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The Essence of Living Enlightenment

Three kinds of people

Listen: there are three kinds of people on planet Earth - those who feel responsible for everything, those who feel responsible for some things, and those who do not feel responsible for anything!

Those who feel responsible become leaders, and those who do not feel responsible remain slaves.

There are some people who do not even take responsibility for their own actions, their own existence! Because they are not able to gauge the results of their actions, they remain slaves forever.

The second type of people take responsibility for their own actions. They live a middle-class life with one house, one car, one wife, two kids - what I call the neo-middle-class happening in Bharat. But can a life lived on a mediocre middle-class level be fulfilling?

The third type of people are those who take responsibility even for other people's actions. When you take responsibility even for others' actions and others' irresponsibility, you become a leader.

Here is a small story which everybody knows!

Once upon a time there were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

Once there was an important job to be done. But who was to do it?

Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

A person who does not feel responsible even for his own actions is an animal – he lives at a very low level of consciousness. A person who feels

responsible only for his own actions is a human being – he lives in middle-level consciousness. A person who takes responsibility even for others' actions is divine – he lives in leadership consciousness, ishwaratva.

Even though your actions are not responsible for something, taking responsibility even for others' inauthenticity and irresponsibility makes you a leader.

From today, declare that you will start taking responsibility for your own actions and the actions of those around you.

Write down which actions you will take responsibility for. Review this every day, and the next time you see somebody making a mistake, take responsibility for it.

See the difference in

a) The way you feel about yourself

b) How the other person responds to you.