While every word that Guruji speaks is worth - well dont know what! - here is what I cherished the most from his last night's talk (Jan 12th at Andheri Sports Complex, celebrating Youth Night, on occassion of Swami Vivekananda's birthday as well!):
Your state of life and the happiness surrounding it is determined by the share of needs you have and responsibilities you take in life. A long list of needs and wants and a relatively small list of responsibilities (like just for your own family members) that you are willing to assume is a sure-shot sign of a unhappy, dissatisfied and a grumbling life....whereas sign of a fulfiling, happy and content life is when one takes more and more responsibilities and has lesser and lesser needs for oneself!!! In fact, when you have no needs for your own self, and are only concerned about the happiness/needs of others and are willing to only assume more and more responsibilities is when you attain Siddhi (perfection, attainment....i.e. reaching closer to enlightenment!)..Now this may sound strange (that somebody who doesnt have anything, can give everything to others!) but it is true....The magic is - when you do not need anything for yourself, and are only concerned about others, you get the power to bless. Then nature also starts supporting you in unfathomable ways when you come from this space of giving and feeling responsible for others' well being rather than oneself...
So, key is.....Take Less...Give More!!!
Guruji left us with - Go home today with this confidence....that everything that you need will be provided to you by nature ....whatever little unmet desires are left .......uske liye main hoon na (I am there for that!)
Jai Gurudev!
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