Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me and if I don't complete my task, if I don't do this perfectly, then what about them? They'll suffer.
Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.
Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.
Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.
If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.
Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.
The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.
In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.
Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.
If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.
The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.
Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.
I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!
In the big picture we are all eternal.
Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.
The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.
The difficult opponent is the best.
Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!
Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?
