Open Up Yourself!!!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar explains;

You always want joy, more energy,in life, isn't it? You want more! Anything you are given, you want more- more money, more fame, more beauty, more joy, more pleasure....This "wanting something more" keeps bugging you in your mind, and you do not look to your capabilities. More will be given to you , only if you properly utilise, what you have already! This is a law in nature. Why should nature give you more, when you are stuck with your little mind?

This tendency of wanting more is there in you- you only have to give it a twist; just turn it around- instead of " What more can I have?" start asking yourself, "What more can i do?" Then you will see that there is joy. The nature of joy is to give because you are the source of joy! The more responsibility you take on, the more energy or power will come to you.

When you have ten things to do, and even one of them goes wrong, you can keep doing the other
thing( or the ten things)- the one thing that has gone wrong, will set itself right! But, if you have only one thing to do, and that goes wrong, then you are stuck with it.

When you have the intention to do something, resources simply flow in- when they are needed....and in the amount they are needed.
There is nothing much in doing what you can do- there is no growth. Stretching a little beyond your capacity, will increase your capacity. In whatever capacity you do something for society, for the environment, for creation, that much more you progress- that much more you go further.

The technique to get depressed is to sit and only think about yourself! If you sit and think, What about me? What will happen to me"- you will get thoroughly depressed. The way to expand from individual to universal consciousness is to share the sorrow and joy of others. The way to overcome personal misery is to share universal misery. The way to expand personal joy is to share universal joy! Instead of thinking ; "What about me? What can i gain from this world?"- think; -" What can i do for the world?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is the founder of the Art of Living Foundation (1981) and the International Association for Human Values (1997). With a practice called Sudarshan Kriya, he guides us to go beyond the surface of our thoughts and emotions, and experience the essence of our true Self.