and energy on those who are hell-bent on seeing us suffer, fail and be miserable?

Think about it!

Thoughts will come that are detrimental to us! Thoughts will arise that are negative and non-supportive for our growth!!! So what? Let them rise and fall! Let them come and go! You don’t identify with them. Don’t start a dialogue with those thoughts. Don’t engage those thoughts! Don’t label them! Just don’t bother about them. Let them be! You keep working, thinking and doing Reiki, which benefits your well-being and lo! The issue that was painful and the cause of failure in your life itself would have acted as a trampoline that propelled your growth in your life!

Now, you tell me, what did you understand?

What is your immediate action plan?

What is your takshana kartavyam తక్షణ కర్తవ్యం ?

What do you propose to do?

Any doubts? 

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# proving others wrong, on being successful, conserving energy, achievements, ego, right or wrong,

also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Me%2C+my+guru+%E2%80%93+on+choosing+love+over+hate%21