"Everybody is unique. Don't try to mould all dispositions alike" - Sri Amma Bhagavan
SRI AMMA BHAGAVAN: "Love begins with oneself.
You are a stranger unto yourself. You are not awake to the joys and pains of your life.You are a divided house as 'should be' and 'should not be'; as the 'good' and the 'bad'.
This perceived division has led to conflicting emotions about yourself and perpetrates around the world around you."
Bhagavan, it was said that, one should love oneself. What is the need for us to love oneself?
When we say love yourself, see all of you have got what we might call a negative self also. There is a negative side to all of you, which western psychologists will call the ‘Shadow Self’. We will call it the negative side, because there is a slight difference in the term and contents. Now each of you, for example have you not spoken lies? So many lies, average lies per day is sixty- any human being. But would you like to accept that you are a liar? No. And sometimes planned lies, because survival. I am not blaming you. I am just telling what is happening there. But then would you like to see that? You don’t like to see it. Would you like that aspect? No, you don’t like it. And you say oh I love you so much. I wish all the blessings for you; inside, full of hatred. So inside there is lot of fear, but appear to be very brave. You talk very bravely, but only fear inside. So for all the so called images that you are giving, there is a negative counterpart.There cannot be anything without a negative counterpart. You have jealousy, anger, hatred, violence, lust. You put it into the most peaceful man in the world, while you will be plotting his death and secretly hoping a lorry will go over him, he will be destroyed. But say, I wish you good luck. This negative side, you have put under the carpet and it is hiding there, which is unconscious. There it is stinking. From there it is creating all the trouble for you. When we say love yourself, we are telling love ‘That’. Love that asingam no? the terrible thing. You are hating it. You are hating it, you are afraid of it, you dislike it, you pretend it’s not there. It is like getting married to some lady somewhere and saying, 'I don’t know about her, she is not my wife'.
Similarly it is all there, this side is yours. No human being can be on this planet without this negative side. It is just not possible. So who are the great people? The Mahatma Gandhis and let us say the Ramanas, the Budhaas. What is their basic journey? They know it is there and they accept it and they love it. Whereas you, you don’t see it, you don’t accept it, you don’t love it. You are running away from it all the time or pretending it is not there. So the journey on spirituality is the first and most important journey is you dig up all these things. Remove the carpet, bring it out. It is so, that’s all. You are helpless, powerless people. Nobody has got any power anything. We only imagine we have got. It is there. It is dominating you. It is crushing you. So, that is what is happening. So, you must dig up and come to terms with it. We can’t do anything about it because that contamination is there. The air is contaminated, consciousness is contaminated. It is there. You are only pretending as though it is not there. And the journey of spirituality is you first say yes, I am this and confront it. And then you see a miracle will take place. That miracle you find out what it is. So this is what we mean when we say love yourself. All this dirt, this muck, which nobody likes- when you don’t like it, when you are even afraid of it, how will you love it? But then it is possible to love it and say yes, it is so. It is there, what can you do about it? You can’t do anything about it. So that is what we mean by saying love yourself".
- Sri Bhagavan
YOU MAY SEE THIS VIDEO OF SRI BHAGAVAN TALKING:
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This week's Webcast Teaching of Sri Bhagavan to contemplate:
The Awakened One knows that the world governs itself; the unawakened one thinks the world must be governed - Sri Bhagavan
Warm Regards,
A family in ONENESS, of ONENESS, by ONENESS and Committed to world ONENESS
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