ŚRADDHA, YOUR PEAK POSSIBILITY
Śraddhā cannot really be translated as faith. It means faith plus the courage of authenticity to execute the highest level of possibility. In English, there is no equivalent for śraddha. Sraddha is authenticity, but authenticity is not all-encompassing translation of śraddha.
The courage of being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, what others expect you to be for them and what you expect them to be for you is what is called śraddhā, Authenticity.
A small story: A man born blind goes to the doctor and asks, 'Doctor, will you help me gain my eyesight?' The doctor says, 'Don't worry, I will perform an operation. You will get your vision and after that you can walk without your stick.'
Blind people always carry a stick to feel their way around. The doctor tells him that he will be able to walk without the stick. The blind man asks, 'Doctor, I understand you will do an operation. I understand I will have my eyesight restored. But I don't understand howI can walk without the stick?'
By and by, the blind man had forgotten that his stick was just an aid. In the same way, just live without the mind. Just live without purpose and goals, you will be able to walk without the stick. The stick is nothing but your planning and worrying. By and by, worrying has become a part of you.
Courage is the fragrance of authenticity. When you have the courage of authenticity, śraddha towards living these teachings and start living without purpose, only then will you realize that you don't need the stick to walk. That is when you become authentic to your peak possibility. Once you enter into the depths of your being, you will enter into a totally different dimension. Whatever you think now as spiritual life or material life both lose their meaning and you will enter a new dimension of life. You will be established in authenticity, in the space of possibility.
When you enter into your being, when you experience the purposelessness of life, the so-called material life and spiritual life both drop you and you enter what is called 'Quantum spirituality' or Eternal Consciousness. You are then in eternal bliss. Only then you will understand you don't need worries to live. You don't need your mind. Until you reach the being, you need to have śraddha
The next word is a beautiful word: 'anasūyanto,' which means 'without envy.' This is important. We all think, 'He has that, she has this,' what happens?
All your spirituality, all your authenticity, all your purposelessness, everything just disappears.
You are again in the same rat race. If your neighbor buys a new air conditioner, the temperature in your house shoots up. Envy is the parasite pattern that puts you back in the same rut of inauthenticity. The problem with the rat race is this—even if you win, you are still a rat!
Any pattern you create before the age of seven is the root pattern. Any pattern created after the age of seven is a parasite pattern.
First you will have to work on completing with the parasite patterns and then completing with all the root patterns.
The moment the parasite pattern of envy or jealousy enters your being, authenticity disappears, purposelessness disappears. Again, you fall into social conditioning and you start running behind goals like a rat.
Kṛṣṇa is asking Arjuna to bring śraddha or authenticity in action to the peak possibility of what he perceives as himself and what he projects as himself, without the parasite pattern of envy.
Illusion makes us all dance with this one stick, jealousy. Have you seen guys who make money using monkeys in Bharat?
On the roadside, they perform a small show with monkeys. With a small stick they make the monkey dance and do whatever they want it to.
In the same way, the power of illusion is making you run as it wants with just one stick called jealousy.
The moment you compare, you just jump into your lower dimensions, the same rut which is called the purposeful life.
One more thing: When we do things out of comparison, we do only foolish things. Our intelligence stops working and our performance falls short of our peak potential, because we now use someone else's productivity as our measuring stick. If you do things out of the parasite patterns of jealousy, you will end up being inauthentic in your actions. Comparison or jealousy is the root from which inauthenticity justifies itself and continues to exist in you!
Do not allow it. Each one of us is unique. There is no need to compare with any other person. You are unique.
When you are in conflict, you will naturally suffer. Wherever you are in conflict, be very clear you are in conflict, even though you point at others' inauthenticity. Constantly practicing authenticity brings you to the space of possibility.
Śraddha or Authenticity continuously connects you with yourself and your highest possibility. Life is for realizing that possibility. Life is for realizing the Self. Life is for realizing itself.
Constantly go on expanding! Neither expression nor suppression is the solution, only completion with your inauthentic identities is the solution. The solution is to infuse śraddha, the courage of authenticity into this process. For example: your reaction of irritation has nothing to do with what the person has done. If you look a little deeper, you can see it is how you choose to react based on your root and parasite patterns that decides what you feel about the person. You choose to get irritated by what he is doing
Authenticity is the key. If you bring authenticity to what you perceive as you, to what is happening within you and what you project yourself outside you, you will not be controlled by your unconscious patterns. You will be able to see clearly when lower emotions arise or unconscious reactions arise.
The awareness of your inauthenticity will itself bring you to your peak capability. Then, you will naturally drop all your lower level emotions and live authenticity without envy, the space of possibility.
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For children to learn about authenticity. For children to understand to drop comparison and jealousy.
- What is required to become "hollow bamboo ... a flute in the hands of Kṛṣṇa"?
- What is the difference between conscience and consciousness?
- What is Śraddha?
- What is the fragrance of authenticity?
- Do you need worries to live?
- What is anasūyanto?
- What effect does envy have on you?
- Until what age are root patterns created?
- What are illusion, comparison and jealousy?
- Why is there no need to compare with any other person?
- Is life expanding or shrinking?