Awaken each day with total humility, stretch your arms wide open and be
sure that Life will provide you all that you need. Our grief comes from our
wants. Wants always have an element of ego, a demand, in them. But when you
approach Life with humility, saying, fill my Life with what you believe I need,
not only will everything be taken care of__as has always been__but you will
never ever be in grief.
This morning I read a beautiful interview that Times of India has done with A R Rahman. He tells Priya Gupta: “Every time I sit for a
song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill
your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody
around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is
not humanly possible without inspiration.”
This is the humility I am referring to. Caught in the trap of the mindless
rat race we run, our wants have increased manifold. And so have our
insecurities and anxieties. When things don’t go as per our wishes, when what
we want doesn’t happen, we agonize and blame an external God for our
misfortunes. We have ended up becoming so full of ourselves__our grief, our problems,
our wants. This is the only reason why our lives are not complete and yet we
feel spent! This is why we are unable to create value in whatever we do daily.
To feel enriched and live fully, we must empty ourselves daily. When we approach
Life with a sense of nothingness, nobody-ness, in total surrender, we will be
able to see and experience the Life that is ordained for us. Most important, we
will feel peaceful and blissful within!
Our wanting anything is of no consequence really. There’s an old Arabic
proverb that goes like this: “What is destined will reach you even if it be beneath two
mountains. What is not destined will not reach you even if it be between your
two lips.” Let’s remember that this
Life has been given to each one of us. We didn’t ask for it. So, logically, if
something has come free, without your asking for it, you don’t impose your
wants on it. You accept what’s being given and use it intelligently, fully!
That fullness can only come from respecting Life and being responsible for your
own lifetime. When you impose your wants on Life you are being both ungrateful
and irresponsible. Your wants must cease for the God within you to find expression.
This is why people like Rahman, or any successful or creative person, is
able to live in this same, cold, dog-eat-dog, world that we live in and are
able to produce a matchless, beautiful, work of art each day. I am not talking
of celebrity achievements here. You and I too can achieve those levels of
creative expression, leading to phenomenal success, if we learn to empty
ourselves and let Life take care of us. That then would be a true celebration
of our lives and making them meaningful – leading us to bliss and peace.
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