Understand yourself. That’s more important than having others
understand you. Believe in yourself. That’s more productive than insisting that
others believe you.
But as humans we do just the opposite. We crave for being
understood by others and lament the lack of faith others have in us. What use
is anyone else’s understanding if you don’t know, don’t realize, don’t accept
that you are special. That you are capable. That you have been created to enjoy
this lifetime and not suffer it? It is from awareness of your true Self that
you will be introduced to the God within. Most of us just refuse to consider
the argument that the energy that powers us, that keeps us alive, is the God we
so desperately seek. Hence the lack of self-belief. Swami Vivekananda, the 19th
Century Indian thinker says, ““He is an atheist who
does not believe in himself.” This really is the most profound, yet simplest,
definition of who we are. And if we understand this reality, we will be able to
truly leverage the opportunity in front of us__which is on offer in the form of
this lifetime, each day, each hour, and in each moment!
Our perception of
ourselves, reveals our lack of understanding of our true Self. If we think we
are inadequate, we behave steeped in scarcity thinking. If we think we are
fully endowed we behave confidently like kings, like lions. To be sure, each of
us is created equal and is soaked in abundance. Osho, the Master, says in his
book, ‘One Seed Makes The Whole Earth
Green’, “And
every one of you is born a lion, but society goes on conditioning you,
programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a personality, a cozy
personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient. Society wants slaves, not
people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because
all the vested interests want obedience. Society cannot tolerate individuality,
because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the
quality of the lion; the lion moves alone. The sheep are always in the crowd,
hoping that being in the crowd will feel cozy. Being in the crowd one feels
more protected, secure. If somebody attacks, there is every possibility in a
crowd to save yourself. But alone? - only the lions move alone.”
So, that’s what you
are – a lion, but because you are cloaked in sheep’s clothing, we have started
imagining that we are incapable of being successful, being happy, being free,
being bliss! To discover your true Self, shake that cloak off. Realize yourself. Arise…Awake…Go on, be a lion….!
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