Words from the Master

You watch a TV serial and start liking a particular character. The character becomes a solid reality for you. You unconsciously start expecting to see that kind of behavior in the persons associated with you in real life.

Do you know: People even carry the image of the ‘ideal guru’ in their minds? Usually it is the image of an old man, with grey hair and a flowing beard – what you see in books and TV serials! And when they come and see me, they are unable to accept that such a young person can be a real Master! So I too face the same trouble. I too have to free people of their expectations about the Guru before they accept me!

But Swamiji, sometimes we feel that we have to chisel… like when we are handling our employees at work. What do we do then?

Do your chiseling consciously. Be aware of what you do – then you will not do more than necessary. See if your expectations of your employees are realistic. Check if there is any alternate solution. Only when it is absolutely necessary, should you try to mould the other person.

Whatever power has been given to you, learn to use it with awareness! Even anger and lust are great energies given to you by God. When you have respect for that energy, you will not waste it or misuse it.

Do we ever misuse money? You never misuse money, because you respect it. If a person does a job worth ten rupees, will you pay him one penny more? But with anger, you always ‘overpay’. If a person makes a mistake worth ‘ten rupees of anger’, you always pay him with ‘fifty rupees’ worth anger’! Is it not? Why? It is because you use your anger unconsciously, not consciously. If you use your anger consciously, it will pay off and you won’t feel guilty about it also, I assure you.

You should never get disturbed by your own anger. If you get disturbed, it means that you have you have not gone through anger with awareness; you have allowed anger to overtake you. This is the scale to see if you have used anger properly!

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.