Shakti – Energy🔗

Please understand, laziness is not spirituality. Spirituality is not a tamasic acceptance of life. Tamas means laziness and laziness is not spirituality. You have the energy to change whatever you can change in your life.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, is life pre-destined or do we have a free will?' Life is like a tape-recorder. If you don't intervene it will go on as pre-programmed. But if you have the will, you can intervene and change things at any point with a simple effort.

Many times, we think spirituality means we don't have to change anything. No! The whole Hindu culture is suffering with this one misunderstanding. They think spirituality means nothing needs to be changed. I have seen in Bharat, spirituality means, 'Oh, God will take care of everything!' When it comes to their personal life, they do everything. When it comes to changing what they need to change, they say, 'God will take care of everything!'

The other day, one person came to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and said, 'Swamiji, I am addicted. Please do something and help me.' THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM told him, 'Take responsibility, change your mentality. I will guide you. I will support you.'

After one week, he came back again, 'No, no, no. I have surrendered to you. You only have to change me. I can't do anything.' THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM told him, 'What do you mean by it? Do you want me to take your car keys and hide? Be intelligent. Be responsible. I can only guide you. You have to stand up.'

Stand up and change whatever needs to be changed. Having the courage, having the energy, having the strength to change whatever needs to be changed, is shakti. Take responsibility. Stand up; it is your life. Be little more intelligent. Be little stronger. Be little more open. Be little more available to the Truth.