Mystical powers need integrity
Bring integrity into your thinking, and you will see so many extraordinary powers expressing through you.
When you continuously live in integrity, your bio-memory becomes so subtle that it stops asking for food from outside and starts absorbing food directly from space! Anyone who has practised the nirahara samyama (technique for going beyond the need for food) would have experienced this. If you have done this samyama and failed, know that you are not in integrity.
When you bring integrity into your thinking, you do not waste energy in your inner space, and your bio-memory stops asking for matter and food from an external source.
When you bring integrity into your thinking, your bio-memory stops asking for matter and food from an external source.
Authenticity is the state where you are established in the peak of your capability and respond to life from who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and what others expect you to be for them.
You have multiple dimensions
Listen!
You don't have just one identity, as you imagine. You have four identities! At all times, you carry four identities or dimensions together inside you. All these four dimensions put together is your personality. You are responsible for all these identities.
The first of these three identities is MAMAKARA or inner image.
It is the inner image and experience you carry about yourself: I am healthy - I am ugly - I am intelligent - I cannot tolerate hard work – I love people – etc.
We carry many such mamakara about ourselves. Unfortunately, the idea you carry about you is always less then what you project yourself to be for others!
The second identity is AHAMKARA or outer image.
It is how you project yourself to others. We may try to project ourselves as powerful, talented, honest, helpful or whatever. Unfortunately, what you project is always far more then what you believe yourself to be.
Apart from these two, there is a third identity you carry, which is the image or expectations that others have about you.
This is called ANYAKARA or others' image.
How others perceive you may be different from how you project yourself to them, because people create their opinion about you from the subtle signals you give them, rather than what you openly project. Human beings are intelligent enough to catch even what you don't say - or especially what you don't say!
The fourth identity is very subtle, because it is not directly related to you.
It is called SVA-ANYAKARA or life image.
Sva-anyakara is what you experience life to be for you. For example, you may feel – Life is lonely, or Life is complicated, or Life is sacred, or Life is scary, or Life is always showering me with everything I need.
Please understand, this is also your identity, because it defines the exact experience you will be receiving from the people and situations in your life!
You don't have just one identity, as you imagine. You have four identities!
Authenticity means living at your peak
Authenticity means living at your peak in every dimension.
v Whatever you believe as you - take that to its peak, stretch it, raise it, expand it!
v What you project as yourself to others – take that to its peak, stretch it, raise it, expand it!
v How you fulfill others' expectations about you – take that to its peak, stretch it, raise it, expand it!
v How you experience life for yourself - take that to its peak, stretch it, raise it, expand it!
Stretch yourself to the peak of fulfilling all your dimensions!
Bring yourself to the peak, whether it is related to your body, your profession, your relationships, your whole life!
v When you are performing at the peak capability of your body, it is called HEALTH v When you are performing at the peak capability of your profession, it is called SUCCESS v When you are performing at the peak capability of your relationships, it is called FULFILMENT v When you are performing at the peak capability of your whole life, it becomes ENLIGHTENMENT!
Bring yourself to your peak possibility continuously, without allowing tiredness or boredom to enter your life. Don't bother about whether others are doing it or not. When you are authentic, you expand, that's all.
v If you are willing to stretch only if the other person is also willing to stretch, it is a business transaction.
v If you are going to wait for the other person to stretch first before you stretch, it is cunningness.
v When you try to stretch those around you without stretching yourself, it is violence!
v When you stretch yourself without bothering about whether other people are stretching or not, it is authenticity.
v When you stretch yourself and also stretch those around you to their peak possibility, that is true leadership.