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The Paradox Of Sacrifice
All the scriptures of the world glorify sacrifice. What is sacrifice? It is giving up something that you value. You can only sacrifice that which you would like to keep for yourself; in other words, that which gives you pleasure and joy. You cannot sacrif ... -
Divine in the Form and Formless
Divinity is unmanifest, but man has an innate desire to perceive the divine in the manifest creation around him. He creates idols, breathes faith into it and requests divinity to be present in that idol for a while, so that he can worship, express his lov ... -
Strength and Subordination
Many people do not want to work under someone else, be it in their profession, in any company or even voluntary service. The general notion is that when you work under someone, you lose your freedom, you have to be answerable. So, many people opt for busi ... -
Commitment and Convenience
A commitment can only be felt when it oversteps convenience. That which is convenient, you do not call commitment. If you just go on your convenience, your commitment falls apart causing more inconvenience! If you keep dropping your commitment because it ... -
Self Confidence and Ambition
Ambition indicates lack of self-confidence! When you know you can achieve something easily, you are not ambitious about it. You are simply confident about it. Your ambition indicates challenge and uncertainty, which is contrary to self-confidence. So one ... -
The Dangers Of Belongingness and Advantages Of Obligations
Belongingness can bring about a host of negative emotions. Like demand, jealousy, unawareness and lack of gratitude. Just look into your own life, you feel more grateful to strangers than the people you feel "belong" to you. Belongingness reduce ... -
Prestige and Honor, Your Golden Cage
Honor reduces the freedom. Your fame, honor and virtue can limit your freedom. Nobody expects a good person to make a mistake. So the better person you are, the higher the expectations people have of you. It is then that you lose your freedom. Your virtue ... -
Life is a Dream, a Burden or a Joke
Often when you are happy you feel life is a dream because you do not believe in the reality of it. When there is misery you feel life as a burden. And we take trivial things very seriously. But one who has really gone through the pleasure realizes that pl ... -
Doing Trivial Things
What is that you can do for eternity? Definitely not anything that is big or great because it needs effort and effort tires you. So, it is a temporary state. If you can think of one thing that is way below your capacity to do and agree to do it for eterni ... -
Joy and Sorrow
The inability to experience joy and sorrow is inertia. Experiencing joy and sorrow is a trait of consciousness. Being happy in one's own joy and sad in one's own sorrow is a trait of animals. Being happy at another's joy and saddened by ano ...