Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.
Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends.
It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.
If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.
There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.
As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?
Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe.
It's better to do something, even if you're attached to the results.
Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"
We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.
If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.
When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.
Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.
We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
