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The Essence of Living Enlightenment

Responsibility is a Power

We always think responsibility is a burden.

No!

It is a power.

Responsibility is the means to create an expanded life for you and others.

Why do you not take up responsibility?

Usually, people think, 'For the salary that I get, I am already taking more than enough responsibility! Why should I take any more?'

Don't be foolish! Taking responsibility is going to help you live an expanded life. It is not a favor that you do for your boss. By not taking up responsibility, you are destroying your possibility, not your boss' possibility! You destroy your possibility, and you think your boss will be suffering! It is like you drinking poison and expecting your boss to die!

Only when you break the pattern of not taking responsibility for your own expansion, your life begins. Until then, even if you are alive, you are no longer living. You are just waiting to be buried.

The Hindu caste-system is based not on birth, but on the type and amount of responsibility the person is willing to take. A person who feels responsible for the communitiy's walth becomes a Vaishya. A person who feels responsible for the community's security becomes a Kshatriya. A person who feels responsible for the community'sknowledge becomes a Brahmana. And person who feels responsible for the whole world becomes a sannyasi, a monk.

When you take responsibility for all the happenings in your physical layer, you become healthy. When you take the responsibility for your body, suddenly you will see that your organs have become alive, your body is in tune with health.

In the same way, when you take responsibility for all happenings in your breathing space, you become a team leader. When you take responsibility for all happenings in your mental layer, you become a social leader. When you take responsibility for all happenings in your emotional layer, you become the leader of a country – setting the trend for the mental makeup of future generations. When you take responsibility for all the happenings in your bliss layer, you become the leader of the Cosmos!

Do not measure your level of responsibility with the rewards it brings. Look at your life and note down how you can expand to take responsibility for all your dimensions – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Practice this with authenticity.