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The Essence of Living Enlightenment

Get back in control

Responsibility gives you control over your own life. As of now, most people live their life like slaves – without even knowing it. For example, when you work eight hours in your office just following orders, you will feel dull and tired. Instead, if you take up responsibility and initiative, the same eight hours will become fulfilling for you. When you take up responsibility, a huge cognitive shift happens in you.

Take the case of a person who is running his own business, and another person who is working for a company. The owner of the business has the full responsibility of his business, so he always feels alive. The person who is working for the company does not really feel the full responsibility, so the whole job becomes like a burden on him. There is little or no self-motivation. He keeps looking at his watch to see if it is time to leave! For him, only the last day of every month is sweet, since it is payday! In a month, he sacrifices twenty-nine days for one day of joy.

Do not think you have a certain amount of energy and you will work according to that energy. No. Whatever work and responsibility you take up, the energy starts expressing accordingly. You will see that your inner space expands to that extent and energy flows through you!

You only need to do two things for this:

  • v Trust that life is good
  • v Know that you can expand to the responsibilities that you take up

If you feel responsible for whatever is happening around you, you suddenly become a leader. You start transforming your life and others' lives. Responsibility is the way to grow consciously.

Today, take three additional responsibilities with the understanding and trust that life is good, and you can expand to take up those responsibilities. Watch the transformation in yourself.