Why should I enrich others?🔗

Understand - you do not live in a cave or a forest!

You live with other people. Life is happening outside of you. Life is happening to you with others!

You are involved with hundreds of others, and hundreds of others are involved with you. Naturally, when so many people are involved in your life, for any transformation that you want in your life, you have to work and transform others' lives as well!

Otherwise, you may sit and meditate for months and raise yourself to a high level of joy and bliss, but the moment you come back home, your spouse can bring you down in less than ten minutes! Ten minutes is more than enough! A look, a word or even a phone call is enough. Only when you enrich others can your life go through any real transformation.

Whether you know it or not, you are constantly imbibing the qualities of your environment. You are constantly exchanging vibrations with those around you. So if you want to be wealthy, you should either be in the company of wealthy people, or make the people in your company wealthy! If you want to be healthy, you should either be in the company of healthy people, or make the people in your company healthy. In the same way, if you want to be spiritual, you should either be in the company of spiritual people, or make the people in your company spiritual!

When you are practicing these tattvas by yourself, you will remain only in practice mode. But when you are enriching, integrity and authenticity simply become a part of you. When you enrich, you start living the tattvas effortlessly. Only then can these tattvas become satyas or truths in you.

When you want to work with your life and transform it, you have to work with others also. Enriching means taking responsibility for everyone! When you start enriching others, the cosmos flows through you. The joy happening in you, the inspiration happening in you, is pure cosmic energy. If you want to taste cosmic energy, just start enriching others today.

When you enrich others to live integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, your karmas are simply burnt away. That is why, in Hindu tradition, we have this great truth as a faith – if one person takes up sannyas, the monastic life, seven generations of his family on all sides have the possibility of liberation. If one person in your family becomes a sannyasi, seven generations can be straightaway liberated!

A sannyasi's life is dedicated to enriching. So when a person takes the sannyas vows, just the power of his commitment creates so much punya (merit) that it brings down a shower of blessings from the cosmos, and the karmas of seven generations are simply wiped way.

When you enrich others, not only your own karmas but their karmas are also burnt away.

• 1. List down all the areas of life where you feel that you are not enriched.
• 2. List down on all the ways in which you can enrich others in these very areas.
• 3. In each case, find out how enriching others is also going to enrich you.