Shraddha is Tapas🔗

Work leads to purification of the mind.

Whatever work and responsibility you take up, the energy starts expressing accordingly. Whatever load you take on you, and whatever responsibility you take up on you, you will see that your inner space will expand and the energy flows through you!

All you need is just two things: trust that life is good and trust that you expand to the responsibilities that you take up. When that expansion happens have patience during the transformation process. Patience during the transformation process is what I call Tapas.

There is a beautiful phrase of Shirdi Sai Baba's teachings: 'Shraddha' and 'Suboori' – Trust and Patience. This is the essence of life. Trust that you can expand in your life. You expand for all the responsibilities and commitments you take up. Have patience when the expansion or the transformation is happening in your inner space. Nothing else needs to be done.

Trust and Patience. But we seldom have either trust or patience. That is why we just reproduce the same past into our future.

Why we don't allow big breakthroughs in our life? Because we don't trust life leads us into a new space. Just like that seed, we are afraid we may lose what we have.

Shraddha does not only mean faith. It is faith plus the courage to experiment with the truth. The courage to experiment with what you believe, that is what is called Shraddha. With Shraddha you will never fail, but with faith there is a possibility that you may fail.

When you just have faith, and don't have the courage to experiment with the truth, you will go to the restaurant, read the menu card and go away. You may miss eating, you may never taste the food, and you may never experience it. But when you have Shraddha with sincerity there is no chance of you missing the truth. A person can never miss when he has got Shraddha with sincerity.

Swami Vivekananda, says beautifully, 'instead of knowing the whole library just know five concepts with Shraddha. Experiment with these five concepts. Let the five concepts become your life, that is enough, nothing else is necessary.

Instead of having the whole library in your head, have the five concepts in your heart. Shraddha can transform your whole life. Whatever you believe even if you believe in atheism, no problem. But if you have Shraddha, if you add sincerity to the concept, you will achieve the ultimate.