Running Driven by Fear and Greed

[Paramahamsa]

Running Driven by Fear and Greed

In the Eastern mystical tradition, you are asked to express yourself just out of your fullness. You are not made to run based on fear and greed. Some other social systems believe that man will work only out of fear and greed. This is why you are taught in your colleges and universities that you are not full, that life has some utility.

Understand that life has no utility. If you believe that life has some utility value, you will constantly be hypnotized into thinking that you are not enough unto yourself. Constantly you are taught that you are not enough. But with the eastern rishis, you are constantly taught that you are enough unto yourself. With this very idea, you can enjoy life. Life is to be lived joyfully with a fullness, not with a feeling of inadequacy.

If we understand that we are full and express our fullness, we will also become compassionate. We will attract more and more joyful things and experiences in our life. If we believe strongly that we are not enough unto ourselves and start running based on fear and greed, we will only create and attract incidents and people of the same nature. By our very nature, we will reproduce what we believe.

If anything has to survive, it should reproduce itself. If we believe our life has to be driven by fear and greed, we will reproduce that same thing in everybody. We will reproduce that same fear and greed in everyone in our life.

Children are told, ‘Do this and I will give you candy. If you don’t do this I will punish you.’ If a small child is managed based on fear and greed, it is acceptable. But, after we are 80, if we still need to be handled with fear and greed, it means we are mentally retarded! Clearly, we have not grown! A child can be handled with fear and greed, but WE don’t need fear and greed. When you ask the question, ‘What is the benefit of this action?’ you are actually asking based on fear and greed.

If you compare the crime rate, incidents of depression, etc. between the societies which are based on the attitude ‘enough’ and the societies which are based on the attitudes of ‘more and more’ or ‘what next, what next’, you will see a big difference and will understand what fear and greed can do to you.

In the Indian society, the civilization is the outcome of 10,000 years of research and development, by at least one billion inner scientists who were working with human consciousness in at least one million inner science laboratories. When I say inner science laboratories, I mean all the temples and ashrams. In India, there are one million temples and ashrams where congregation happens every day. People gather daily in at least one million inner science laboratories - temples and ashrams. The societal systems that are developed based upon the modern science and intellect, which are hardly five hundred years old, are based on the idea that we know everything and we can solve everything. People have started questioning that kind of civilization because it does not have answers for their basic problems. The problem with the intellect is that it continuously divides. Whereas the quality of emotion is that it always unites. The society that is based on the idea that we know everything or we can solve everything holds the theory that our intellect is the ultimate. These societies have started facing terrible failures.

Constantly running after something puts tremendous pressure on a person. If we understand that life is purposeless, we will realize the futility of constantly running after some goal. The pressure of running after the goal and the stress that comes out of it will simply drop.

Because of running behind goals, we have a split personality. One half of our being is thinking about the goal, the other half of our being is thinking about the path. The moment we understand that the goal is useless, we will be integrated and we will be on the path. The very path, the very life becomes liberation.

Working out of liberation is what I call working as an enlightened being, an enlightened CEO! If you are working out of liberated consciousness, you live in leader consciousness. You achieve the state of the leader.

The status of the leader is different from state of the leader. The status of the leader relates to our society, our position, our bank balances, etc. The state of the leader relates to our understanding of life. If we have this deep understanding, we will achieve the state of the leader, the ‘leader consciousness’. Man will be liberated only if he lives in leader consciousness. Read More : Guaranteed Enlightenment - Ashtavakra Gita by Paramahamsa Nithyananda