FOCUS ON YOURSELF NOT OTHERS.

 

The most important thing is to work upon yourself....!!!

What does it mean by saying working upon yourself?

Physically, just set up small goals for yourself for the next few weeks that are there. Suppose you're eighteen for the last Thirty years, when the first time when you became eighteen. 

If you did bend down, how far would you go? 

At that time, maybe it went all the way to the floor, today maybe it's like this.

just see if you can go six inches more. 

When you were eighteen years of age, how quickly you went up a staircase.

Today how you're plodding up the staircase. See if you can improve it by ten, twenty percent%. twenty percent improvement in the next two weeks. just you check your picture when you are eighteen or below, how you would stand, how straight you were and now, if you become like this, straighten yourself up a little bit!

Look further back, what kind of smile you had when you were six, eight, ten years of age. See if you can get fifty percent of that back on your face all the time.

not by simply grinning a plastic smile but bring that magic back into you. If you cannot do anything fantastic, at least you must be a pleasant piece of life on this planet.

This is something that you owe to yourself and to everybody who lives around you. This you must do.

So set up your own kind of goals and see it's not difficult, I'm telling you. this needs little attention.

Right now, people think they're carrying the world on their head. 

No no.

Just in case you're in Head Stand Pose(Yoga) right now and you take a picture and turn it around, it looks like you're carrying the planet on your head but that's not the truth.

Whether you or on your feet or on your head, planet is carrying you and it's spinning by itself. 

Day and Night is happening by itself.

Seasons are changing by itself.

Sun comes and goes by itself.

Really there's nothing to do!

These few weeks are for time for you to realize, everything that is significant in the universe is happening by itself.

It's for you to sit here and enjoy the bounty of life.

Just make use of this. Do not act like you are running the whole planet, or you are running the whole universe for that matter.

You are not!

It is happening by itself. You are a tiny little creature who's here for a little bit of time.

Don't make so much fuss about it. To handle a few years of life, do not make such a big fuss. 

These few weeks you must come out as a more pleasant and wonderful human being. This is the greatest thing you can do to yourself-if you sit here, this person is a pleasant experience for you.

If you're a pleasant experience for yourself, everybody else will also experience this person as a pleasant experience. what great things you will do or not do, that is subject to various realities. Nobody can fix it hundred percent. You must understand, our actions are largely determined by the times in which we exist. 

In other case you needs responsible behavior and responsible action.

What does responsible mean?

 Normally most human beings are in a state of compulsive reaction. responsible action means you consciously respond. Respond to what is in front of you not compulsively behave, saying that this is the way I will do things.

Conscious response.

Because responsibility means it's just your ability to respond. This is the most important thing in your life that you have retained your ability to respond to whatever comes our way.

Because what comes our way is not determined by us. 

To some extent, we can decide what comes our way, largely what comes our way is not determined by us, the world decides. But whatever comes our way, what we make out of it is one-hundred percent ours. This is the time to show who we are!

What are we made of!

Are we human beings, or are we just one more compulsive, instinctive creature?

This what is being tested right now for you. this is an evolutionary test for you.

See, it is not only for a monkey that some itch in the body may happen. Even for you it happens. If it happens you handle it. A lot of people are there, you don't do anything. When people are not there, you do it.

This is conscious response. This is an evolutionary test for you. You have to prove that you have become a human being.

Human being means one who knows how to be. This is a time for you to show you know how to be, but people are cooped up together for long hours. People who you claimed that you love immensely, seven days, getting very difficult for a lot of people. You must address this also:

Why has it become so difficult?

Why is it so difficult to be with people?

Simply because we have formed strong opinions and ideas about everybody, including ourselves. This is an important thing that you have to do, If you have to live here as a conscious human being, that is, you have no opinions of any sort.

Strong opinions means you have concluded about everything in the world. There's nothing to live here for. When you have made conclusions about everybody and everything including yourself, this means you have destroyed all possibilities of life.

Life is a possibility, but between the possibility and reality, there is a distance. In your life, will you walk the distance or not?

Do you have the courage and the commitment to walk the distance or no? This is all the question is about your life. 

I hope you answer this question, positively, because you can address this in so many ways. This happened. After the singing disaster, I'm saying after the classical music concert happened in Shankaran Pillai's home she gave up classical music because of the the comment that he gave. Then after three days, first three days classical music, next three days nothing to do, so she spent some time in front of the mirror. She looked at herself, when she got married how she looked and today how she's looking.

Because of the the planetary influence, she was taking the shape of the globe. So she stood in front of the mirror in the bedroom. Shankaran Pillai was sitting on the bed reading something.

She said, "You know how I've become, how I used to be. Every year my clothing size is going up. I'm looking ugly, look at my face, everything is sagging. My complexion is gone. I have bags under my eyes. This damn planet, it could have been slim." Shankaran Pillai kept reading. 

Said "Please say something, say something nice. say something that's good about me. I'm completely depressed looking at myself in the mirror.

Say something nice something that's good about me.

Shankaran Pillai looked up and said, "Well, your vision is perfect. Something is good about you."

So this is not a time to go about picking faults in each other, or even in yourself. You just see how every week you can be at least 

10 % better-physically

10 % better mentally

10 % better emotionally

10 % better behavior-wise

10 % better relationship wise

One week, ten percent. Thirty percent increase in everything, you will be quite a fantastic human being, believe me.