Integrity Teaches Responsibility In Action🔗

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

karmaṇyevādhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana mā karmaphalaheturbhūr mā te saṅgo 'stvakarmaṇi

You have a right only to work, but never to the fruits (outcome) of action Never let the fruit of action be your motive and never let your attachment be to i naction

Success is natural.

yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya siddhyasiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga ucyate O

Dhanañjaya! Do your actions dropping all attachment to the outcome, being centered and complete in Yoga. Be balanced in success and failure. Such evenness of mind is Yoga

Yoga is completion with the Divine.

Kṛṣṇa says, 'You have the right and responsibility to work. You have no responsibility or right to the results of that work. Do not focus on the result and make it either a pattern of greed to chase or fear to stay away from. Do what you have to do with a centered mind, a complete inner space without worrying about whether you will succeed or fail.

One of the biggest problems human beings have is this—you love to be successful, but you deeply believe that you are a failure. This is one of the biggest paradoxes. This shows the lack of integrity in yourthinking. Understand, some of your actions may be a failure, some of your decisions or dimensions may be a failure, but YOU are never failure, because you are still breathing!

Listen. Awareness of what Kṛṣṇa says here is the solution to all our day-to-day problems. Do what you have to do as your right and responsibility, without worrying about the results. Do not act with hopes of a certain reward. Do not stop doing what you need to do because you are afraid of what may lie ahead.

Constantly bring integrity to your thinking, authenticity to your feeling, responsibility to your actions, enriching to your lifestyle! You will see, you will realize an extraordinary space in your life, what Kṛṣṇa calls as being balanced in success and failure and being complete in yoga.

With integrity, you will literally clean your inner space of the constant unwanted beliefs that you carry, like the strong belief that you will be a failure.

This continuous belief holds you from taking responsibility for your actions, makes you worry about the results, and leads you towards failure! When you start thinking with integrity, you will diagnose those self-fulfilling negative prophecies that you constantly give to yourself.

Listen. When you take responsibility with authenticity, consciousness starts growing more intensely in the body! Shrinking does not happen. Bring integrity; you will understand that success is the natural flow of your life.

You are not in integrity with yourself, when you say one thing and do another. But, when your talk is in integrity and authenticity, then your words will become reality. You will have vāk siddhi—the power to manifest your word as reality! But if the talk itself is lacking integrity, then your actions will also be out-of- integrity and you lose self-confidence.

Integrity is the first lesson of spiritual life. If you bring integrity to your inner space, you will realize that you are attracting everything in your life, whether it is wealth or poverty, right or wrong. You are responsible for your life.

When you are in completion, with integrity, without internal conflict or contradictions, whatever you project on the cosmos is a project for the cosmos! Simply cosmos does it. That is the power of integrity!

Yoga is your realization of your own Self, your realization that you are divine. It is the state of completion, the state of truth, the state of the present, when all that you do will be in righteous consciousness, dharma.

So, do not link thoughts and create a shaft of thoughts. Unclutch from your thoughts by bringing integrity and weed out all your negative self- fulfilling patterns. Listen! Constantly listening to your own inner space is the beginning of integrity. If your inner space says that there is nothing more to listen, if only silence is there, then that is the end of integrity. As long as you are hearing something from your inner space, it is lack of integrity. Go on listening. Even while you are in action, karma— sitting, driving, talking or walking, listen to you. Integrity is the basic requirement for Unclutching. When you are in a state of an unclutched inner space, you are in completion and you are in the present moment, where regrets of your past and expectations of the future are absent from your mind. Whatever you do in such a state of completion would be the right thing to do. You are not influenced either by fear or greed regarding the outcome. You do what you have to do, naturally.

❖ Helping each child understand the power of integrity.

❖ Helping the children understand that real success comes from the state of unclutching and the space of completion.

❖ Helping the children come to a space of listening.

• ❖ What is one of the biggest problems human face?
• ❖ What is the solution to our day-to-day problems?
• ❖ What does integrity teach?
• ❖ What is vāk siddhi?
• ❖ How does cosmos react when you are in completion?
• ❖ Define yoga.
• ❖ When does suffering happen?
• ❖ How can you tell that there is a lack of integrity in you?
• ❖ What is the connection between integrity and unclutching?
• ❖ What is the connection between completion and unclutching?

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