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Do you feel life is unfair? Are you slow to trust people? Are you afraid of being exploited?

Fear is the worst kind of cancer which stops us from expanding and enriching ourselves and others.

Please understand, fear is nothing but carrying an inadequate cognition about yourself and life. If you feel that life is manipulating you, it is not just a wrong cognition you have about life; it is a wrong cognition you have about YOU!

Feeling disconnected from life and powerless before others is nothing but selfishness – because it arises from a high level of self-centeredness, from a limited cognition you have about yourself and life. The truth is that you are NOT separate from others as you imagine. So any idea which stops you from expanding out of your limited identity is selfishness and self-centeredness.

That one wrong cognition or inadequate cognition is like one cancerous cell in your body, but you infuse all your energy into the growth of that cell! What will happen? If you go on feeding that inadequate cognition, you become self-destructive. The way you walk, talk, live, think - everything is corrupted!

Self-centeredness out of completion, out of enlightenment, out of the understanding that you are the Source, is different. Once you understand that you are the Source of everything happening inside you and around you, there is no space for individual self-centeredness to exist. Feeling everyone as yourself and then being self-centered is the ultimate enriching!

But unfortunately, your self-centeredness comes out of deep fear and incompletion. The more you encourage it, the more it is strengthened – and the more it is strengthened, the more your thinking becomes based on self-centeredness. It is a vicious cycle! You can come out of this vicious circle only through enriching. When you start enriching, your fears, incompletions and self-centeredness will dissolve spontaneously, because enriching opens you to your expanded self, to your bigger self.

• 1. Recall the most challenging thing that you accomplished in your life e.g. facing an exam, a job interview, a competition or solving a simple math equation.
• 2. List five ways in which you can enrich others to overcome this challenge in their life.
• 3. Take responsibility for them and be as intense as you were while overcoming your own challenge.

Your life is as great as those around you

A small story:

A young man comes up to his father and shares, 'Dad, I'm in love with the pretty young girl next door, and I'm going to propose to her!'

The father immediately says, 'Oh, no! You can't do that!

'But why?', asks the son.

'Because she's your half-sister!', says the father.

The son is shocked to hear this, but he obeys his father's words.

A month later, he comes to his father and says, 'Dad, you remember the girl who stays opposite us? I plan to start dating her.'

Again, the father cries out, 'Don't do that! She's your half-sister! And please don't tell your mother about it!'

The son is really mad at his father, but he shuts up and listens to him.

The third time, the son finds another girl, and his father repeats the same thing.

This time, the son decides that it is too much. He rushes to his mother and tells her everything.

He says, 'See what Dad has done! He has ruined your life, and now he is ruining my life also. Whichever girl I choose, he says she is my half-sister!'

The mother says, 'Don't worry, son. You can marry any of the three girls, because he is not your father!'

Never imagine that you can live a good life when the people around you are living without integrity and authenticity! Any completion, any fulfilment, any success, is possible in your life only if the people in your life are also living these principles.

Understand, you are the totality of your many dimensions. You are a father, a friend, a spouse, a son, a boss, and more. All the people in your life contribute to one of your dimensions. Only when all the dimensions and commitments in you are complete and honored, you can experience fulfilment. When they are complete, automatically you will be complete.

For example, the success of your marriage depends on how much you can enrich your spouse. Even if you live with integrity and authenticity, your marriage cannot be successful unless your spouse is also living the same way! Only then can you experience restful awareness.

You forget that life is happening for you with others! When you disown the responsibilities you need to take for others, you are taking the people in your life for granted. You think your wife has to behave like a wife, your brother has to behave like a brother, your

father has to behave like a father, your friend has to behave like a friend, your son has to behave like a son, your student has to behave like a student, your teacher has to behave like a teacher, and your guru has to behave like a guru - but you don't take the responsibility to fulfil your role in the relationship!

Why should your wife behave as a wife, if you are not taking the responsibility of enriching her as a husband? Listen: when you don't enrich the other, even what you receive from that person will not be useful for you. When you are enriching life, you will constantly be enriched by life.

So enriching others is a direct way of enriching your own life. Whatever you enrich others with comes back to you as more enrichment.

All the people in your life contribute to one of your dimensions. Only when they are complete, you can be complete.