94. Sharing.
During an Ananda healing session, one person asked me, 'I am a sinner, a rude man. I was a thief till some time back. Can people like me perform the holy thing of meditation?'
I told him, 'What you ask is like a patient, who went to a doctor saying, 'My health is bad. Can persons like me take your sacred medicines?' Joy bubbled up in his eyes!
- All good things are not created solely for good people only. They have been created only to be shared by one and all.
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- 'Sharing' is a meditation technique.
- 'Sharing' is a technique related to living, to cut and remove the ego without any feeling of pain.
- Do share whatever you hold in your heart. Whatever vacuum that is created earlier, by sharing it will be duly filled up with bliss.
- Experiment with the above statement. The door of bliss will automatically open by itself.
- Distress will decrease the more and more you share. Bliss will increase the more and more you share.
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A writer was sharing an incident that happened to him when he was a young and up-coming writer.
'That was the first book I wrote. I listened to the criticism of the book by others. During some conversation, I told my neighbor, 'For writing a story, there is no necessity for intelligence.'
The reply he got was, 'Yes sir, when I read your story book, I too came to the same conclusion only.'
The writer says, 'Though I was shaken by this reply, I took that as a lesson.'
- Sharing is even capable of turning up and showing you new pages again and again in the lesson of your life! Sharing is a kind of growth.
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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM once shared a happy incident that happened in his life. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's wife heard the gossip and mischievous talks of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. She began to pursue THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM playfully with a rolling pin used to make tortillas.
As THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM was running, thinking, 'Oh! It is a long time since we played this game of running and catching', and as his wife was chasing him, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM entered a crowded street and ran like a serpent.
As she was interested in pursuing THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM only, without listening to the shouts of the auto-rickshaw driver for her to move out of the way, she bumped on to the auto, and at the same time, the auto also came to a halt with a sudden brake.
Irritated by this, the auto driver shouted angrily, 'What madam! Why do you run in this haphazard manner? If you had indicated with your hand as to which direction you are going to turn, at least I could have avoided coming that way...'
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's wife hastily said, 'Don't talk without understanding the situation. I cannot point out the way in which I am searching.' So saying, she again began pursuing THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, who was still playing the game of running and catching with her.
Like THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's wife, it is the nature of the mind to imagine some reason or the other and run after the worry.
Once it appears to the mind that it has had enough chasing and being caught up in a particular worry, the mind will start chasing the next worry.
It is a practical truth that only our mind is searching again and again and finding these worries. To recognize such actions of the mind, even if we bring our careful attention to it, we can find out these instances when the mind runs after an imagined worry.
One small technique to bring to a halt the mind which finds comfort in searching and finding out the worries:
Do not allow any worry to stay in your mind for more than a single day. Throw away all things. Those who think that this is not feasible, start sharing your worries.
Share all your worries with such a person who totally influences your conscious feelings.
Don't worry if you do not have such a person who understands you and respects your feelings.
Go to spiritual gatherings, service organizations and the like.
There are many people like you waiting there, who wish to respect the feelings and share with others. A new path will be born.
Sharing the worries is like making the pus come out of the boil. That is not a total solution. Go beyond this; you have to travel towards bliss.
One day Moorg Mukundan, without getting sleep, was striding up and down in the court-yard of his house.
Mukundan's wife asked him, 'Oh Mukund! What happened? Why are you looking so worried?'
Mukundan said, 'I have to give Rs.10,000/- to the opposite house Dhanraj. I have dodged him for the last two weeks. I promised to return it to him tomorrow. But I don't have even a single rupee on hand. I don't have the hope that I will repay that loan in this birth. That's why I am worried.'
'Is this all the reason for your worry?' so saying, she got up suddenly and opened up the window and shouted, 'Dhanraj, Dhanraj!'
It was night time and Mukundan got agitated and said, 'Hey! What are you doing?'
Dhanraj opened his window.
Mukundan's wife shouted saying, 'Mr. Dhanraj, forget about the ten thousand rupees, you had given to my husband. He cannot return it.'
Dhanraj anxiously asked, 'What are you saying... Why can't he return it?'
Mukundan's wife said, 'It seems he cannot repay that loan in this birth. Because...! It seems he does not have any money at all. I called you only to tell this truth', so saying she slammed the window shut.
'Mukund, you sleep peacefully tonight. Hereafter, instead of you, he will begin to worry.' She said this and she winked her eyes meaningfully and lay down to sleep.
It is the nature of a wounded mind, for the sake of a minute's joy, subjecting others to worries, like Mukundan's wife.
If anxieties are shared with such people, who do not know to respect other's feelings, grief will increase further.
If worries are shared with people of spiritual consciousness, first thing, the worry will become lessened. Later on, solution will be obtained.
Beyond all these, it will be easy to learn the paths about blissful life from those persons who possess spiritual feelings. They will also help you with their total willingness.
A pundit once asked Sakkiya Muni, 'You are always blissful... How is it? What is the difference between you and me?'
Sakkiya Muni said, 'It is nothing else. I share bliss with others. You share sorrow with others. This only is the difference.'
The action of 'sharing with others' will make us a meaningful man.
The act of sharing our worries is an expedient to relieve ourselves from worries.
- How to find out worry and its birth place?
- Why do some other feelings similar to worry attack us?
- One can really live blissfully without worries. This is the way.
Meditation camps are only those which teach you such above-mentioned methods scientifically and at the same time easily.
People who render such services share their bliss with you. That is why they do bliss as a service. They do service blissfully.
I repeat again, worry will reduce the more and more it is shared. Bliss will increase the more and more it is shared. This is a formula for bliss.
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A meaningful incident.
In a T.V. programme on 'Elders day' a 90 year old woman was asked thus:
'Even in this age what makes you happy?' For this question she replied: 'My job'.
Surprised at this reply, the interviewer asked, 'What job is that?'
The old woman replied, 'I am looking after two women, who are older than me. When I assist them, the minutes I share with them are great. It is delightful.'
- Sharing is meditation. Sharing is nature. Sharing is bliss. Sharing is love.
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Meditation chisels. Chisel No.49.
As you love the face, love the other parts of the body as well.
If you are asked to take and throw away a very dirty thing...which one do you try to use first? Is it the fingers in the hand or the toes of the feet?
I am asking those persons who say, 'Mostly the toes of the feet.' Why? Are the feet of so low a state?
If you use the fingers of the hand you have a feeling of disgust felt by the whole body. You don't feel so when you use the toes on your feet.
Why? Think about it.
If that is so, either the toes of the feet should have become numb in your heart, or it should be a part of the body which does not command any respect.
Our body parts, towards which we are indifferent, will begin to lose their subtly fine feelings.
Those parts which are not respected by us will slowly and steadily exclude themselves from sharing our energy. Result – knee pain, leg pain, swelling of blood vessels, boils and the like.
Sharing should first of all happen within you.
Man has learnt to be indifferent and show disrespect to different parts of the body for various reasons.
Just like the face, every part of the body should be loved and should be maintained.
Parts that are not given importance are cut off from you. These parts will become small islands, which are not able to enjoy the coolness of the sea, even though they are in the middle of the sea. They do not experience and enjoy the energy of the body.
This has to come to a halt.
Your energy must be shared throughout your body. It should be irrigated.
See whether the importance you give your face, you give to all other parts of the body.
Respect those parts which have lost their respect. Energy will flow!
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