Aparigraha - Non-possessiveness🔗

Understand, when Mahāvīra says drop your desires and don't possess – aparigraha - live in non-possessiveness, if you don't practice it and directly start arguing, 'How can I live without possessing things? It is life negative, it is not possible,' you will create all words. But if you really understand Mahāvīra and start living in non-possessiveness, if you clear your inner space and make yourself a non-possessive being, suddenly you will see so much of inner space is available.

You will take many risks, because as long as a person thinks that the wealth he is having is too valuable to lose, as long as he possesses, he will never take any step in life, he will not allow the flow happening in his life.

Understand, currency means that which is flowing, it will stay only with people who are allowing it to flow; if you stop the flow, it will stink.

The teachings of these great Masters should be applied in life, then you will see the results are totally different and surprising. You can't imagine the followers of the Master who is teaching non-possessiveness are the richest people! The reason is, when you really understand and create enough inner space, you will have enough courage and energy to take risks.

I tell you, maybe rarely one or two may fail in business, but constantly if you are thinking about it and if you are possessive of a few things which you are having, you are not going to take any risk, you will not allow life to flow. So you will never expand. And to tell you honestly, any desire you have, if you are possessing something, if you are holding something, if you think that that is the most important thing in your life, be very clear, you are holding something smaller than your capacity. ```

I told very clearly, all the disciples were shocked; they said, 'What is this Swamiji? You are saying you will destroy the whole organization!' I said, 'Yes, for the spiritual ideology only the whole organization is getting created, this whole infrastructure is getting created. If the spiritual ideology is not maintained, you are not worthy of and you don't have the right to use that infrastructure.'

One more thing, Mahāvīra tried a great mystical thing: he tried to create a society in which the souls which want to get liberated take birth with the full opportunity to get enlightened, where all the possibility for enlightenment is available. Enlightenment is the priority for that society, so that any soul which wants to get liberation can choose this community to take birth.

Be very clear, if you have chosen a Jain father or mother, whether you believe it or not, you had a deep thirst for enlightenment. Of course, once you assume the body, you forget it, that is the difficulty. When you assume the body, you forget, because your inner space is filled with different objects.

Realize the Purpose of Your Birth

Patanjali says, when you achieve non-possessiveness, you get the true realization about your past and what for you took birth on the planet earth. Understand, Mahāvīra says he created this community especially for the souls who want enlightenment to take birth. He says that non-possessiveness will expand you and talks about how the non-possessiveness leads you to enlightenment.

Patanjali gives a beautiful sutra, 'If you start living in non-possessiveness, you will experience the Truths of your past life and the decisions which you made before you took birth, about the purpose of your birth.'

If you just understand this idea of non-possessiveness and start living with it, you will realize you took birth in this family to a Jain father and mother, for enlightenment - because this community is created for that purpose, keeping that as a priority. And the wealth which you are enjoying is a byproduct of that great ideology, so it is your responsibility to hold the dharma (right way of living) and work towards enlightenment.

You will be surprised to see step by step how this great ideology is revealed and how he created this whole system. Let us enter into the first sutra. The first sutra is about ahimsa - Damma sutra, Ahimsa sutra.