Enter the space of Possibility
How can we achieve the space of Possibility?
Listen: you first need to understand what moves you away from the space of Possibility.
As I said, you have multiple identities.
Usually, our inner identity or inner image will be much lower than the identity we project outside to others. But if you can project a higher identity to others, it means that the higher identity is already there is your chidakasha, your visualization space!
Understand, whatever you can imagine, whatever you can visualize as yourself, you already have the capacity to make that into reality! Otherwise, it would not be there in your cognition at all. For example, if you feel yourself as foolish, but to others you project yourself as intelligent, it means that you already have the capacity to be intelligent. Otherwise, you will not be able to visualize it continuously.
So if you have a higher visualization which you project outside, but inside you don't feel the same way, you are rejecting your own space of Possibility! This is inauthenticity.
Very rarely, you have a high inner image, but we project a lower image outside. For example you may feel strong inside, but you project yourself as weak for some reason, maybe to escape from certain responsibilities. Not owning up to what you know yourself to be is irresponsibility.
When the conflict is not between your inner and outer image, but within the same image itself, that is lack of integrity! At least, with inauthenticity and irresponsibility, your inner and outer images are fighting with each other. With non-integrity, it is an internal fight.
For example, many times you are confused about your own inner image. Sometimes you feel you are strong, and sometimes you feel you are weak, in the same situation! When you feel you are strong enough to handle a certain situation, you give a certain commitment to yourself, but later you feel that you cannot handle it, and you back out of your commitment.
In the same way, you may project yourself in conflicting ways to others. You may give confidence to others about your capabilities, and later let them down by not living up to it. When you break the commitment you give to yourself, it is non-integrity with yourself. When you break the commitment you give to others, it is non-integrity with others.
When all your identities are aligned, when you are in tune with what you are doing and what you want to be doing, when what you feel as you (mamakara) is in sync with what you show as you to the world (ahankara), what others perceive about you supports you! When your identities are aligned, the whole cosmos rushes to support you. This is the space of positivity, possibility, leadership and enlightenment. This is the space of miracles!
When your inner image and outer image are in sync, others' image of you continues to enrich you and support you in your ventures.
- 1) Scan your whole life and identify the specific aspects of your inner image (mamakara) which leave you with a conflicting experience of yourself.
- 2) Identify areas of your life where you feel powerless or experience conflict with yourself, because of certain ideas that you carry about yourself.
For example, you want to be successful in your life, but you are not able to achieve success. If you look in, you will see deep within, in your inner space, you may be believing again and again that you are a failure, and you may be thinking and uttering the words that you are a failure and you cannot be successful.
Understand, whenever you feel powerless or experience conflict in your life, there is surely some non-integrity and inauthenticity in that aspect of your life.
- 3) Identify the words you utter about yourself to yourself, which are not according to the peak of your capacity - ie. what you think of as your peak capacity, and what others think of as your peak capacity.
- 4) Look deeply within and identify the non-integrity and inauthenticity in those conflicting aspects of you that you carry inside you.
- 5) Now sit and complete with yourself (do the svapoornatva kriya). Restore integrity and authenticity in those aspects of your life.
Avatar is the space of Possibility
When I happened on this body and grew up in this body, I only saw the VAST possibility in front of me as Life. I never had the idea - Oh, it is difficult, it is impossible!
I still remember, when I started my life, when I started developing the feeling that I am the individual self, I started seeing life as a vast possibility. When I saw a temple pond, I knew I can simply jump in and swim, even though I have not learnt swimming. When I saw a huge piece of land, I knew I can grow a flower garden or a fruit garden or whatever I want there. When I entered my school for the examination, I just knew that I can pass the examination, even though I had not worked hard for it. When I saw the deity in the temple, I just knew I can reach Him! Everything I saw in front of my eyes was only a huge Possibility, or the reminder of Possibility – never an obstruction.
Authenticity means being in the space of Possibility. Cognizing the space of Possibility is the return to authenticity. One who is ever established in this space is an avatar.